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BRITISH MUSEUM.
BEG.
Ordered, by The House of Commons, to be Printed,
2 May 1916.
LONDON:
PRINTED UNDER THE AUTHORITY OF HIS MAJESTY’S
STATIONERY OFFICE
By JAS. TRUSCOTT & SON, LTD., CANNON STREET, E.C,
To be purchased, either directly or through any Bookseller, from
WYMAN & SONS, LTD., 29, BREAMS BUILDINGS, FETTER LANE, E.C., and
28, ABINGDON STREET, 8.W., and 54, St. Mary STREET, CARDIFF ; or
H.M.STATIONERY OFFICE (ScorrisH BRANCH), 23, FORTH STREET, EDINBURGH; or
E. PONSONBY, Lrp., 116, GRarron STREET, DUBLIN;
or from the Agencies in the British Colonies and Dependencies,
the United States of America and other Foreign Countries of
T. FISHER UNWIN, Lrp., Lonpon, W.C.
1916.
68 Price 53d.
BRITISH MUSEUM,
RETURN to an Order of the Honourable The House of Commons,
dated 16 February, 1916; for,
COPY ‘of Account of the Income and ExpEenpITURE of
the Britis Museum (SpreciaL Trusr Funps) for
the Year ending the 3lst day of March 1916; and;
Return of the Number of PrErsons admitted to visit
the Musrum and the British Musrum (Natura
History) in each Year from 1910 to 1915, both Years
inclusive ; together with a STATEMENT of the PRoGREss
made in the ARRANGEMENT and Descrirprion of the
CoLLECcTIONS, and an Account of Osvsects added to
them in the Year 1915.”
Treasury Date a E. S. MONTAGU.
2 May 1916
(Mr. Lewis Harcourt.)
Ordered, by The House of Commons, to be Printed,
2 May 1916.
TAOPNEDO UNG:
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STATIONERY OFFICE
By JAS. TRUSCOTIT & SON, LTD., CANNON STREET, E.C.
To be purchased, either directly or through any Bookseller, from
WYMAN & SONS, LID., 29, BREAMS BUILDINGS, FETTER LANE, E.C., and
28, ABINGDON STREET, 8.W., and 54, St. MARY STREET, CARDIFF; or
H.M. STATIONERY OFFICE (SCOTTISH BRANCH), 23, FORTH STREET, EDINBURGH ; or
E. PONSONBY, LTD., 116, GRAFTON STREET, DUBLIN;
or from the Agencies in the British Colonies and Dependencies,
the United States of America and other Foreign Countries of
T. FISHER UNWIN, LONDON, W.C.
68 Price 5$d.
JAN 1967
XN
CONTENTS.
BRITISH MUSEUM.
ACCOUNTS (SPECIAL TRUST FUNDS, 1915-1916):
BRIDGEWATER = = és u e
FARNBOROUGH = = s = 2
SWINEY - = E 5 is E a
BIRCH = 2 = = » & E,
CHARLES DRURY EDWARD FORTNUM -
CARCHEMISH EXCAVATIONS) - = =
NUMBERS OF PERSONS ADMITTED :
BRITISH MUSEUM - - : .
BRITISH MuszEUM (NATURAL History)
HOURS OF ADMISSION :
BRITISH MUSEUM - :
BRITISH MUSEUM (NATURAL History)
GENERAL STATEMENT OF PROGRESS :
VISITORS - - - -
READING ROOM AND NEWSPAPER Room
OFFICIAL GUIDES - = 2 - =
THE WAR—PROTECTIVE MEASURES =
MILITARY SERVICE OF THE STAFF -
PRINCIPAL ACQUISITIONS : = =
PUBLICATIONS - - - - = =
ARRANGEMENT OF COLLECTIONS, &c.:
PRINTED BOOKS - - - - -
MANUSCRIPTS - - - - -
ORIENTAL PRINTED BOOKS AND MSS. -
PRINTS AND DRAWINGS - - - :
ORIENTAL PRINTS AND DRAWINGS =
EGYPTIAN ANTIQUITIES - - - -
ASSYRIAN ANTIQUITIES - - - -
GREEK AND ROMAN ANTIQUITIES - =
BRITISH AND MEDIAMVAL ANTIQUITIES -
COINS AND MEDALS - - - -
ACQUISITIONS :
NEWSPAPERS - - - - - s
PRINTED BOOKS - - - - -
Maps - - - - - - -
Music - - - - - - -
MANUSCRIPTS - - - - -
ORIENTAL PRINTED BOOKS AND MSS. =
PRINTS AND DRAWINGS - - - -
ORIENTAL PRINTS AND DRAWINGS -
EGYPTIAN ANTIQUITIES - - - -
ASSYRIAN ANTIQUITIES - - = =
GREEK AND ROMAN ANTIQUITIES - -
PREHISTORIC, EARLY BRITISH AND OTHER ANTIQUITIES
CERAMIC AND GLASS OBJECTS -
ORIENTAL AND ETHNOGRAPHICAL Oeunere
ADDED TO THE CHRISTY COLLECTION)
COINS AND MEDALS = = 4 te
(INCLUDING
THOSE
BRITISH MUSEUM (NATURAL HISTORY.)
3
GENERAL STATEMENT OF PROGRESS :
VISITORS - -
SWINEY LECTURES -
MUSEUMS ASSOCIATION
THE WAR =
HIBERNATION OF THE HOUSE FLY
PROTECTION OF ANIMALS
INVESTIGATION OF ANTARCTIC
STRANDED WHALES
BEQUESTS AND GIFTS
PRINCIPAL PURCHASES
DUPLICATES -
PUBLICATIONS -
INDEX MUSEUM -
ECONOMIC ZOOLOGY
ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY
ARRANGEMENT AND CONSERVATION OF COLLECTIONS :
ZOOLOGY - -
ENTOMOLOGY -
GEOLOGY - =
MINERALOGY -
BoTANY - -
ACQUISITIONS :
ZOOLOGY - -
ENTOMOLOGY -
GEOLOGY - -
MINERALOGY -
BOTANY - -
WHALES
DUPLICATES AND EXCHANGKHS :
ZOOLOGY - -
ENTOMOLOGY -
GEOLOGY - -
MINERALOGY -
BOTANY - “
LIBRARIES:
GENERAL - -
ZOOLOGICAL -
ENTOMOLOGICAL
GEOLOGICAL -
MINERALOGICAL
BOTANICAL -
PUBLICATIONS, DEPARTMENTAL:
ZOOLOGY - =
ENTOMOLOGY -
GEOLOGY - -
BOTANY - -
STUDENTS :
ZOOLOGY - E
ENTOMOLOGY -
GEOLOGY - =
MINERALOGY -
BOTANY - =
INVESTIGATION :
MINERALOGICAL
BOTANICAL -
DEMONSTRATIONS:
GEOLOGY - -
BOTANY - =
IMPERIAL BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY -
INDEX GENERUM ET SPECIERUM ANIMALIUM
102
108
109
100
106
110
101
108
100
110
86
63
4 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
I.—AN ACCOUNT of the Recerprs and EXPENDITURE of the
STOCK,
CASH. 24% Consols.
Be sad, Bo er ae
To BALANCES on the 1st April 1915 - - Sy) ae © ee 13,659 3 2
— DIVIDENDS received on 13,6597. 3s. 2d. Stock
in 24 per Cent. Consols, bequeathed
by the Earl of Bridgewater, viz. :
On the 5th April 1915 Fl eae hey fe
mi 5th July 1915 - - Soe
ss 5th October 1915 - Sou 4:
“6 5th January 1916 - 85 7 4
———. 341 9 4
— RENT OF A REAL ESTATE, Whitchurch,
bequeathed by the Har! of Bridgewater (less
charges) - - - 23 13 8
£.582 17 1 136599 1s 2
II.—AN ACCOUNT of the Receipts and EXPENDITURE of the
STOCK,
CASH, 24% Consols.
Se Sands: En OAS
. TO BALANCES on the Ist April 1915 - - = 84 13 0 2,879 10° 7
—. DIVIDENDS received on 2,8791. 10s. 7d. Stock in
21 per Cent. Consols, bequeathed by
Lord Farnborough, viz. :
On the 5th April 1915 = CLL omy
,, 5th July 1915 - - Wey TS) al
‘5 5th October 1915 - ie ke) Dl
» Sth January, 1916 - 17 19 11
——— 7119 8
£.156 12 .8 2,879 10: 7
III.—AN ACCOUNT of the Receipts and EXPENDITURE of the
STOCK,
CASH. 24% Consols.
Lots. as Foe Po els
To BALANCES on the Ist April 1915 - - - YS uh a 5,744 - 8
— DIVIDENDS received on 5,744/. - 8d. Stock in
24 per Cent. Consols, bequeathed by
Dr. George Swiney for Lectures on
Geology, viz. :
On the 5th April 1915 = Gee oo dS
» oth July 1915 - - Bia) JUS) =
» oth October 1915, - 35 18 —
- 5th January 1916 - 35 18 —
‘£.160 3 1 5,744 -— 8
ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
BRIDGEWATER FUND, from the 1st April 1915 to the 31st March 1916.
By One Year’s SALARY of the Egerton Librarian = -
— BALANOES
ON
THE
carried to Account for 1916-1917
31ST
MARCH
1916,
CASH.
Hie St ds
175 =
AW Uy At
£.582 17 1
STOCK,
23% Consols.
Lay Sid:
13,659 3 2
13,659 3 2
FARNBOROUGH FUND, from the 1st April 1915 to the 31st March 1916.
By AMOUNT expended in purchase of Manuscripts. -
— BALANCES
ON
THE 3187
carried to Account for 1916-1917 -
MARCH
1916,
CASH.
eS as
5210 -—
104 2 8
£.156 12 8
STOCK,
24% Consols.
£0 sede
2,879 10 7
2,879 10 7
SWINEY FUND, from the 1st April 1915 to the 31st March 1916.
By AMOUNT paid to Dr. J. D. Falconer, for Lectures
on Geology in 1915 -
— BALANCES
carried to Account for 1916-1917
ON
THE
31ST
MARCH
1916,
CASH.
ye sr de
140 - -
STOCK,
24% Consols.
PS Sea ttakat ses
6 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
IV.—AN ACCOUNT of the ReEcEIrts and EXPENDITURE of
STOCK,
CASH. 24% Consols.
Bsa Gye Be Sse.
To BALANCE on the Ist April 1915 - - 565 3 9
— DIVIDENDS received. on 565/. 3s. 9d. Stock in
24 per Cent. Consols, bequeathed
by Dr. Birch in 1766, for the three
Under Librarians of the British
Museum, viz. :
On the 5th April1915_—- -£.3 10 8
5 5th July 1915 - - 310 8
3 5th October 1916 - =o 10) 38
3 5th January 1916 - a) ay UO)
14 2 8
AY 2S 565 3 9
V.—AN ACCOUNT of the Recrrprs and EXPENDITURE of the bequest
1st April 1915 to
To BALANGE on the Ist April1915- - - ‘= =. = Baie
VIL.—AN ACCOUNT of the REcEIPTS and EXPENDITURE of the
1st April 1915 to
CASH.
Bes. ae
To BALANCE on the Ist April 1915 - - - - - - - 488 14 1
&. 488) 1
ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 7
the BIRCH FUND from the 1st April 1915 to the 31st March 1916.
STOCK,
CASH. 24% Consols.
Bey VS Esa: Liv gee.
By LrEq@acy paid to the three Under Librarians of
the British Museum, whose offices existed
in 1766, viz., the Keepers of the Departments
of Printed Books, Manuscripts, and Natural
History - - - - - - - - 1a 28
— BALANCE ON THE 31st MARrcH 1916, carried
to Account for 1916-1917 - - - - — 565 3 9
£.14 2 8 HOoOMEnS
of the late MR. CHARLES DRURY EDWARD FORTNUM from the
the 31st March 1916.
CASH.
£. 3. 4
By AMOUNT transferred to H.M. Paymaster-General in aid of the
Parliamentary Vote, 1915-1916 - - - - - 875 - -
- BALANCE ON THE 31st MaRcH 1916, carried to heres for
1916-1917 - - - - - - - - - - 1,840 - —-
BTS) =. -
CARCHEMISH EXCAVATIONS FUND from the
the 31st March 1916.
CasH
i &. 3. a
By AMOUNT expended on Excavations - *400 - -
— BALANCE on the 31st March 1916, carried to ecant fon 1916- 1917 Sow lea
£.488 14 1
* Including 200/. advance not yet accounted for by the Explorer.
Frederic G. Kenyon,
Director and Principal Librarian.
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The British Museum, Bloomsbury (including the Departments
of Printed Books and Maps, Manuscripts, Oriental Printed Books
and Manuscripts, Prints and Drawings, Egyptian and Assyrian
Antiquities, Greek and Roman Antiquities, British and Medieval
Antiquities and Ethnography, and Coins and Medals) is normally
open to the public free daily (except on Good Friday and
Christmas Day and days of Public Fast or Thanksgiving) as
follows :—
On Werxpays from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
After 4 p.m. in January, February, November, December,
and after 5 p.m. in March, September, October, only certain
of the galleries remain open, viz. :-—
Exhibitions of Manuscripts, Printed
On Monpays ; : :
: Books, Prints and Drawings, Porcelain,
coo Glass and Majolica ; Prehistoric, British,
F : Anglo-Saxon, Medieval and Hthno-
RIDAYS.
graphical Collections.
Egyptian, Assyrian, Greek and Roman
On Tuxspays, Galleries; Gold Ornament Room,
ee ek American, Prehistoric, British, Anglo-
g Saxon Collections, and the Waddesdon
ATURDAYS.
Bequest Room.
On SunpAay AFTERNOONS :—
From 2 to 4 p.m. in January, February, November,
December.
Ee Agee 45) so on ocuouer.
» 2 5 930 ,, ,, March, September.
ye eee » 9» April, May, June, July, August.
Persons applying for the purposes of research and reference
are admitted to the Reading Room under certain regulations every
weekday, except the days specified below, from 9 a.m. until 7 p.m.
The Newspaper Room is open, under similar regulations, from
10 a.m. until 5 p.m.
The Reading Room, Newspaper Room, and Students’ Rooms
in the Library and Department of Manuscripts are closed on
Sundays, Good Friday, Christmas Day, and the first four week-
days in March and September.
ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. Pe
Other Students’ Rooms are closed on Sundays, Good Friday,
and Christmas Day, and occasionally for cleaning.
Students are admitted generally to the several Departments
on weekdays, from 10 till 4 or 5 o'clock; and to the Sculpture
Galleries from 9 o’clock to the hour of closing.
At present, however, the provision for keeping the galleries
open having been suspended by His Majesty’s Government in the
interests of economy, the Exhibition Galleries are wholly closed to
the public. The Reading Room is open to Students from 9 a.m.
to 5 p.m., the Newspaper Room and Manuscript Students’ Room
from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., on every weekday except Good Friday,
Christmas Day, and the first four weekdays in March and Sep-
tember.
British cereal Frederic G. Kenyon,
1 April 1916. Director and Principal Librarian.
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ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 13
The Exhibition Galleries of the British Museum (Natural
History), Cromwell Road, South Kensington, including the Depart-
ments of Zoology, Entomology, Geology and Paleontology,
Mineralogy, and Botany, are open to the public (with certain
restrictions due to the need for economy) free, daily, except Good
Friday and Christmas Day, and days of Public Fast or Thanks-
giving.
The regulations at present in force are as under :—
The GALLERIES are open to the puBLIC, free, as follows :—
Weexk-Days.
Daily.— Central Hall (Special Exhibits), North Hall (Domesti-
cated Animals, &c.), Bird Gallery, Upper and Lower Mammal
Galleries, Shell Gallery, and Botanical Gallery.
On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays——Fossil Mammal
Gallery, Fossil Reptile Gallery, and Mineral Gallery. (Hastern
side.
33 Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays.—Coral Gallery, Star-
fish Gallery, Reptile Gallery, Insect Gallery, Fish Gallery, and
Whale Room. (Western side.)
SUNDAYS.
Central Hall, North Hall, Bird Gallery, Mammal Galleries
(including Whale Room), Fossil Mammal Gallery, Fossil Reptile
Gallery, and Mineral Gallery.
The Hours of Admission are :—
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VIII. GerneraL Progress at THE MuskumM, BLoomspury.
The first complete year of war naturally shows a reduction in
the number of visitors to the Museum as compared with the
exceptionally high figures of 1913 and the first seven months of
1914. The absence of Continental and American visitors and of
holiday tourists in general was bound to make itself evident in these
returns. On the other hand, the use of the Museum by our own
people has been more than fully maintained. The total number of
visits for the year 1915 was 733,091 (680,000 on week-days and
53,091 on Sundays), which is a figure slightly in advance of the
total for 1911, and slightly below those for 1910 and 1912, all of
which were years in which London enjoyed a normal influx of
foreign visitors and holiday tourists.
A marked feature in the use of the Museum was the number of
soldiers who visited the galleries, including many from the Overseas
Dominions.
The visits of students to particular departments showed more
reduction than the visits of the general public to the exhibition
galleries. The visitors to the Reading Room numbered 178,410 as
compared with 224,560, to the Newspaper Room 12,650 as
compared with 16,704, to the other departments 24,984 as compared
with 31,949. After deducting these figures from the general totals,
it will be found that the visits to the public exhibition galleries were
greatly in excess of those in any of the seven years preceding 1913.
The lectures of the Official Guides were well attended through-
out the year. Some special lectures were given to Belgian
refugees.
In continuation of the measures taken in the first months of the
war, a considerable number of the more valuable objects in the
collections were removed to places of greater safety. Among these
were the statues from the pediments of the Parthenon and certain
other sculptures of special value ; while the metopes and frieze of
the Parthenon, and the greater part of the Assyrian bas-reliefs, have
received special protection im situ. In some cases casts and
reproductions were substituted for originals in the public galleries.
The transference of the collections to King Edward the Seventh’s
Galleries, and the re-arrangement of the rooms in the older parts of
the Museum, have been very greatly delayed by the necessity for
economies in labour and the difficulty of obtaining materials.
Nevertheless some progress has been made in the re-arrangement of
the Department of British and Medizval Antiquities, as described
below. |
A corridor connecting the north-east staircase of the old building
(near the King’s Library) with the Ground Floor Gallery of the
new building has been completed, and will be available when the
latter Gallery is opened to the public.
The only publications have been works which were in hand
before the outbreak of war, and which it was more economical to
complete and issue than to suspend.
GENERAL PROGRESS AT THE MUSEUM. 15
Reductions of staff have continued throughout the year, and no
man has been held back from volunteering for military duty unless
his services were essential for the maintenance of the work of the
Museum. At the end of the year 99 members of the staff at
Bloomsbury and 52 at the Natural History Museum had gone on
military service, 38 at Bloomsbury and 12 at the Natural History
Museum had been attested under the Derby scheme, and 20 at
Bloomsbury and 13 at the Natural History Museum had been
rejected as medically unfit.
The suspension of the purchase-grant (with the exception of a
sum devoted to the purchase of foreign books and periodicals for the
Library) has greatly affected the accessions, though the full falling
off will not be visible until the next year, since the suspension did
not come into effect until April, 1915, and several outstanding
purchases were completed by means of the reserve accumulated in
times of peace. The number of separate objects incorporated in the
collections of the several Departments during the year 1915 is as
follows :—
Printed Books :
Books and Pamphlets ae isha - - =) 26,35 1
Serials and Parts of Volumes’ - ~ ~ - 61,538
Maps and Atlases - - - - - - 1,942
Music - - - - - - - =P 10.720
Newspapers (single numbers) = - - - - 278,924
Miscellaneous - - - - - - - RAST
Manuscripts and Seals - - - - - 2,650
Oriental Printed Books and Manuscripts - - 2,041
Prints and Drawings - - - - - 3,019
. Gunial) - - - - 1,138
Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities - - - 88
Greek and Roman Antiquities - - - - 66
British and Medizval Antiquities - - - - 1,322
Coins and Medals - - - - - - 3,655
Total - - - - - 399,685
The principal acquisitions will be found indicated in the
‘Departmental reports which follow, though these reports are given
on a less extensive scale than usual, in the interests of economy.
Special recognition is due to the friends of the Museum whose
liberality has, in several instances, enabled the Trustees to take
advantage of opportunities which otherwise would have been missed
through the suspension of the purchase grant. Five collections of
considerable importance have been acquired in the course of the
year, namely the Sale bequest of water colour drawings (notable for
its fine examples of David Cox, but very comprehensive in other
directions also) ; a selection from the Ransom collection of British
and other antiquities, in which the most conspicuous single object is
the remarkable 12th cent. bronze bowl, engraved with scenes from
the life of St. Thomas ; the Whitcombe Greene collection of
16 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
Renaissance plaquettes ; the Evans collection of English coins ;
and the Prideaux collection of Oriental coins. Of single objects,
special attention may be called to the autograph MSS. of several
poems by A. C. Swinburne; to a Diirer drawing of peculiar
importance ; to two early German woodcuts from the Leigh Sotheby
collection ; to the clay cylinders of Sennacherib and Esarhaddon ;
to the royal guitar of Uganda, formerly presented by Sir F. Lugard
to Mr. Joseph Chamberlain ; and to a number of rare coins.
The Parliamentary grant for the issue of reproductions of works
of art to Art Schools and similar institutions has been suspended for
the period of the war.
The following are the publications issued by the Departments at
Bloomsbury during the year :—
Bronze Reliefs from the Gates of Shalmaneser, king of Assyria,
B.C. 860-825. Hdited by L. W. King, M.A., Litt.D. With
80 plates. 4to. Il. 15s.
Select Bronzes, Greek, Roman, and Etruscan, in the Departments
of Antiquities. 73 plates. With a commentary by H. B. Walters,
MoAL Sia. Ato, 1 TGs:
Catalogue of the Engraved Gems of the Post-Classical Periods
in the Department of British and Medieval Antiquities and
Hthnography in the British Museum. By O. M. Dalton, M.A.
Ato. il. 5s.
Select Italian Medals of the Renaissance in the British Museum.
Illustrated on 50 plates. Portfolio. 8s. 6d.
List of Catalogues of English Book Sales, 1676-1900, now in
the British Museum. 8vo. 12s. 6d.
The Codex Alexandrinus (Royal MS. 1 D v-vili) in reduced
photographic facsimile. Old Testament. Part I. Genesis—Ruth.
Ato. Portfolio. 11. 15s.
Schools of Illumination. Reproductions from Manuscripts in
the British Museum. Part IJ. English: 12th and 13th centt.
15 plates. Folio. 17s. 6d.
Miscellaneous Coptic Texts in the Dialect of Upper Egypt.
(Coptic Texts. Vol. V.). Hdited, with English Translations, by
HK. A. Wallis Budge, M.A., Litt. D. With 40 plates and 20 illustra-
tions in the text. 8vo. 21.
Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan MSS. in the British
Museum. By G. Margoliouth, M.A. Part III. Sections VIII, IX.
Miscellaneous MSS. ; Charters. 4to. Il. 17s. 6d.
Set of 10 plates illustrating Part III. of a Catalogue of
Hebrew and Samaritan MSS. 4to. 8s.
Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan MSS. in the British
Museum. By G. Margoliouth, M.A. Part III., complete (Sections
I-IX, and 10 plates). 4to. 51.
Supplementary Catalogue of Marathi and Gujarati Books in the
British Museum. By J. F. Blumhardt, M.A. 4to. Il. 12s. 6d.
Catalogue of Drawings by Dutch and Flemish Artists preserved
in the Department of Prints and Drawings, British Museum.
Vol. I. Drawings by Rembrandt and his School. 8vo. 12s.
British Museum, Frederic G. Kenyon,
1 April 1916. Director and Principal Librarian.
DEPARTMENT OF PRINTED BOOKS. 17
ITX.—PROGRESS made in the ARRANGEMENT AND DESCRIPTION
OF THE COLLECTIONS, AND ACCOUNT OF OBJECTS ADDED
TO THEM in the Year 1915 (Bloomsbury).
DEPARTMENT OF PRINTED Books.
I. Arrangement.—The works added to the collection during the
past year have, as far as possible, been placed on the shelves of the
Library according to the system of classification adopted in the
Museum.
The press-marks, indicating their respective localities, have been
marked on the inside and affixed to the back of each volume.
The total number of these press-marks amounts to 65,731 ; in
addition to which 57,971 press-marks have been altered, on books
and in the catalogues, in consequence of changes and re-arrange-
ments carried out in the Library; 23,259 labels have been affixed
to books and volumes of newspapers, and 84,898 obliterated labels
have been renewed.
The number of stamps impressed upon articles received is
398,237.
3,864 presses of books and newspapers have been dusted in the
course of the year.
II. Catalogues.— Cataloguing.—42,663 titles have been written
for the General Catalogue and for the Catalogues of Maps and
Music.
Printing.—29,176 titles and index-slips for the General Cata-
logue, 2,495 for the Map Catalogue, and 2,330 for the Music
Catalogue, have been printed during the year.
Incorporation.— General Catalogue.—29,092 title-slips and
index-slips have been incorporated into each of the three copies of
this Catalogue. This has rendered it necessary, in order to maintain
as far as possible the alphabetical arrangement, to re-arrange 45,627
title-slips and index-slips in each copy and to add to each copy 621
new leaves.
The system of fortnightly incorporation of accessions was carried
out regularly until March, after which date it was replaced by a
system of monthly incorporation.
Map Catalogue.—3,011 titles have been written for this Cata-
logue, and 2,489 title-slips have been incorporated into each of
three copies of it. This has rendered it necessary to re-arrange
1,766 title-slips in each copy and to add to each copy 16 new
leaves.
Music Catalogue-—11,737 titles have been written for this
Catalogue, and 4,021 title-slips have been incorporated into each
of two copies of it. This has rendered it necessary to re-arrange
4,109 title-slips in each copy and to add to each copy 97 new leaves.
B
18 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
Shelf Catalogue-—For this Catalogue, in which the title-slips,
mounted on cards, are arranged in order of press-marks, 24,625
have been so mounted and 55,121 have been incorporated in their
proper order.
Catalogue of Books printed in the X Vth Century.—Progress was
made early in the year with Part IV. of this Catalogue, and the
section dealing with Subiaco and Rome was passed through the
press. Work on the Catalogue was then discontinued.
III. Binding.—The number of volumes and sets of pamphlets
sent to be bound in the course of the year was 19,344, including
5,087 volumes of newspapers. In consequence of the frequent
adoption of the plan of binding two or more volumes in one, the
number of volumes returned was 11,724. In addition, 735 volumes
have been repaired in the binders’ shops.
Besides this, the following binding work has been done in the
Library itself :—4,006 volumes have been repaired, 9,089 cleaned
and polished, and 4,597 volumes of reports, parts of periodicals, &c.,
have been bound in a light style of binding.
The following maps, &c., have also been bound or mounted
during the year :—68 volumes of the 6-inch and 25-inch Ordnance
Survey have been bound; in addition, 176 parts of the 1-inch
Ordnance Survey and 400 general maps have been mounted on
linen in 1,203 sheets, and 350 maps have been mounted on cards in
421 sheets.
46,882 numbers of Colonial Newspapers have been made up
into 1,221 parcels, and 1,278 parcels have been tied up and labelled.
37 volumes of the General Catalogue have been broken up and
re-bound in 39 volumes. 370 columns have been re-laid, owing to
the accumulation of titles under certain headings. 21 volumes of
the Music Catalogue have been re-bound in 22 new volumes.
IV. Reading Room Service.—The number of volumes replaced in
the General Library after use in the Reading Room was 581,319 ;
in the King’s Library, 17,927 ; in the Grenville Library, 1,991 ; in
the Map Room 4,625 ; in the presses in which books are kept from
day to day for the use of readers, 635,112; and in the Oriental
Department, 2,359 ; making a total of 1,243,333 volumes supplied
to readers during the year, exclusive of those to which the readers
have personal access on the shelves of the Reading Room.
The number of readers during the year was 178,410, giving an
average of 588 daily, the room having been open 303 days.
Newspaper Room.—The number of readers during the year was
12,650, giving a daily average of 42, the room having been open on
303 days. The number of volumes replaced after use was 43,541,
giving a daily average of 144, not reckoning volumes taken from
the shelves of the Newspaper Room by the readers themselves. In
addition, 1,389 country newspapers were brought up to the Library
from the Repository at Hendon for the use of readers.
DEPARTMENT OF PRINTED BOOKS. 19
Map Room.—380 students were admitted to the Map Room.
Photography.—There were 262 applications for leave to photo-
graph from books in the Library, and 712 volumes were supplied
for this purpose.
V. Accessions—General Library.—26,351 complete volumes
and pamphlets have been added to the General Library during the
year. Of these, 4,914 were presented ; 14,319 received by Copy-
right ; 377 by Colonial Copyright ; 830 by International Exchange ;
and 5,911 acquired by purchase.
61,538 parts or volumes of serial publications and of works in
progress have been added to the General Library. Of these, 3,172
were presented ; 41,180 received by Copyright ; 391 by Colonial
Copyright ; 1,024 by International Exchange ; and 15,771 acquired
by purchase.
Maps.—84 atlases, 98 parts of atlases, and 1,760 maps in 6,921
sheets have been added to the collection during the year. Of these,
27 atlases, 62 parts of atlases, and 1,107 maps were presented ; 34
atlases and 612 maps received by Copyright ; 15 atlases and 26
maps by Colonial Copyright ; and 8 atlases, 36 parts of atlases and
15 maps acquired by purchase.
Music.—10,720 musical publications have been added to the
collection during the year. Of these, 2 books were presented ;
9,273 books and pieces and 1,046 parts were received by Copyright ;
351 pieces by Colonial Copyright ; and 15 books and 33 parts
acquired by purchase.
Newspapers.—The number of newspapers published in the
United Kingdom, received under the provisions of the Copyright
Act during the year, was 3,215, comprising 216,516 single
numbers. Tifteen sets, comprising 2,555 single numbers, were
received by Colonial Copyright ; 371 sets, comprising 43,319 single
numbers, of colonial and foreign newspapers have been presented ;
and 92 sets, comprising nine volumes and 16,534 single numbers,
of current colonial and foreign newspapers have been purchased.
Miscellaneous.—5,431 articles not included in the foregoing
paragraphs have been received in the Department. These consist of
Parliamentary Papers, single sheets, and other miscellaneous items.
The total number of articles anime cared above as having been
received in the Department during the year, exclusive of newspapers,
is 105,982.
Donations.
The following is a list of the more important donations received
during the year :—
TTept Xapihaov Tpixovry. 9 vols. Presented by P. Ralli, Esq.
Acta Capitulorum Generalium. Vol. 1. 1318-1593. Hdidit
F. G. Wessels. Presented by the Rev. B. Zimmerman.
20 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
Illustrated Catalogue of the Pictures in the Collection of
P. A. B. Widener. Presented by P. A. B. Widener, Esq.
Original Drawings by the Old Masters. The Collection formed
by J. G. Cogswell, 1786-1871. 1915. Presented by M. L. Schiff,
sq.
"The Barbizon School of Painters, by David Croal Thomson,
1890. Presented by D. C. Thomson, Esq.
The Royal Commission on the Losses and Services of American
Loyalists, 1783-1785. Hdited by H. H. Egerton, 1915. Presented
by Mrs. Whitelaw Reid.
The Wedderburn Book, 1296-1896, by Alexander Wedderburn.
Vols. 1, 2. Presented by A. Wedderburn, Esq.
L’Astronomie Nautique au Portugal, par Joaquim Bensaude.
Presented by J. Bensaude, [sq.
Harly Statutes of St. John’s College, Cambridge. Edited by
J. E. B. Mayor, 1859. Presented by the Master of St. John’s
College, Cambridge.
Records of the town of Plymouth, Mass. Vols. 1-3. 1636-
1783. Presented by the Pilgrim Society, Plymouth, Mass.
Private Correspondence of Lord Byron. A proof of part of a
suppressed edition. Presented by Mrs. Shaw.
Catalogue of the Paintings, &c., belonging to the Honourable
Society of the Inner Temple, 1915. Presented by the Treasurer
and Masters of the Bench, Inner Temple.
Noticias historicas y genealogicas de los Hstados de Montijo y
Teba, 1915. Presented by the Duque de Berwick y de Alba.
G. F. Barwick.
DEPARTMENT OF MANUSCRIPTS. Zh
DEPARTMENT OF MANUSCRIPTS.
1. Catalogue of Additions. —Egerton MSS. 2890, 2891,
acquired in 1911, and 2899, acquired in 1912, have been described
and indexed.
The following MSS. acquired in 1913 have been described and
indexed: Additional 38662-38664, 38683, 38686, 38687, 38725,
38732, 38782-38788, 38790, 38791, and Egerton 2902-2904,
2906, 2907.
Of those acquired in 1914, Additional 38808, 38838, 38840,
38865-38890, 38892-38895, 38898-38930, 39165, 39167, 39168,
and of those acquired in 1915, Additional 39169-39177, 39179,
39184, 39212, 39214 have been described and indexed.
The descriptions of Additional MSS. acquired in 1913 have been
printed.
2. Catalogue of Greek Papyri.i—¥For Vol. V. of the Catalogue,
1769-1911 (catalogue numbers) have been finally revised for press,
sheets H-Kk have been printed off, and pp. 1-248 have been
indexed.
3. Catalogue of the Royal and King’s MSS.—Sheets 3 A-3 E
of Vol. II. have been revised, completing the volume (to end of
Royal Appendix). For Vol. III., descriptions of King’s MSS.
1-147, 161-172 have been revised and 1-145 sent to press ; sheet
B isin print. The index to the Royal MSS. has been sorted into
order.
4. Catalogue of Irish MSS.—The following MSS. have been
described :—Royal 6 B. III. ; Additional 18748 ; Egerton 113,
117, 122, 124, 130, 134, 141, 166, 168, 187, 195, 213, 214, 2899.
The revision of the section Miscellaneous has been completed, and
that of the sections Poetry, Tales, and Theology nearly so.
5. Catalogue of Charters.—Additional Charters 57357-57418,
acquired in 1912, have been described and indexed.
6. Binding.—167 Additional and Egerton MSS. newly acquired
and 90 MSS. of the old collections have been bound, repaired, or
lettered, together with 146 pieces of Papyri and 87 Books of
Reference, volumes of Facsimiles, and Catalogues. 6 Charters have
been repaired.
7. Verification.—The entire collection of MSS. has been verified
by comparison with the Shelf-Lists.
8. Reproductions—Part II. (English, 12th and 13th centt.)
of the Schools of Illumination has been completed and issued.
Part I. (Genesis—Ruth) of the reduced facsimile of the Codex
Alexandrinus has been completed and issued.
The introduction by Sir George Warner to the facsimiles from
the Lindisfarne Gospels is in preparation.
9. Stamping, folioing, and placing—tb7 Additional MSS., 1
Hgerton MS., and 145 Books of Reference have been stamped.
The total of impressions made was 3,842.
22 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
170 MSS. have been folioed, with a total of 32,268 folios. 696
sheets have been numbered.
125 newly acquired MSS. and 336 Papyri have been placed.
All have been press-marked and entered in Hand- and Shelf- Lists.
437 Charters and Rolls have been placed and have been entered
in the Hand-Lists. Numbers have been written on 829 newly
acquired Charters. 29 Seals and Casts have been provided with
boxes, placed, and entered in Hand- and Drawer-Lists.
10. Books of Reference—119 volumes and parts have been
received, catalogued, and placed.
15 volumes and parts of Facsimiles were added to the series
now deposited in the Department and available for the use of
Readers.
11. Consultation of MSS.—23,332 MSS. and 2,001 Charters
and Seals have been consulted in the Students’ Room, and 69
MSS. in the Reading Room. The number of Students was 7,781.
Magna Charta was exhibited to 10,361 visitors.
12. MSS. photographed.— 376 MSS. (including Papyri,
Charters, and Seals) were allowed to be photographed, with a total
of 3,073 photographs taken, of which 3 were for official purposes.
13. Acquisitions—The number of Manuscripts and Documents,
&c., acquired during the year has been :—
' Additional MSS. - = = - = = - 87
Charters and Rolls’ - - - - - - 2,541
Detached Seals and Casts - L = = = =h29
A few of the most important accessions by gift or purchase are
as follows :—
The Wodehouse Papers (calendared by the Historical MSS.
Commission in 1892), a collection valuable for the history of
Norfolk and Suffolk and of the families of Buttes, Bacon, and
Wodehouse. 30 volumes, 5 rolls, and 1,333 charters. Presented
by Mrs. Wodehouse, widow of the late Right Hon. Edmond Rh.
Wodehouse.
The Mackenzie Papers, 16th-19th centt., relating to the Clan
Mackenzie and especially the families of Suddie, Scatwell, and
Findon, and including military papers and diary of Gen. J. R.
Mackenzie, killed at Talavera. 25 volumes.
Autograph MS. of five pages of Charles Dickens’ Pickwick
Papers. Presented by Lady Wernher, who purchased it at the Red
Cross sale. .
Autograph MSS. of ‘A Century of Roundels” and about twenty
other poems and one prose article of A. C. Swinburne. Bequeathed
by Miss Isabel Swinburne.
Autograph MS. of Robert lowe Stevenson’s Fables.
J. P. Gilson.
DEPARTMENT OF ORIENTAL PRINTED BOOKS AND MSS. 23
DEPARTMENT OF ORIENTAL PRINTED Booxs anp MSS.
Arrangement and Cataloguing.—tThe numbers of the sheets of
the various Oriental Catalogues and other publications of the
Department which were sent to press in 1915 are :—Arabic Printed
Books Catalogue, 14 sheets ; Coptic Texts, vol. 5, 62 sheets ; Gujarati
Printed Books Catalogue, 19 sheets ; Hebrew MSS. Catalogue, 73
sheets.
The numbers of Titles written for the Catalogues are :—Abor
Miri, 2; Arabic, 389 ; Assamese, 24 ; Avestan, 5; Bengali, 733 ;
Bodo, 14; Burmese, 169; Cachari, 2; Chin, 2 ; Chinese, 2,506 ;
Gujarati, 186 ; Hebrew, 261 ; Hindi, 502 ; Hindustani, 599 ; Ho,
4; Kachin, 5; Kanarese, 131; Karen, 14; Kashmiri, 7 ; Khasi,
12; Kurku, 6 ; Lakher, 2 ; Lushai, 15 ; Malayalam, 44 ; Manipuri,
6 ; Marathi, 39 ; Mundari, 11; Naga, 26 ; Oriya, 35; Pali, 117;
Panjabi, 170; Persian, 384; Prakrit, 44; Pushtu, 4; Sanskrit,
567: Santali, 10; Savara, 2; Siamese, 2; Sindhi, 9; Sinhalese,
115; Syriac, 28; Talaing, 2; Tamil, 471 ; Telugu, 437 ; Tibetan,
3; Turkish, 55. Total, 8,171.
65 Hebrew MSS. and 45 Indian Charters have been fully
catalogued.
32 short descriptions of MSS. have been entered in the Deserip-
tive List, the Register, and the Classed Inventory.
125 MSS. (7,885 folios) have been folioed.
Publications—Vol. 5 of the Series of Coptic Texts edited by
Dr. E. A. Wallis Budge, a Supplementary Catalogue of Marathi
and Gujarati Printed Books, and part 3 of the Catalogue of Hebrew
MSS. have been issued.
Binding.—The numbers of Printed Books and MSS. sent to the
Binders are :—Arabic, Hindustani, and Persian Books, 32 ; Chinese
Books, 37; Hebrew Books, 41; Books in Sanskrit and other
dian languages, 183 ; MSS., 170.
Students.—The number of visits of Students working in the
Students’ Room attached to the Department during the year was
2,705. The number of Oriental Printed Books read by them in the
Department was 16,954 (7,873 of which were issued once only, and
9,081 reserved) and of those used in the Reading Room, 2,359.
The number of Oriental MSS. read in the Students’ Room was 5,450.
Photography.—25 applications have been made to photograph
books and MSS. in this Department.
Additions—The number of volumes, pamphlets, etc., added to
the collections of the Department during the year is 2,041, of which
2,020 are Printed Books and 21 are MSS,
Of the Printed Books, 119 were bought ; 1,698 were received
under the India Copyright Act; 81 were received under the
Colonial Copyright Acts from Ceylon and Hongkong; 2 .were
24 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
received in exchange for duplicates ; and 120 were presented. Of
the MSS., 10 were bought and 11 presented.
The MSS. are as follows :—
Arabic - = A s xi as |
Chinese = = = 2 - =
Hebrew = - = - - =
Persian = - ~ - - -
Persian and Arabic - - - -
Sanskrit - - - = - -
Sogdian - = = = = =
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The most important acquisitions are :—
Arabic MSS.—1. Sharh al-kulliyat, a commentary by Kutb
al-Din Muh. b. Mahmid al-Shirazi on Ibn Sina’s Kantn. Bk. 1.
ponies A.Hee (15 (AD: 1310)... 8°.ny Rare:
Durrat al-mudiyah, a commentary on Ibn Malik’s Alfiyah,
by ie son Badr al-Din Abu ‘Abd Allah Muhammad. Copied 4.x.
793 (A.D. 1390). 4°. Very rare.
3. A supercommentary by Shams al-Din al-Shaubari on Al-
Ansari’s commentary on the Minhaj al-talibin. 2 vols. Copied
A.H. 1100 (A.p. 1688). 8°. No other copy appears to be on
record.
4. Kitab al-wafi, a work on scholastic theology by Muh. b.
Murtada (Muhsin). Pt. 2. 18th-19th cent. 8°. Apparently unique.
5. Kitab ikmal al-din, a treatise on Shi‘ah doctrine by ‘Imad
al-Din Abu Ja‘far Muh. b. ‘Ali (Ibn Babawaih). Copied a.H. 1204
(A.D. 1789). 4°. No other copy appears to be on record.
Chinese MS.—1. A letter, written on yellow silk, from a T’ai-
ping leader to the Rev. Joseph Hdkins, asking to be instructed in
Christian doctrine. Presented by Mrs. Lockhart.
Hebrew Books.—1. The Yoreh De‘ah of Jacob ben Asher.
Printed at Fez about 1520. Fol. Only one other copy of this
edition is known to exist.
2. The Hebrew Grammar of Kimhi. The earliest edition
known.) 525: 8°.
Persian MSS.—1. Tazkirat i Minuchihr, lives of eminent Per-
sians, with specimens of their works, by Mu‘tamad ul-Daulah
Minuchihr Khan. Copied a.u. 1264 (a.p. 1847). Fol. No other
copy appears to be on record.
2. Rag i miusiki, a treatise on the modes of Hindu music,
illuminated, and illustrated with 39 paintings. 18th cent. Fol.
Presented by the Royal College of Music.
IL. D. Barnett.
DEPARTMENT OF PRINTS AND DRAWINGS. a5
DEPARTMENT OF PRINTS AND DRAWINGS.
l.—Arrangement and Cataloguing, Se.
Eahibition.—The contents of the exhibition of Select Prints and
that of Recent Acquisitions have been varied in detail, among the
prints exhibited being selections of etchings by Meryon, Legros,
Frank Brangwyn, A.R.A., Sir Alfred Hast, R.A., Muirhead Bone,
and Col. R. Goff, lithographs by Albert Belleroche, and colour-
prints by A. W. Seaby. In July all the recently acquired prints
were removed to make room for an exhibition of the Sale Collection
of water-colour drawings.
The engraved fans presented by Lady Charlotte Schreiber are
being exhibited in rotation. Two selections, of twenty each, were
shown during the year.
Catalogues.—Vol. I. of the Catalogue of Dutch and Flemish
Drawings, describing the work of Rembrandt and his school, has
been published.
A portion of Vol. V. of the Catalogue of Engraved British
Portraits, containing descriptions of the portrait groups, has been
printed, and an index to the separate persons contained in these
groups is being prepared. Progress has been made with the pre-
paration of a supplement to the main body of the Catalogue.
The work of indexing foreign portraits contained in books of
prints, the works of engravers, and other parts of the collection to
which references had not yet been given, has been commenced.
Arrangement.—The books of prints and books of drawings have
been completely rearranged, with more regard to schools, dates,
and subjects, and re-labelled.
The card index to the books of reference has been continued,
and over 3,000 cards have been written.
All books of prints and books of reference recently acquired
have been catalogued, labelled, and placed.
The index of periodicals has been brought up to date.
3,153 prints and drawings recently acquired have been incor-
porated with the divisions of the collection to which they severally
belong.
Registration.— 3,694 items have been entered in the Register of
Acquisitions.
Stamping and Mounting.—11,288 drawings, prints, &e., recently
acquired, have been impressed with the departmental stamp and
references to the Register.
The whole of the French drawings in the Malcolm Collection
have been mounted.
242 drawings, recently acquired, have been prepared and
mounted on sunk mounts ; 59 prints have been mounted on sunk, and
57 on plain mounts; 310 book-plates have been placed on paper
mounts. A large number of mezzotints from the Cheylesmore
Collection have also been placed on sunk mounts. All the above
26 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
have been lettered with the artists’ names and references to the
Register and to Catalogues.
161 drawings have been mounted in ee
101 drawings, 634 prints, and 664 mounts have been cleaned.
Students.—The total number of visitors admitted to the Print
Room during the year ended 31st December 1915 was 5,781, being
375 in excess of the number for 1914; in the latter year, however,
the room was closed for over four months.
Photographing.—231 applications were made for leave to photo-
graph, and 803 photographs were taken.
Il.— Acquisitions.
The total number of prints, drawings, books, &c., acquired
during the year was 3,819, of which the following are the most
important :—
ITALIAN SCHOOL.
Drawings.
Tiepolo, Giovanni Battista. Two drawings of figures ; pen and
bistre wash.
Prints arranged to illustrate the Works of Masters.
Sanzio, Raffaello. St. George, from the picture now at Petro-
grad. Engraved in 1628 by David des Granges, an engraver of
whom no record appears to exist. Presented by R. Ross, Esq.
GERMAN SCHOOL.
Drawings.
Diirer, Albrecht. Group of knights riding and tilting ; signed
and dated 1489 ; pen and ink; from the Andreossi, Lawrence, and
Ginsburg Collections. Study of costume, undated ; pen and ink ;
from the Wellesley and Ginsburg Collections. Presented by the
Diirer Society.
Engravings.
Anonymous engraver called “ Der Meister mit den Blumen-
rahmen” (15th cent.). ‘The Passion of Christ,” twenty-six small
engravings in a volume, from the Huth Collection.
Metal-cut.
SS. Oswald and Notburga. Unique dotted print of the 15th
cent. Schreiber 1717. From the Huth Collection.
Woodcuts.
St. Anne. Coloured woodcut. of the 15th cent., with a prayer
for use in time of pestilence, and an indulgence containing the date
1494, cut upon the block. From the 8. Leigh Sotheby Collection.
A copy of this woodcut, at Nuremberg, is described by Schreiber,
No. 1195. Presented by H. Van den Bergh, Esq., through the
National Art-Collections Fund.
DEPARTMENT OF PRINTS AND DRAWINGS. Zé
St. Nicholas. Coloured woodcut of the 15th cent., from the
S. Leigh Sotheby Collection ; unique and undescribed. Presented
by the National Art-Collections Fund, with the aid of contributions
from J. P. Heseltine, Esq., C. W. Dyson Perrins, Esq., and Campbell
Dodgson, Esq.
ScHOOLS OF THE NETHERLANDS.
Drawing.
Witel, Gaspar Van (Vanvitelli). Pen and wash drawing of
Italian scenery, from the Lawrence and Ginsburg Collections.
Presented by Campbell Dodgson, Esq.
Etching.
Rembrandt. Jacob lamenting the supposed death of Joseph, B.
38. Undescribed first state.
FRENcH SCHOOL.
Drawings.
Guys, Constantin. Two drawings of scenes of Roman life,
about 1865; pen and Indian ink wash. Presented by M. T. H.
Sadler, Esq.
Engravings.
Grateloup, Jean Baptiste. Portraits of Bossuet, first state,
Descartes, second state, Montesquieu, second state, and Polignac,
first state.
Etchings.
Jacquemart, Jules. Christ at the Column. Presented by A. E.
Anderson, Esq.
Meryon, Charles. Title to “ Voyage 4 la Nouvelle-Zélande,”
Delteil, 63, IJ. Frame for a portrait, Delteil, 95, IX. Presented
by Campbell Dodgson, Esq.
Waltner, Charles. Wayfarers, after F. Walker, A.R.A. Vellum
proof of the rare first state, before the plate was altered by instruc-
tions from Millais. The Peaceful Thames, after F. Walker, A.R.A.
Remarque proof on vellum. Presented by HK. HE. Leggatt, Esq.
Lithograph.
Corot, J. B. C. La Lecture sous les Arbres. Delteil 33.
SCANDINAVIAN ScHOOLS.
Etchings.
Martin, Johan Fredrik. Two views in Stockholm, etched in
outline and tinted in water colours by the artist.
AMERICAN SCHOOL.
Etchings.
J. A. MeN. Whistler. The Swan Brewery. Wedmore 89.
28 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
Lithographs.
Brown, Bolton. Nine original lithographs (landscape and
figures). Presented by the Artist.
Sargent, John Singer, R.A. Portrait of Albert Belleroche.
Presented anonymously.
Veresmith, D. A. Four original lithographs: The Romany
Chal; ‘‘ You shall also mount with me” ; The Jumble Sale; ‘‘ Chié
la?” Presented by the Artist.
ENNGLIsH ScHOoOL.
Drawings.
The principal acquisition of the year in this class is the collec-
tion of water-colour drawings, seventy-five in number, of which only
fifty-two belong strictly to the English school, bequeathed by the
Rey. C. J. Sale (d. 1896), to which must be added nine water-
colours (four by David Cox, two by Copley Fielding, and three by
J. M. W. Turner, R.A.) bequeathed by his widow, Mrs. Mary Sale,
of Wick Episcopi, near Worcester, who died on January 25th, 1915.
The Sale bequest includes eighteen specimens of David Cox, includ-
ing two of unusual size and importance, ‘“‘ The Vale of Clwyd” and
‘“* Beeston Castle,” as well as many others of smaller size, but greater
artistic interest, which add much in variety of style to the large
collection of Cox’s work already in the department. Three
specimens of Turner’s work, “‘ St. Agatha’s Abbey, Hasby,” “ Glacier
des Bossons,” and a Venetian subject, ‘‘ Storm on the Lagoons,” are
notable acquisitions. The collection also includes specimens of the
following English artists, many of whom were not hitherto represented
in the department :—G. Barrett, jun., R. Beavis, C. Branwhite, W.
Callow, G. Cattermole, T. S. Cooper, R.A., P. DeWint, M. Birket
Foster, G. A. Fripp, Sir J. Gilbert, R.A., J. Holland, W. H. Hunt,
W. J. Miiller, P. J. Naftel, W. H. Pike, S. Prout, T. M. Richardson,
jun., D. Roberts, R.A., F. J. Skill, F. Smallfield, F. Tayler, H. B.
Willis, and EH. M. Wimperis. The artists of foreign birth, drawings
by whom are included in the bequest, are Guido Bach, Carl Haag,
Sir Hubert von Herkomer, R.A., E. 8S. Lundgren, Jozef Israels, and
the French animal painter, Charles Olivier de Penne.
Among other English drawings, the following deserve mention :—
Alexander, Edwin. Ten studies of Pigeons ; water-colours.
Presented by the Artist.
Boyce, George Price. Farm Buildings at Streatley-on-Thames ;
View from Pompey’s Pillar at Alexandria; water-colours. Be-
queathed by Mrs. Gillum.
Bright, Henry. Coast scene; black chalk. Presented by G.
Bellingham Snuth, Esq.
Eve, George William. Twelve preliminary drawings for book-
plates. Presented by G. H. Viner, Esq.
Mahoney, James. Two illustrations to ‘“ Little Dorrit”; pen
and ink.
Prout, Samuel. View in Cologne ; pencil.
DEPARTMENT OF PRINTS AND DRAWINGS, 29
Robertson, George. View near Tunbridge Wells; water-colours.
Presented by W. C. Alexander, Esq. Burnham Abbey, Bucks ;
water-colours. Presented by Sir Hickman Bacon, Bart.
Shaw, R. Norman, R.A. Two architectural drawings ; pencil.
Presented by Mrs. Norman Shaw.
Steer, P. Wilson. Rodborough Common ; The North Sea ;
water-colours. Presented by the Artist. A Bend of the Severn ;
water-colours. Presented by Geoffrey Blackwell, Esq.
Thackeray, W.M. The Little Rebel; penandink. Bequeathed
by Mrs. Gillum.
Etchings.
Baskett, C. H. Four landscape subjects ; aquatint. Presented
by Messrs. P. and D. Colnaghi and Obach.
Bentley, Alfred. Five original landscape and subject etchings.
Presented by the Artist.
Bone, Muirhead. Piccadilly Circus, 1915; dry-point, trial
proof and finished state. Presented by the Artist. Orvieto ; dry-
point, first state (one of two impressions only).
Brangwyn, Frank, A.R.A. ‘Twenty-four etchings of architecture
and landscape, including the etchings of the earthquake of Messina
and others of the artist’s chief works. Presented by the Artist.
Cameron, Katharine. leven etchings, chiefly of insects and
flowers. Presented by the Artist.
Eve, G. W. Fifteen proofs of diplomas, invitation tickets, &c.
Presented by G. H. Viner, Esq.
Gethin, P. F. Gerona, Spain. Presented by Messrs. P. and D.
Colnaght and Obach.
Gosse, Sylvia. Hight etchings of interiors, models, landscapes,
&e. Presented by the Artist.
Griggs, F. L. The Ford. Presented by the Artist.
Hay, James Hamilton. The new lion, British Museum ; dry-
point. Presented by the Artist.
Heseltine, J. P. Twenty-one landscape subjects. Presented by
the Artist.
_ Hill, Vernon. Six allegorical subjects. Presented by John
Lane, Esq.
Osborne, Malcolm. Hight landscape subjects. Presented by the
Artist.
Robins, W. P. The Brook ; Interior of a Barn ; dry-point.
Presented by Messrs. P. and D). Colnaghi and Obach.
Sickert, Walter. Nine etchings of architectural and figure
subjects. Presented by the Artist. The Market, Dieppe. Presented
by Miss S. Gosse.
Smart, D. I. The Four Chimneys. Presented by Miss E. P.
McGhee. Twelve etchings of landscape and architecture. Presented
by the Artist.
Strang, William, A.R.A. Portrait of the Harl Beauchamp, K.G.
Presented by the Earl Beauchamp, K.G.
Walcot, William. Baths of Caracalla; Palazzo Pesaro; and two
others. Presented by H. C. Dickins, Esq.
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Wheatley, John. Susanna and the Elders. Study for the head
of elder. Presented by the Artist.
Lnthographs.
Becker, Harry. Three rustic subjects. Presented by the Artist.
Four lithographs (landscape and animals). Presented by Campbell
Dodgson, Esq.
Belleroche, Albert. Highteen original works: portraits, land-
scape, still life.
Flint, W. Russell. The Destruction of a Zeppelin by Flight-
Lieutenant Warneford, V.C. Presented by the Medici Society, Ltd.
Johnson, H. Borough. Belgian Refugees. Presented by the
Artist.
Lawson, J. Kerr. Spanish Gipsies (set of six). Presented by
the Artist.
Linnell, John (jun.) The Sonnet, after W. Mulready, R.A.
Presented by Campbell Dodgson, Esq.
Pryse, G. Spencer. Belgian Mothers. Presented by Mrs. Lewis
Hind. Home; Belgium, 1914. Presented by the Artist.
Shannon, Charles, A.R.A. The Morning Visit. Presented by
A. H. Anderson, Esq.
Various posters, by H. Becker, A. S. Hartrick, F. E. Jackson,
J. Kerr-Lawson, J. Pennell, G. Spencer Pryse, and L. Raven-Hill,
in proof state. Presented by the Underground Railways, Ltd.
Woodcuts.
Mahoney, James (designed by). Twenty-four illustrations, in
proof state. Presented by KH. EH. Leggatt, Hsq. .
Montbard, G. (after). Seventy-eight proofs of ‘ English
Homes.” Presented by E. E. Leggatt, Esq.
Raverat, Gwendolen. Twelve original woodcuts. Presented by
the Artist. :
Walker, F.S. (designed by). Highteen illustrations. Presented
by the Artist.
PorRTRAITS.
Foreign.
102 engraved portraits, and 14 reproduced by photographic pro-
cesses, have been acquired.
English.
699 engraved portraits, and 266 reproduced by photographic
processes, have been acquired. In addition to 52 portraits of
members of Grillion’s Club, presented by the Rt. Hon. Sir George
Murray, G.C.B., the following may be specially mentioned.
Beaconsfield, Benjamin: Disraeli, 1st Harl of. Mezzotint by
T. L. Atkinson after H. von Angeli.
Bedford, Elizabeth, Duchess of. Mezzotint by G. Zobel after
R. Buckner.
Buccleuch, the 5th and 6th Dukes of. Engraved by H.
Robinson and J. Brown after G. Richmond.
DEPARTMENT OF PRINTS AND DRAWINGS. 31
Butler, Rev. H. Montagu, D.D., Master of Trinity College,
Cambridge. Mezzotint by F. Sternberg after Herkomer.
Colenso, J. W., Bishop of Natal. Mezzotint by C. H. Tomkins
after S. Sidney. :
BHxeter, 2nd Marquess of. Mezzotint by C. W. Wass after J.
Sant, R.A.
Haden, Sir F. Seymour. Htching by Flameng.
Howard, Philip, Cardinal. Engraving by De Poilly.
Kean, Edmund, as Brutus. Mezzotint by 8S. W. Reynolds after
J. Northcote.
Laurie, Sir Peter. Mezzotint by J. Scott after T. Phillips.
Macready, William Charles (as Werner). Engraving by C. W.
Sharpe after D. Maclise, R.A.
Mill, John Stuart. Etching by P. Rajon after G. F. Watts,
R.A.
Nightingale, Florence. Engraving by T. H. Hillis after Elston.
Victoria, Duchess of Kent. Engraving by F. Holl after F.
Winterhalter.
Westminster, Hugh, Ist Duke of. Mezzotint by T. O. Barlow
after Sir. J. E. Millais, P.R.A.
BooK-PLATES.
459 etched by G. W. Eve, chiefly proofs in many varieties of
state. Presented by G. H. Viner, Esq., and others.
157 engraved on wood by W. H. Hooper, in proof state.
Presented by Campbell Dodgson, Esq.
278 engraved by C. W. Sherborn, in the final state, as used.
Presented by C. Davies Sherborn, Esq.
4 engraved on wood by T. Sturge Moore, in proof state. Pre-
sented by the Artist.
11 etched by H. J. F. Badeley. Presented by the Artist.
COLLECTIONS AND SETS.
43 engravings and etchings after Rembrandt. Presented by
J. Charrington, Esq.
150 caricatures etched by M. Darly, entitled ‘‘ Macaronies ”’
(1771-73), with the six title-pages.
40 rare etchings by various minor etchers of the Norwich School
(M. E. Cotman, R. Girling, W. H. Hunt, R. Leman, J. Middleton,
H. Ninhan, A. Priest, &c.).
A set of progress proofs (partly in duplicate) of the portrait of
Henry Graves, the joint work of fifteen different engravers. Pre-
sented by Algernon Graves, Esq., F.S.A.
37 etchings, mezzotints, &c., after modern artists, published by
Messrs. Dowdeswell & Dowdeswells, in proof state. Presented by
Messrs. Dowdeswell § Dowdeswells, Ltd.
A very extensive collection illustrating the life and work of
Frederick Walker, A.R.A., consisting of woodcuts, etchings, photo-
graphs from pictures and drawings, &c., arranged in chronological
32 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
order, mounted on cards in two Solander volumes, and accompanied
by copious notes and documents. Presented by EK. EH. Leggatt, Esq.
Books oF Prints AND Books oF REFERENCE.
W. Bode, Frans Hals, his life and work. 2 vols. 1914.
J. Flaxman, The Acts of Mercy, engraved in aquatint by F. C.
Lewis. Extra large India paper proofs in wrapper, as issued.
Presented by Mrs. Harvey.
Das Werk Ferdinand Hodlers. No. 14 of the Museumsausgabe
(15 copies). Presented by Prof. Michael Sadler.
EH. J. Kennedy, The Lithographs of Whistler. Completely
illustrated catalogue.
J. D. Harding, Sketches at Home and Abroad. E. Purcell,
Sketches in Lithography, 1822. D. Roberts, The Holy Land. 2
vols. 1843, with coloured lithographs.
F. Courboin, Graveurs et Marchands d’estampes au xviii’ siecle.
HE. Dacier, L’Cfuvre gravé de Gabriel de St. Aubin. A. Mellerio,
Odilon Redon. H.T. Bossert and W. F. Storck, Das mittelalterliche
Hausbuch. O. A. Weigmann, Neuere Maler-Radierer, Bd. I. 8. L.
Wenban. Presented by Campbell Dodgson, Esq.
Campbell Dodgson.
SUB-DEPARTMENT OF ORIENTAL PRINTS AND DRAWINGS. 33
Susp-DEPARTMENT OF ORIENTAL PRINTS AND DRAWINGS.
I.—Arrangement and Cataloguing, Sc.
A woodeut, printed in colour, by Y. Urushibara, after the
Chinese painting of Geese (Sung period) in the Museum Collection,
has been published and placed on sale.
The final revision and printing of the Catalogue of Japanese
Woodeuts has been completed, and an introduction to it has been
prepared for press. The Supplementary Catalogue of Chinese
Woodcuts has been begun.
With the consent of the Keeper of Oriental Printed Books and
MSS., the greater portion of the Japanese picture books and books
of designs preserved in that department have been transferred to the
Sub-Department in the interests of students of Japanese Art.
Among these books are a number of albums of colour-prints ; these
have been broken up, and the prints of better quality selected and
arranged for mounting. ‘The books have been arranged according
to schools, placed, and labelled ; and a list of them has been prepared
for the use of students.
The Index of Japanese Artists has been completed.
All books of prints and books of reference, recently acquired,
have been catalogued, placed, and labelled.
A card index of the books of reference has been made. 161
prints, paintings, &c., recently acquired, have been incorporated with
the divisions of the collection to which they severally belong.
Registration.—834 items have been entered in the Register of
Acquisitions.
Stamping and Mounting.—347 prints, paintings, &c., recently
acquired,. have been impressed with the departmental stamp and
references to the Register.
3 Japanese paintings have been repaired and remounted.
31 Indian paintings and drawings have been mounted on sunk
mounts, twenty-five of which have been specially cleaned and
repaired.
428 Japanese prints have been mounted on sunk mounts, 98 of
which have been specially cleaned and repaired.
Il.— Acquisitions.
The total number of paintings, prints, &c., acquired. during the
year was 1,138, of which the following are the most important :—
CHINESE.
Painting.
Chao Méng-fu, after. Horses and Grooms. Makimono, painted
in colours. Presented by Dr. Scott.
C
34 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
JAPANESE.
Woodcuts.
Choki. Girls in the Naniwa-ya. Hashirakake. Presented by
R. N. Shaw, Esq.
Harunobu. Girls embracing ; Girls shooting toy darts ; diptych.
Both presented by R. N. Shaw, Esq.
Hiroshige, Tokaido Meisho Gwajo. Set of fifty-five prints.
Transferred from the Department of Oriental Printed Books.
Kiyonaga. Sheltering from a Shower; part of a triptych.
Ladies at the Hot Springs ; one of a set.
Koriusai. Walking in the Snow.
Kitawo Masanobu. Fair ones of the Yoshiwara, completing the
Museum set of Seiro Meikun Jihitsu-Shu. Presented by R. N. Shaw,
Esq.
‘i Merpaaee Amusements of Men and Women. Set of eighteen
prints, coloured by hand. Transferred from the Department of
Oriental Printed Books.
Shunsho. Visit toa Lady. Presented by R. N. Shaw, Esq.
Shunsho’s School. One hundred and ninety-eight prints of
actors, including sixty-eight diptychs, and nine triptychs. Transferred
from the Department of Oriental Printed Books.
Shunzan. The Niwaka Procession; part of a triptych.
Presented by R. N. Shaw, Esq.
Toyokuni. Girls in a Garden; triptych. Presented by
R.N. Shaw, Esq.
Utamaro. Girls in the House of the Fan ; Oiran with Attendants.
Both presented by R. N. Shaw, Esq.
Picture Books and Books of Designs.
Harunobu, 3 ; Hiroshige, 4 ; Hokkei, 2 ; Hokusai, 34 ; Itcho, 5 ;
Korin, 4; Kyosai, 7; Okumura Masanobu, 4; Masayoshi, 10 ;
Morikuni, 8 ; Moronobu, 4 ; Okyo, 2; Sekiyen, 4; Shigemasa and
Shunsho, 1 ; Shunsho, 3 ; Sukenobu, 5 ; Toyokuni, 2; Utamaro, 2.
Transferred from the Department of Oriental Printed Books and
MSS.
INDIAN.
Paintings and Drawings.
Mogul School. Lady and Yogi; in colours. Presented by
Charles Ricketts, Esq.
Kangra School. Girl under flowering tree at night. Krishna
at play. ‘The Proud Lady. A man performing an incantation. A
prince giving audience. Two girls at a window. Lady and maid
on a terrace. Lovers on a balcony at night. All painted in colours.
The last three presented by Herbert Cook, Esq.
Kashmir School. An Interview; in colours. Presented by
Herbert Cook, Esq.
SUB-DEPARTMENT OF ORIENTAL PRINTS AND DRAWINGS. 35
Woodcuts.
Fourteen woodcuts illustrating legends of Krishna, &c. Pre-
sented by W. Bateson, Esq.
Books or Prints AND Books or REFERENCE.
Gillot Collection Sale Catalogue. Two vols. Presented by
Arthur Morrison, Esq.
Reproduction of a Landscape Roll, by Sesshu, in the Hara
Collection. Presented by Hamilton Bell, Esq.
Paintings by Sessht (Sessht Gwashit) ; Paintings of the Southern
School (Nangwajudaikashu) ; Bunjingwa Paintings. Presented by
Robert Ross, Hsq.
Smith, Vincent. History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon.
Laurence Binyon.
36 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
DEPARTMENT OF EGYPTIAN AND ASSYRIAN ANTIQUITIES.
IL
Eeyptian ANTIQUITIES :—
Arrangement, Cataloguing, &c.
The removal of portions of the collections to places protected
against hostile air-craft has been continued.
The classification and re-arrangement of the Egyptian Collections
have been continued, and the greater number of the objects acquired
during the year have been cleaned and mounted in readiness for
exhibition in due course.
The washing and cleansing of monuments, statues, &c., have been
continued, and many stelee and earthenware vessels have been soaked
in water and treated to free them from salt deposits.
The labelling of the Collections has been continued, and broken
numbers have been restored, and old, worn-out labels have been
replaced by new, full ones. 111 labels have been written and
painted, 463 numbers have been painted on objects, and about 20
objects have been photographed.
411 scarabs have been removed from their mounts, moulds and
casts of the bases have been made for the Catalogue of Scarabs,
which is in course of publication, and the scarabs have been
remounted and renumbered. 297 impressions of scarabs have been
made.
12 oak cases for mummied birds and animals, 9 alabaster
plinths, 4 satin-wood plinths, 9 oak plinths, and 1 frame have
been made, and 27 Caen-stone plinths have been prepared ; fittings
for wall cases in the Fourth Egyptian Room have been prepared
and fixed ; the locks and bolts of all the table-cases have been
examined, and eased where necessary ; cupboards and cases in the
Students’ Room have been fitted with shelves and drawers, ec.
A complete copy of the facsimile of the Ani Papyrus has been
fixed to the screen in the room adjoining the Extension, and a cast
of the Rosetta Stone has been mounted and exhibited in the Egyptian
Gallery. Three objects have been cleaned and repaired.
15 objects have been registered, about 30 stele have been
copied, and labels have been written for 50 plates of text. Drawings
of a number of stele have been made for reproduction.
Works in Progress.
1. Coptic Texts—Nine MSS. have been copied and the copies
collated and printed ; indexes have been compiled, descriptions of
the plates have been written, and a preface and introduction have
been written. :
2. Catalogue of Scarabs.—329 scarabs have been catalogued
tor) Vol. £1.
3. Kgyptian Texts.—50 plates for Part VI. have been printed.
4. [ieratic Papyri.—The transcribing of texts has been begun.
DEPARTMENT OF EGYPTIAN AND ASSYRIAN ANTIQUITIES. 37
ASSYRIAN ANTIQUITIES :—
The Kuyunjik Collections have been examined and the numbers
verified ; the Babylonian Collections have been checked and arranged
on trays with reference boards ; and numbers have been affixed to
1,200 trays. The exhibited tablets in the Nineveh Gallery have
been removed to the Basement.
100 tablets have been cleaned and 92 repaired ; 4,069 tablets
have been placed in numbered boxes ; 3,150 tablets have been,
numbered, «ce.
13 stone plinths, 2 oak plinths, 6 stands, and 3 frames have
been made, and 24 cylinders, vases, &c., have been mounted.
2,184 tablets, &c., have been registered ; 43 tablets or fragments
have been copied: 2,349 tablets have been catalogued, and
283 slips have been revised ; a Preface for the Bronze Gates of
Shalmaneser has been written, the making of reference slips for
cataloguing purposes has been continued, and the case-books have
been kept up to date; and 100 lithographic plates have been
checked in proof.
PH@NICIAN AND Hittite ANTIQUITIES :
122 votive inscriptions have been remounted on stone plinths
and labelled ; 36 Hittite antiquities have been mounted on satin-wood
pedestals and cloth-covered mounts.
Works in Progress.
1. Cuneiform Texts.—50 plates of epigraph texts, and 50 plates
of Hittite texts have been printed off.
Publications.
1. Miscellaneous Coptic Texts in the Dialect of Upper Egypt.
2. Bronze Reliefs from the Gates of Shalmaneser.
Students.—About 1,700 visits have been made to the Department
by students and inquirers, and 4,840 objects have been issued for
their use.
Personally Conducted Parties.—Highteen parties with a total of
nearly 500 persons have been personally conducted through the
Department.
I1.— Acquisitions.
I.—EHeyprian :—
I.—1-65. Miscellaneous Egyptian antiquities, including bronze
figures, XXth—XXVIth Dynasties, a blue porcelain Canopic jar of
Amen-hetep II., bronze boat and figure of Osiris-Ptah, a fine group
of ushabtiu figures (some royal), a blue porcelain scarab and two
Gnostic gems.
[J.—1-22. A valuable collection of Coptic antiquities com-
prising: Two bas-reliefs, two large painted vases, a lamp, two
38 . ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
writing tablets, painted panel, the scene of the Resurrection, spoon,
hair-pin, pair of cymbals, and ten miscellaneous wooden objects,
many of which were employed at the celebration of the Eucharist.
IT.—AssyrRIAn, &c. :-—
I.—1. A complete baked clay inscribed barrel-cylinder of
Sennacherib, king of Assyria, B.c. 705-681. The
first part of the text describes his expedition against
Merodach-Baladan in 703, and supplies a number of
new and important historical facts, and the second part
records the building operations of the king of Assyria.
2. Limestone tablet of Anam, or Ilumaila, who may be
identified with Anam-gishdabba, a contemporary of
Sin-gamil, king of Erech. The text records the
restoration of the temple of the goddess Ninni. B.c.
2200.
3. Baked clay foundation record from the palace of Sin-
gashid of Erech, who reigned about B.c. 2200.
4. A nearly complete baked clay cylinder of Hsarhaddon,
king of Assyria, B. 0c. 681-668, inscribed in the
Assyrian character. The text contains a prayer to
Nana, a prayer for long life, a statement of the king’s
genealogy, and a series of curses on any successor
who shall harm or neglect the Temple of Nana, which
Esarhaddon restored.
5. A barrel-shaped clay cylinder inscribed with a prayer to a
goddess on behalf of Arad-Nana, an official of Hrech.
6. Portion of a Sumerian liturgical composition containing
references to various deities. B.c. 2200.
7-17. A group of tablets dealing with sales of land and house
property, the transfer of slaves, accounts, &c. B.C.
2200-2000.
II.—1. Bronze bull-pendant, with Himyaritic inscription.
2. Silver armlet with the legend Wadam Abam in
Himyaritic characters.
3. Chalcedony cone engraved with the figure of a priest at
an altar, and a name in Phoenician characters. About
B.C. 400.
4. Fragment of an Assyrian relief cut from a slab at
Nineveh.
III. Presents.
I.—1. A stone figure of the Ba, or human soul, in the form
of a human-headed hawk with pendent Sidani female
breasts. From Nubia. Ist or 2nd cent., A.D.
Presented by the Rev. W. Russell Finlay.
DEPARTMENT OF EGYPTIAN AND ASSYRIAN ANTIQUITIES. 39
II.—1-2. Two stone altars with Himyaritic inscriptions.
3. Figure from a sepulchral ornament.
4, Fragment with figure of a horned animal.
5-7. Three small sepulchral monuments. From the collection
of the late General Prideaux of Aden.
Presented by H. Oppenheimer, Esq., F.S.A., and
Maurice Rosenheim, Esq., FSA.
I1].—1-3. Three mummied children, one in a pottery coffin.
4-24. Twenty-one mummied birds and animals.
25. A pottery case.
26, 27. Two gilded masks.
Presented by EH. L. Grunning, Esq.
IV.—1. Painted ushabtiu box of Anhai, a princess, priestess and
singing woman of Amen—Ra. B.c. 1000.
2. Four painted ushabtiu of Anhai inscribed with a version
of the VIth Chapter of the Book of the Dead.
Presented by T. H. Green, Esq.
V.—1-13. A collection of thirteen mud-sealings for jars.
Presented by the Egypt Exploration Fund.
VI.—1. Baked clay cylinder of Neriglissar, king of Babylon,
B.C. 559-556, with a text Siiaaias some of the
building operations of this king.
2. Contract of year 18 of Aliantashealaamae, B.c. 651.
3. Sumerian liturgical composition. B.c. 2000.
4—7. Fragment of a similar text, fragment of inlaid plaque,
and two figures of apes.
Presented by L. A. Lawrence, Esq.
VII.— Ushabti figure of a divine father.
Presented by W. Plowman, Hsq.
VIII.— The Archeological Survey of Nubia for 1909-10.
Presented by C. H. Firth, E'sq., M.A.
IX.— Sumerian tablets from Umma by C. L. Bedale.
Presented by the Rylands Library, Manchester.
X.— Documents of economic statistics of ancient Chaldea
(Part II.) from the collection of N. P. Likhachev,
Moscow, 1915.
Presented by the Moscow Archeological Society.
E. A. Wallis Budge.
40 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
DEPARTMENT OF GREEK AND ROMAN ANTIQUITIES.
I.— Arrangement, &c.
Special measures have been taken for the protection of the more
valuable part of the collection against hostile aircraft attacks, by
removal to positions of greater safety, or by methods of protection
in situ.
In the Sculpture Galleries a series of fragments and mouldings
has been arranged in the Mausoleum Room, and some additional
fragments of the Priene sculptures mounted. The Salutaris inscrip-
tion from Ephesus has been improved by the insertion of eighteen
new fragments.
In the Upper Galleries the series of armour transferred from
the Tower Armoury has been arranged in the Room of Greek and
Roman Life ; the arrangement of the unexhibited lamps in drawers
in the Fourth Vase Room has been completed, the plain black wares
in the Third Vase Room rearranged, and the objects from the
Hiphesus excavations exhibited in the First Vase Room. A finding-
list has been made of the Cypriote vases in the First Vase Room.
The publication of the Select Bronzes was completed, and pro-
gress was made with the Catalogue of Silver Plate. Progress has
also been made ‘with the second part of Volume IV. of the Greek
Inscriptions, which has now been set up in page form. An Index
to the four volumes of Inscriptions has been compiled, and is now
passing through the press.
Moulds have been made of three slabs of the Parthenon frieze
and of one slab of the Phigaleian frieze ; of the Nike of the Par-
thenon pediment ; of the bronze Apollo (Cat. No. 209) ; and of the
cast of the Guilford puteal. ‘Thirty-five pieces of sculpture have
been mounted on stone plinths or pedestals, and twenty-two frag-
ments of inscriptions mounted or incorporated. Two plaster casts
and two bronzes have been mounted on wooden pedestals, and a
series of gems mounted and rearranged in the Gold Ornament
Room ; the bronze pumps in the Room of Greek and Roman Life
have been remounted. A set of drawers has been fitted in a case
in the First Vase Room; additional shelves in the Bronze Room for
unexhibited bronzes, and a new book-case for the Keeper’s study,
have been made. 58 vases, 11 bronzes, 7 terracottas, 6 iron spear-
heads, 3 ivories, and 2 wooden objects have been cleaned and
repaired. 66 objects were registered, 47 labels written and 7
printed, and 101 objects numbered.
The number of visits to the Departmental Library for the pur-
poses of research was 572 ; there were 629 other visits to the Staff
for enquiry or on departmental business, and 1,798 attendances of
students of art and architecture in the Sculpture Galleries.
DEPARTMENT OF GREEK AND ROMAN ANTIQUITIES. 41
I1.— Acquisitions.
I.—WMarble.
1. Sepulchral tablet with an amphora of the type known as
Loutrophoros in relief, and a pair of doves naturalistically treated.
Inscribed with the names of Menalkes and Melantes.
2. Relief of a family group within a portico, two of the figures
inscribed as Metagenes and Philumene, of the deme of Kyda-
thenaion.
3. Fragment of a sacrificial inscription. From Cos. Presented
by the Rev. Henry Francis, Vicar of Tring. (Cf. Paton & Hicks,
Inscriptions of Cos, p. 94).
Il.—Gems.
4. Paste cameo with head of Silenus in white glass on blue
ground. From Rome.
5. Paste cameo with laureate head of Apollo, imitating a
sardonyx. From Sicily.
4 and 5 Presented by Henry Wallis, isq., R. WS.
III.—Silver.
6. Lamp with four nozzles, in the form of a boat, on which is.
a figure of the infant Herakles grasping two serpents. Journ. Hell.
Stud., xxviil., p. 274, pl. 33. Found in Switzerland.
IV.—Bronze, §c.
7. A series of thirty pieces of armour on deposit from the Tower
Armoury, including (a) a set of helmet, dagger, and body-armour,
from Cumee, (}) three helmets, (c) a double axe, (d) bronze and
iron spear-heads, and lead sling-bolts from Marathon.
8. Fibula of the early Iron Age (anonymous donation).
V.— Vases.
9. Two Apulian vases of the 3rd cent. B.c., in the form of
squat jugs with covers and knotted handles ; on one Hros offering
a wreath to a woman, on the other Eros seated and a woman stand-
ing. Cf. Roemische Mitteilungen, 1914, p. 95.
10. Amphora of blue glazed ware, of the 2nd cent. after
Christ. From North Syria.
11. Black glazed lekythos with patterns in red body colour.
12. A series of vases and fragments of pottery from the collec-
tion of the late William Ransom of Hitchin, including :
(a) Jug in form of negro’s head, from Htruria.
42 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
(b) Fragments of Arretine ware with potters’ stamps, found
in the Tiber.
(c) Flask of St. Remy-en-Rollat fabric (about a.p. 25),
from Andernach.
(d) Bowl of Lezoux ware (about A.D. 120), signed by the
potter Flavius, from Orange, and other red wares
from the Rhine.
(e) Local Rhenish wares, including a jar inscribed MISCE
MI.
(f) Tile with stamp of Cohors IV. Vindelicorum, from Ems.
Cf. Limes, I. 3 (Arzbach), pl. 3, fig. 26.
(g) Bronze bowl from top of censer, from Siena.
Presented by F. Ransom, Esq.
VI.— Terracottas.
13. Antefix with head of young Herakles. Presented by R.
Snead Brown, Esq.
VII.—Plaster Casts.
14. Cast of the Lansdowne Herakles.
15. Cast of the throne with reliefs in the Boston Museum.
A. H. Smith.
BRITISH AND MEDIAVAL ANTIQUITIES. 43
DEPARTMENT OF BritisH AND MeEpI#@vAL ANTIQUITIES AND
ETHNOGRAPHY.
1.—Arrangement, Cataloguing, Se.
Prehistoric Room.—Most of the wall-cases in the iron gallery of
this room, as well as the table-cases, have been painted and re-
arranged, to illustrate the Stone and Bronze Ages respectively in
foreign countries.
Central Saloon.—Bronze Age remains from Great Britain and
Ireland will occupy the centre, and three table-cases and two ranges
of wall-cases have already been arranged. ‘The Greenwell collection
of bronzes has been incorporated, and in the south wing Stone Age
antiquities from these islands have been exhibited.
Iron Age Gallery.—In what was formerly the Glass and
Ceramic Gallery have been exhibited British and Foreign remains
of the Iron Age. The Hallstatt and La Tene periods of the
Continent with the Late Keltic series occupy the northern side,
dating from the 9th cent. B.c. to the Roman period in Britain ;
on the south side are Anglo-Saxon and Viking remains with the
corresponding collections from Kurope, usually assigned to the later
Iron Age. Two Ogham inscriptions on stone slabs have been
transferred from the ground floor; and the gallery, which was
opened December Ist, contains national antiquities of about 1,500
years, exclusive of the Roman period.
Roman Britain.—Six table-cases of Roman remains from
Britain have been transferred to what was formerly the Medieval
Room, and the wall-cases have been cleared for refitting. The
collection of ‘“‘Samian”’ ware and the lead coffins have already been
arranged in wall-cases ; and the removal of the remainder from the
Central Saloon is in progress.
King Edward VII. Gallery (Ground floor).—This gallery has
been cleared and prepared for the Waddesdon collection, the Franks
collection of medieval cups and metalwork, the medizval collection,
the English, continental and oriental porcelain and pottery, and
glass of all periods. Progress has been made with the transfer and
arrangement of several sections.
Christian Room.—The Christian Antiquities will be accommodated
at the south end of what was formerly the exhibition gallery of
Prints and Drawings. The former Christian Room and the two
adjoining rooms are being cleared for transfer to the Department
of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities. A Coptic fresco from Egypt
has been restored and mounted.
Buddhist Room.—Some progress has been made with the
arrangement of the Buddhist collection from the Northern Gallery,
in what was formerly the exhibition gallery of the Department. of
Prints and Drawings.
oa ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
Brahman Room.—After structural alterations, the exhibition of
Brahman antiquities and the series of Gandhara sculptures has been
almost completed in what was formerly the students’ room of the
Department of Prints and Drawings.
Asiatic Saloon.—Three table-cases have been removed to King
Edward VII. gallery and others containing oriental swords trans-
ferred from the Ethnographical Gallery. Much of the porcelain has
also been removed, to accommodate exhibits of oriental art, especially
metal-work. The collection of netsukés and other Japanese carvings
has been re-arranged, and the cases placed on temporary plinths.
Ethnographical Gallery.—A collection of Malayan silver has
been arranged in table-cases and labelled; and various additions
made to most sections. A large standard case and four table-cases
of oriental arms have been removed to the Asiatic Saloon.
Registration.—The registration of current acquisitions has been
continued, and 1,322 objects have been added, including ethno-
graphical specimens. Numbers have been painted on 1,293
specimens, and 969 permanent labels written.
Objects have been mounted to the number of 1,474, and the
card-catalogue of the departmental library continued.
The series collected by Sir M. A. Stein and formerly exhibited
in King Edward VII. gallery, has been divided for distribution.
Many of the most valuable exhibits have been removed from the
galleries in view of possible air-raids.
Publications.—The catalogue of Hngraved Gems of the post-
classical period was published in March. Current additions have
been made to the slip-catalogue of Oriental pottery and porcelain,
and further illustrations prepared for the Romano-British and
Anglo-Saxon guides. A report of the excavations conducted at
Rickmansworth in 1914 has been prepared and published in
Archwologia, vol. Ixvi., 195.
Students.—1,488 students and visitors have been received in the
Department, and a demonstration given in the Prehistoric section
by a member of the staff.
2. Principal Acquisitions.
(1.) Prehistoric and Early British Antiquities.
(a) Stone Age.—A series of chipped flints found below the Crag
deposits and in the middle glacial sands near Ipswich: described by
Sir E. Ray Lankester in Philosophical Transactions, Series B, vol.
202, pp. 283-336 (1912). Collected and presented by J. Reid Moir,
sq. .
An ovate flint implement found in the raised beach at Brighton.
Presented by W. Deane, Esq.
A series of flint implements, flakes and cores of Le Moustier
date, from the Coombe-rock at Northfleet, Kent: described in
BRITISH AND MEDIAVAL ANTIQUITIES. 45
Archeologia, \xii., 515. Presented by the Associated Portland
Cement Manufacturers, Ltd.
Ten flint implements of unusual types found in North Ireland.
Presented by Robert Welch, Ksq.
A series of flint implements from Kent and other districts in
England. Bequeathed by Richard Jones, Esq.
(b) Bronze Age.—Two British swords and rapier, and socketed
sickle and celt of rare type from Co. Mayo. On deposit from the
Tower Armoury.
(c) Karly Iron Age.—Ten bronze vessels, including supposed
water-clocks, found together at Wotton, Surrey, and described in
Proc. Soc. Antiq., xxvil., 76. Presented by J. H. C. Hvelyn, Esq.
A series of Late Keltic cinerary urns found near Hitchin, Herts.
Presented by F. Ransom, Esq.
(d) Foreign.—Crystal pygmy implements from Ceylon, described
in Spolta Zeylanica, Dec., 1914. Collected and presented by Principal
Hartley.
Bronze sword of unusual dimensions and type from India.
Bronze socketed axe-head found in Asiatic Russia. Presented by
Sir Hercules Read, LL.D.
Iron sword and ornamented scabbard of the La Tene II. period
found in Canton Berne, Switzerland ; described in Proc. Soc. Antiq.,
xxvu., 107. Presented by Oscar C. Raphael, Hsq., FSA.
Two bronze swords from Germany. On deposit from the Tower
Armoury.
(2.) Romano-British.
Bronze lamp in the form of a dolphin, found at Brettenham,
near Thetford, Norfolk. Presented by Sir Hercules Read, LL.D.
Series of ‘‘ Samian” pottery found in London, and near Hitchin,
Herts. Presented by F. Ransom, Ksq.
(3.) Anglo-Saxon and Foreign Teutonic.
Weapons and fragments of a glass beaker and bronze bowl, from
a grave at Asgarby, Lines. Presented by C. KH. Robinson, Esq.
Sword found at Herringswell, Suffolk. Presented by Oscar C.
Raphael, Esq., F.S.A.
Gold finger-ring of the Viking period from the river-bed, Chew
valley, W.R. Yorks. Presented by Herbert Horsfall, Esq.
Sword with inlaid hilt of the Viking period, found in the Lea at
Edmonton, and described in Proc. Soc. Antig., xxvii., 217. Presented
by Sir Hercules Read, LL.D.
Trish penannular brooch, spear-head from Nottingham, Viking
swords and axe-head ; and spear-head, axe and scramasax from a
burial at Mannheim, Germany. On deposit from the Tower Armoury.
(4.) Medteval and later.
Remarkable bronze bow] of the 12th cent., engraved with scenes
in the life of St. Thomas. Presented by F. Ransom, Esq.
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A valuable collection of over 300 plaquettes, chiefly of bronze
and of Italian origin, dating from the 16th cent. Presented by
T. Whitcombe Greene, Esq., FSA.
Oval medallion of John Locke, painted in Japan in lacquer on
copper. Presented by Aubrey Le Blond, Esq.
Bronze medallion portrait of Queen Anne, from model by
O’Brisset. Presented by T. Whitcombe Greene, Esq., FSA.
(5.) Ceramic and Glass Collections.
Three large pottery vases probably of the Han dynasty, from
Yen-ling, Hsien, Honan. Presented by J. Brock, Esq.
A large series of pottery and porcelain vases from China, chiefly
of the Sung and Ming periods.
Persian pottery lamp of Mosque type, from Aleppo, Syria.
Four specimens of Persian pottery, 13th cent. Presented by
HI. van den Bergh, Esq., through the National Art-Collections Fund.
Series of cameo portraits in Derby biscuit-porcelain. Presented
by Sir Hercules Read, LL.D.
(6.) Collection illustrating various Religions.
Jain figure of 11th cent. obtained in India by the late Sir
Alfred Lyall, and presented in his memory.
A model standard, figures of Buddha, &c., in gilded wood from
Mandalay. Bequeathed by Mrs. Sale
A Japanese shrine, enamelled and gilt. Presented by Sir Edgar
Boehm, Bt.
(7.) Oriental and Ethnographical.
A large and remarkable series of oriental arms and armour
formerly exhibited at the Tower of London, including a number of
suits of armour mounted on models ; a fine series of matchlocks and
other firearms, two swivel guns, brass cannons and early Saracenic
helmets. On deposit from the Tower Armoury.
Guitar from the house of King Mwanga, Uganda, and knife
once used for human sacrifice in Ashanti. Presented by the Rt. Hon.
Austen Chamberlain. —
Series from the Wa Nyika tribes of British Hast Africa.
Presented by A. M. Champion, Esq.
Dress of fibre with human skull attached, worn by the chief juju
man of a secret society in S. Nigeria. Presented by Dr. J. Crawford
Macwell, C.M.G.
A collection from Togoland and N. Ashanti. Presented by Capt.
C. H. Armitage.
Stone pounders, axes, adzes, and other objects, mainly from the
Hervey Islands. Presented by E. L. Gruning, Esq.
BRITISH AND MEDIZVAL ANTIQUITIES, 47
CHRISTY COLLECTION.
During the year the Trustees have acquired by donation the
following among other objects, which have been transferred to the
Trustees of the British Museum :—
1. Hthnography of Africa.
Two carved wooden combs from Mendiland, Sierra Leone.
Presented by A. C. Hollis, Esq., C.M.G.
Two pottery figures, emblems of fertility, Lala tribe, Nigeria.
Presented by Mrs. Boyle.
Spear from the North Ikurava clan of the Munshis of the
Katsena Allah district, Muri Province, Nigeria, N.P. Presented by
Ronald S. Chapman, Esq.
2. Kthnography of Oceania.
A Philippine and two Masai spears, and three Bushman arrows
(one with stone point). Presented by A. W. F. Fuller, Esq.
A reed with one end cleft and the other pierced, Philippine
Islands. Presented by A. D. Power, Esq.
3. Ethnography of America.
Wooden painted doll, from Navajo and Hopi Indians. Presented
by Mrs. G. Holmes Thomas.
In addition to the above donations the Christy Trustees have
acquired by purchase a series of openwork stone and shell ornaments,
also a number of clubs, axes, and articles of dress, from the Solomon
Islands.
Charles H. Read.
48 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
DEPARTMENT OF Corns AND MEDALS.
I.—Remstration and Arrangement.
1. Greek Series.
459 coins recently acquired have been registered and incor-
porated, and numerous casts and electrotypes of coins not in the
British Museum have been incorporated. Various collections of ~
coins offered have been examined and selections made. A systematic
re-examination of the coins, which had in former years been set aside
as duplicates, has been begun. ‘The bibliography of Greek Numis-
matics has been kept up to date, and additions made to the Card
Index of coin-types.
2. Roman Series.
72 coins recently acquired have been registered and incorporated.
A large collection of casts of Roman medallions presented by Comm.
Francesco Gnecchi has been arranged for reference. Collections
offered have been examined and selections made. The Roman
Imperial denarii of the second half of the 3rd cent. have been
examined on behalf of a numismatist studying the subject. The
bibliography has been kept up to date.
3. British and Colonial Series.
613 coins, medals and tokens recently acquired have been regis-
tered and 337 incorporated. Collections offered have been examined
and selections made. The coins in the Bodleian Library and
Ashmolean Museum have been examined. Re-arrangements in
accordance with recent researches have been made in the following
series: the coinage of the 8th—9th cent. ; the short-cross series
(Henry I].—Henry III.); the 17th cent. tokens of the counties
from Rutland to Yorks and Wales, and the 18th cent. tokens of
Somerset and Scotland ; the war medals later than 1760.
4, Medieval and Modern Series.
130 coins and medals recently acquired have been registered and
90 incorporated, and 26 casts of coins not in the British Museum
incorporated. The re-arrangement of the series of Northern Italy
has been begun in accordance with the King of Italy’s Corpus.
Collections of coins offered have been examined and selections made.
The casts of Italian medals not in the British Museum have been
arranged for reference in a new cabinet.
5. Oriental Series.
222 coins recently acquired have been registered and incor-
porated. The coins in the Stein Collection from Central Asia have
been revised ; the re-examination of the duplicates has been begun ;
the coins of the modern Indian States and of the sub-Sassanian
series have been studied and various collections submitted have been
examined and selections made.
6. Departmental Library.
The re-cataloguing of the library of numismatic works on the
card system has been begun, and about two-thirds of the books
catalogued.
DEPARTMENT OF COINS AND MEDALS. 49
7. Exhibition.
A selection of coins and medals illustrating the history of the
Netherlands and their relations with this country has been exhibited.
8. Safety of the Collections.
A large and representative selection of the more valuable coins
and medals in the collection has been removed to a place of greater
safety than the Medal Room for the period of the War.
I].— Publications.
1. Catalogue of Greek Coins.
Coins of Arabia, Mesopotamia, &c., by G. F. Hill.
619 coins have been arranged and catalogued. The historical
introductions to the mints of Mesopotamia, Babylonia and Assyria
have been written.
2. Catalogue of English Coins.
Norman Kings, by G. C. Brooke.
The text down to signature Bb has been passed for Press ;
the rest of the work, with the exception of the Indexes, is in type.
3. Catalogue of Indian Coins.
Hindu Coins, by J. Allan.
491 coins have been arranged and catalogued. Classifications
have been worked out for the early anonymous cast bronze, and the
silver punch-marked coins.
4, Medals.
Select Italian Medals, by G. F. Hill.
This portfolio, with 50 plates, has been completed and published.
III.— Acquisitions.
The total number of coins and medals added to the Department
during the year 1915 was 3,655, of which 253 were of gold, 2,763
of silver, 473 of ‘bronze and 166 of other metals.
The following table shows the numbers of the new acquisitions
classified according to the several series to which they belong :—
A dae , Other
Class. Gold. | Silver. | Bronze. Metals, | 20tal.
Greek : : * : 5 4 8 92 116 = 216
Roman 5 : 3 F : : 6 b4 33 — 73
British and Colonial . , : : Wain 2,355 201 105 2,838
Medizeval and Modern 3 : jal 97 70 23 201
Oriental . ; 5 i : ; 51 184 53 = 288
Chinese : . : : F f — 1 — 38 39
Total : ; 253 2,763 473 166 3,655
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Of the above 640 have been presented, viz. 12 of gold, 219 of
silver, 287 of bronze and 122 of other metals.
The following is a list of benefactors to the Department of Coins
and Medals during the past year :—
The Rt. Hon. the Earl Spencer, K.G. ; the Deputy Master of the
Mint ; the Government of Madras ; the Government of the United
Provinces ; the Director of Agriculture for the Central Provinces ;
the Society of Antiquaries; the British School in Egypt; the
National Art Collections Fund ; the Bombay Branch of the Royal
Asiatic Society ; the American Numismatic Society ; J. Allan, Esq. ;
Signor Arturo Anzani; R. D. Banerji, Esq., M.A. ; J. E. Baskett,
Hsq. ; Miss E. Boyer-Brown ; E. C. Birch, Esq.: W. H. Buckler,
Weg.; Albert, H.*Caslon, Hsqe, CS ‘Churton, iisque sarc:
Cockerell, Esq. ; Richard Dalton, Esq. ; Guy Dickins, Esq.; Rev.
Francis J. Eld; Miss Helen Farquhar; J. T. R. Fussell, Esq. ;
Henry Garside, Esq.; Sir Hamilton Goold-Adams, G.C.M.G. ;
R. W. Goulding, Esq.; A. S. F. Gow, Esq. ; 8. W. Grose, Esq. ;
W.G. Groves, Esq. ; H. A. Grueber, Hsq., F.S.A.; F. D. Harford,
Hsq., C.V.O. ; D. T. Harris, Esq. ; Lionel Heath, Esq. ; Gray Hill,
Hsg.; J. R. Kelly, Esq.; L. A. Lawrence, Esq., F.S.A.; Prof.
Dr. J. Leite de Vasconcellos; T. O. Mabbott, Esq. : George
Macdonald, Esq., C.B.; Alex. Macrae, Esq., M.D.; J. Grafton
Milne, Hsq.; Ellis H. Minns, Esq.; Professor C. Oman; Don
Guillermo de Osma; C. R. Peers, Esq., F.S.A.; Mrs. J. E.
Powell; A. E. Press, Esq.; Sir Hercules Read, LL.D.; Rev.
Edgar Rogers ; Maurice Rosenheim, Hsq., F.S.A. ; Horace Sandars,
Esq., F.S.A.; T. Sheppard, Esq., F.G.S. ; Ernest B. Smith, Esq. ;
A. H. Smith, Hsq.; J. Henderson Smith, Hsq.; Mrs. Alfred
Sotheby ; Messrs. Spink and Son, Ltd.; W. Barclay Squire, Hsq.,
¥.S.A.; Henry Symonds, Hsq., F.S.A.; HE. Timperley, Esq. ;
Charles Tite, Esq. ; Sir William Treloar, Bart.; Dr. L. O. Tudeer ;
Henry Van den Bergh, Hsq.; Rev. J. A. Vanes; Rev. Hedley
Vicars; W. H. Valentine, Esq.; Emery Walker, Esq., F.S.A. ;
Percy H. Webb, Esq.; H. Nelson Wright, Hisq., I1.C.8.; A. M.
Woodward, Esq.
ITV .—Remarkable Coins and Medals.
The year has been marked by the acquisition of a large selection
of English coins from the collection made by the late Sir John
Evans. Taken as a whole this is the most important addition to the
English series that has been made since the purchase of the Roberts
Collection in 1810. Among the pieces of outstanding interest may
be mentioned the following: A gold Penny of Henry IIL., one of
six specimens now existing of the first gold coinage of Hngland
which was ordered by Henry III. in 1257; a set of the Florin,
Half-florin and Quarter-florin of Edward III. (only one other
complete set is at present known of this first attempt of Edward III.
to establish a gold coinage) ; also a fine specimen of the very rare
first noble of the same reign; a heavy and a light Half-noble of
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Henry IV., the former probably unique ; and an extremely rare
Quarter-noble of the heavy issue of Hdward IV., one of two
specimens known of the issue previous to the introduction of the
Rose Noble, or Rial.
Of the individual coins acquired, the following are the most
important :—
1. Greek Series :—
Lysimacheia in T hrace.—Seven bronze coins restruck on Seleucid
coins in the 3rd—2nd cent. B.c. Presented by W. H. Buckler, Esq.
Autocane in Aeolis.—A rare bronze coin of the 4th cent. B.c.,
types, heads of Zeus and Athena. Presented by Prof. C. Oman.
Alabanda in Caria.—A bronze coin of Antoninus Pius, rev.
Dionysus. Presented by W. H. Buckler, Esq.
Alinda in Caria.—An unpublished silver coin of the 1st cent.
B.C., obv. Head of Heracles, rev. Heracles standing.
Cotiaéum in Phrygia.—A very fine specimen of a bronze coin of
Philip Senior, rev. Cybele in lion-car. Presented by W. H. Buckler,
Esq.
Temenothyrae in Phrygia—A rare bronze “medallion” of
Philip Senior, rev. Artemis in car drawn by two deer. Presented
by Messrs Spink & Son.
Cappadocia.—King Ariaramnes (about 280-230 B.c.). A rare
bronze coin with his portrait, rev. Horseman.
Cyprus.—An unusual variety of the silver stater of Azbaal, king
of Citium (449-425 B.c.), with the stag on the reverse in a half-
standing position. Presented by Sir Hamilton Goold-Adams,
G.C.M.G.
Barce in Cyrenaica. A very rare silver stater of the early 5th
cent. B.c.; obv. Silphium plant; rev. Bull standing before palm-tree.
Aralia.—Sabaean and Himyarite kings. <A large and important
selection of very rare coins, including one of the only two known
gold coins of the series, and nine coins of six rulers of the latest
period (1st—2nd cent. after Christ). From the collection of the
late Col. W. F. Prideaux, C.S.I.
A fine specimen of a silver coin of the latest Himyarite period,
obv. Arab head, rev. Bucranium. Presented by Dr. Alex. Macrae.
2. Roman and Byzantine Series :—
Two rare aurei of Galba; one with rev. S.P.Q.R. OB C.S.
(hitherto only known in silver); the other with rev. DIVA
AVGVSTA (Livia ?).
A rare double siliqua of Julian IT., struck at Sirmium and found
at Bulbourne, near Tring.
Four rare gold coins of ‘Hzana, Chaleb, Esbael and Bachasa (?)
kings of Axum (Aethiopia) of the 4th—5th cent. after Christ.
From the collection of the late Col. W. F. Prideaux.
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Two bronze coins of Anaeb and Joel, kings of Axum. Presented
by Signor A. Anzant.
3. British and Colonial Series :-—
A London penny of type V of William II. ALGAR.ON.LVNDN.
Presented by L. A. Lawrence, Esq. F.S.A.
A half-crown of Charles I., struck at York ; on the reverse to
right of crown, a small letter, apparently B, for Nicholas Briot.
Presented by Miss Helen Farquhar.
Fifty-one 17th. cent. traders’ tokens of Somerset. Presented by
Charles Tite, Esq.
Unique silver plaque of the time of Charles II., engraved with
portraits of Charles I. and Charles I1., and an inscription: ‘ Give
thy Judgments, O God, unto the King and thy Righteousnesse to
the King’s Sonn.” Presented by the Rev. Francis J. Hild.
4, Medieval and Modern Series :—
A gold Merovingian tremissis of the 7th cent., attributed to
Pfalzel in Rhenish Prussia. Presented by A. H. Press, Esq.
An unpublished gold solidus of Ervigius king of the Visigoths
(680-687 A.D.), struck at Elvira in Spain.
A gold coin of Alfonso VIII. of Castile (1158-1214), imitated
from contemporary Moorish coins, with ALF and a cross added.
A silver triple-daler of Christian IV. of Denmark (1588-1648).
Presented by the Rt. Hon. the Earl Spencer, K.G.
A series. of rare Portuguese Colonial Coins from the Grogan
Collection, including a unique double Xerafim of Don Pedro II. ; a
Xerafim of the same ruler struck at Diu, and six other unique Goa
coins of various rulers.
5. Oriental Series :—
A fine series of gold, silver, and copper coins of various
Muhammadan dynasties from the collection formed by the late
Colonel W. F. Prideaux, C.S.I. These include rare coins of the
Umayyad and Abbasid caliphates of South Arabian mints, a unique
series of coins of the Rasulid dynasty, the Imams of Sana, the
Imams of Sa’ada and other South Arabian dynasties, a small collec-
tion of the coins of Harar, which are almost unknown in European
collections, and rarities from Central Asian and Indian mints.
A very rare gold coin of Abd al-Rahim, a feudatory of al-Mansur
of Valencia, struck at Valencia between 470-485 a.u. Presented by
Horace Sandars, Esq., FSA.
A series of 23 early Hindu copper coins of various states.
Presented by H. Nelson Wright, Esq., I.C.S8.
A series of 109 rupees of Shah Alam II. of Oudh mints, and of
his successors the independent Shahs of Oudh from the Rai Bareli
find. Presented by the Government of the United Provinces.
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6. Casts and Electrotypes :—
The collection of casts and electrotypes of coins and medals not
in the British Museum has been increased by the following important
gifts :
84 plates of casts of coins of Ancient Italy and Sicily in the
McClean Collection, Cambridge. rom the Director of the Fitz-
william Museum.
19 boxes of casts of coins from recent auction sales. From
Messrs. Spink & Son.
V.—Students and Visitors.
The number of visits made to the Department of Coins and
Medals by students and others during the year 1915 was 2,150, the
average for the preceeding ten years being 4,080.
Gif. Aull.
o4 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
BririsH Musrum (Natura History).
STATEMENT of Progress made in the ARRANGEMENT and
Description of the CoiLecrions, and Account of OBJECTS
added to them, in the Year 1915.
GENERAL PROGRESS.
Visitors.
The total number of visits made by the public to the Natural
History Museum during 1915 was 433,581, as compared with
420,914 in 1914.
The attendance on Sunday afternoons was 48,409, as against
46,960 in the previous year.
The average daily attendance for all open days was 1,194 ; for
weekdays, 1,238 ; and for Sunday afternoons, 931.
It will be noted that the figures for 1915 show a considerable
increase on those for 1914.
Classes of London County Council School Teachers have again
visited the Museum under the guidance of Mr. Leonard, the Official
Guide, who has given them a series of demonstrations in the
galleries.
Parties of wounded soldiers from the hospitals in and around
London have visited the Museum in large numbers, and the services
of Mr. Leonard have been in constant demand to explain the exhibits
to the men. Warm appreciation of his services in this capacity has
been expressed by the hospital authorities and soldiers.
Swiney Lectures.
Dr. J. D. Falconer gave his second course of Swiney Lectures
in November and December, the subject being, ‘Ice and the Ice
Age.”
The lectures, twelve in number, were delivered in the theatre at
the Victoria and Albert Museum, and were attended on an average
by 143 persons a lecture, as compared with 122 in the previous
year.
Museums Association.
A report on the proceedings of the Annual Conference of the
Museums Association, held in July at the Victoria and Albert
Museum, was submitted by Dr. Bather, who represented the Natural
History Museum at the Conference. The two main subjects for
discussion were, ‘“‘ Museums and the War” and ‘‘ Museums in relation
to Education.” The members visited the Natural History Museum,
where demonstrations were given by some of the staff.
The War.
Up to the end of the year 1915, 58 members of the staff of the
Natural History Museum have joined the Colours, with the permission
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of the Trustees, for service during the war. In addition, 31 tem-
porary assistants and outside workers associated with the Museum,
and 61 sons of members, or of former members, of the staff are
serving in either the Navy, the Regular Army, or the Territorials.
With one exception, every man of military age on the staff has
offered himself for attestation, and been either accepted or excused
on the ground of unfitness.
The Museum has been able to render assistance to Government
Departments in various matters connected with the war. The
following may be mentioned :—
The Zoological Department received from the Military Hospital,
Tooting, a specimen of a leech which had been removed from
the nose of a soldier invalided home from the Dardanelles. The
leech was found to belong to a Mediterranean species well known
to give trouble by entering the nasal cavities or the larynx of man,
being introduced when swallowing water, or by crawling into
the nostrils. As the facts of the case suggested that our soldiers
serving in the Near Hast might be exposed to a danger unknown to
the Medical Departments of the Navy and Army, a report on the
matter, prepared by Dr. Harmer, was sent to the Head of the
Medical Department of the Admiralty and to the Director General
of the Army Medical Service, from both of whom acknowledgments
have been received, together with an intimation that the medical
officers serving in the Mediterranean would be notified in order
that the necessary precautions might be taken. ‘The report has also
been reproduced in the Journal of the Royal Naval Medical Service.
Advice has been given by the Entomological Department in the
matter of the eradication of vermin.
In connection with this subject the Trustees have issued a leaflet
for general information on “The Danger of Disease from Flies and
Lice ”’ (price Id. for six copies, 1s. for 100), and also a pamphlet on
“The Louse and its Relation to Disease’ (price 1d.), uniform with
the pamphlet on “ The House-fly as a Danger to Health,” published
two years ago. Steps have been taken to give these pamphlets the
widest possible circulation, and large numbers of them have been
placed at the service of the Admiralty and the War Office for the
use of the Medical Services of the Navy and Army.
The Botanical Department has been consulted by the Naval
Air Service as regards the use of a suitable wood material for air-
ship construction. The same Department has given help to the
War Office by answering inquiries of a varied nature; for example,
as to an organism which was damaging the fabric of air-ships:
it proved to be a fungus; the examination of oats with a view to the
discovery of poisonous seeds, in connection with an outbreak of
presumed fodder poisoning at a Military Veterinary Hospital.
The Army Council have expressed their appreciation of the
assistance rendered by the Museum in connection with the inquiry
into moth infestation of Army biscuit. The inquiry has given
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valuable results as regards methods of treatment for the prevention
of such infestation. An exhibit illustrating the subject, brought up
to date, has been set up in the Central Hall. (Cf. B. M. Return,
1914, page 123.)
The cases of specimens illustrating the part played by insects as
carriers of disease have been largely used for instruction of classes
of men of the Royal Army Medical Corps, the Sanitary Corps,
and Army Veterinary Corps. Parties of these men have been
brought to the Museum almost daily for demonstrations and lectures
by their officers.
The War Office having, through the Press, drawn attention to
the penalty attaching to the destruction of Homing- or Carrier-
pigeons, a case of birds has been placed in the Central Hall to show
the difference between these pigeons and the ordinary Dovecot-
pigeons, Wood-pigeons, Rock-doves and Stock-doves. Explanatory
labels have also been prepared. The specimens of Carrier-pigeons
exhibited were specially selected and presented to the Museum by
Captain A. H. Osman, of the Pigeon Service Branch of the War
Office.
Fibernation of the House-fy.
Considerable attention has been given in the Entomological
Department to the problem of the hibernation of the house-fly. As
a result of the publicity given to the matter in the Press and
elsewhere, a very large number of hibernating and other flies found
in houses in the winter have been sent to the Museum ; and in
this way it is hoped to get evidence on a wide scale. Very few of
the specimens so far received are true house-flies, and none of these
had been found in a hibernating condition. The vast majority of
the flies found hibernating proved on examination to belong to a
species (Pollenia rudis) which is not unlike the house-fly and which
is frequently mistaken for it. This species lives out of doors
in the summer, and only enters houses at the approach of cold
weather in order to find shelter and a place in which to hibernate.
Its mode of life is different from that of the house-fly, and there is
no reason to apprehend any danger to health owing to its presence
in the house. While the evidence so far obtained gives no support
to the view that house-flies usually hibernate in the adult state, it
helps greatly to explain how that view may have arisen and why it
is so widely entertained.
Protection of Animals.
The question of the protection of birds and other animals in our
Crown Colonies and Protectorates continues to be the subject of
considerable correspondence between the Colonial Office and the
Museum. Papers relating to Zanzibar, Fiji, Gambia, Trinidad,
Gibraltar, Weihaiwei, British Honduras, South Georgia, Federated
Malay States, Turks and Caicos Islands, Gilbert and Ellice Islands,
have been sent to the Museum for observations and reports.
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Various recommendations have been made for the consideration
of the Secretary of State, having for their object the better protec-
tion of birds, especially those species which are slaughtered for the
trade in plumes.
Investigation of Antarctic Whales.
A report on whales, based on the notes made by the late Major
G. E. H. Barrett-Hamilton during his mission to South Georgia,
has been prepared by Mr. M. A. C. Hinton and forwarded to the
Colonial Office. The document is of considerable importance in
relation to the question of the threatened extinction of some of the
species of whales found in the Antarctic seas, and it will be laid in
due course before the Inter-Departmental Committee on Whales.
Dr. Harmer has also submitted a report on the result of his.
study of official papers and statistics on the whaling operations at
South Georgia. Dr. Harmer draws attention to the fall in the
number of Humpback Whales captured, a reduction which is so
marked as to give rise to grave anxiety for the future of the species.
The whalers are now devoting their labours principally to the larger
species, such as the Fin and Blue Whales, and this appears to be
due to the fact that the number of Humpbacks in those waters
has seriously diminished.
Stranded Whales.
The systematic inquiry into the stranding of Cetacea on the
British coasts, started with the concurrence and help of the
Board of Trade, has been continued. Owing to the abnormal con-
ditions caused by the war, the total number of stranded specimens
reported only reached 28, as compared with 76 in 1913 and 57
in 1914. The year’s record has nevertheless been of exceptional
interest, in that a male specimen of ‘“ Cuvier’s Whale” (Ziphius
cavirostris), which was stranded at Fethard, Co. Wexford, has been
obtained for the collection. It is noteworthy that the first specimen
received at South Kensington after the inauguration of the arrange-
ment with the Board of Trade proved to be another Ziphius caviros-
tris, probably a female, so that two skeletons of this rare cetacean,
both from the Irish coast, have through this arrangement been
preserved. The Natural History Museum had hitherto possessed
no Kuropean specimen of the species. A specimen of the rare
““Sowerby’s Whale” (Mesoplodon bidens) was stranded off the coast
of Inverness. The thanks of the Trustees are again due to the
Receivers of Wreck and Coastguard Officers who have given valuable
assistance in the prosecution of this inquiry. A report (the third)
on the Cetacea stranded during the year 1915 will be issued early
am 1916.
Rowland Ward Bequest.
The specimens received during 1915 as gifts from the Trustees
of the Rowland Ward Bequest amounted to seventeen items in all,
58 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
including a Somali Rhinoceros, a Hudson Bay Walrus, a recon-
structed model of a Dodo, two Darwin’s Rheas (with sets a
Manchurian Leopard, and a Siberian Wolf.
Doubleday Collection.
The Doubleday Collection of British and European Lepidoptera,
which was deposited on loan in the Bethnal Green Museum in 1876,
has been transferred by the Board of Education to the Natural
History Museum (as being a more appropriate place for it). The
collection has been placed near the other study collections of
Lepidoptera in the Entomological Department, under the same
conditions of tenure as existed with regard to it prior to the transfer.
Chatham Elephant.
In the autumn of 1913, information was received from Mr.
Sydney Turner, of Luton, Chatham, of a discovery of fossil bones
in the grounds of the Royal School of Military Engineering, Upnor,
near Chatham. Dr. C. W. Andrews, an Assistant in the Department
of Geology, was sent to make an investigation on the spot, and was
at once able to identify the remains as those of an elephant. The
War Office and the Commandant gave permission to excavate the
skeleton and remove it to the Museum. During the dry season of
1914 the outbreak of war prevented the work, but in 1915 the
excavation was proceeded with, and the specimen was successfully
removed to South Kensington. The find proved to comprise the
greater part of a skeleton of Hlephas antiquus (probably the largest
elephant yet discovered in Britain), though of the skull only the
molar teeth, one tusk, and part of the lower jaw are capable of
preservation. The discovery is especially important as being the
first occasion on which the skeleton of this species has been found
in England in direct association with the teeth.
The Trustees have recorded their appreciation of the action of
the War Office authorities and of the Commandant of the Royal
School of Military Engineering, Chatham, in allowing the excava-
tions to be made, and of the valuable assistance rendered by the
officers to Dr. Andrews during the progress of the excavations.
Presents.
The total number of gifts received during the year by the
several Departments was 1,825, as compared with 2,336 in the
previous year. Many of these comprised large numbers of
individual specimens. The details of all the more important of
them will be found in the reports of the Keepers of Departments,
but the following are mentioned here also as being of special interest
or value :—
From Lady Church—the valuable collection of gem-stones formed
by her husband, the late Sir Arthur Church, K.C.V.O., consisting
of 203 specimens, besides 8 diamond points and 21 diamond
brilliants employed in the setting of two of them.
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From Mr. A. L. Butler—an important collection of about 2,000
specimens of birds and a number of small mammals, from the
Upper Sudan, all admirably prepared and labelled.
From Mr. C. Boden Kloss—an interesting collection of zoological
specimens from Siam.
From Mr. George Lewis—a collection of about 7,000 specimens
of coleoptera from various localities, contained in a cabinet and seven
store-hoxes ; also a number of papers published by Marseul and the
donor.
From Mr. H. J. Elwes, F.R.S.—a further selection of specimens
from his large collection of butterflies.
From the Executors of the late Mr. William Hill, of Hitchin—
a cabinet containing about 2,700 slides of thin sedimentary rocks,
including the original preparations on which Mr. Hill’s published
writings were based, and about 400 slides from the collection of the
late Mr. Jukes-Browne, F.R.S.
From the Committee of the Middlesex Hospital—the collection of
diatoms and literature relating thereto formed by the late Mr. John
Augustus Tulk, of Chertsey.
From Mrs. Emily Owen—78 volumes of works by her father-
in-law, the late Sir Richard Owen, mostly author’s copies con-
taining his autograph notes.
From the Zoological Society—five volumes of a MS. Catalogue
of the mammals formerly in the Society’s old museum, many of
the specimens in which were transferred to the British Museum
about the year 1851, when the Society’s museum was broken up.
From Mr. C. D. Sherborn—Sir Richard Owen’s own interleaved
copy of his work on “ British Fossil Mammals and Birds.”
From Prof. H. F. Osborn—lour hypothetically restored busts
of fossil men, and restored models of the skulls and brain-casts of
Pithecanthropus and Koanthropus (Piltdown).
Purchases.
Purchases have practically been restricted to a few transactions
which partook of the nature of liabilities incurred prior to the
outbreak of war. Among the more important of them special
attention may be drawn to the following :—
The second and final instalment of the Lowe collection of West
Indian Birds, comprising 1,195 skins; the fifth instalment of the
Distant collection of Rhynchota ond other insects ; the first instal-
ment of Dr. Malcolm Burr’s collection of Dermaptera (earwigs),
consisting of 4,500 specimens (55 being types and 390 co-types) ; a
collection of 1,500 fossils, from the Bala rocks of North Wales,
made by the iate Mr. Thomas Ruddy, all labelled with localities ;
fossil remains of Woolly Rhinoceros and Mammoth from the frozen
earth of Northern Siberia ; the W. E. Cutler collection of fossils
from the Upper Cretaceous of Alberta, Canada, comprising a
considerable part of a large herbivorous Dinosaur, 7rachodon, bones
of Dinosaurians, and other remains.
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Exchanges and Gifts of Duplicates.
Exchanges of duplicate specimens have been made with various
institutions and individuals.
A replica of the restored plaster cast of the Piltdown skull and
mandible has been given to the Public Museum at Cheltenham.
Duplicate specimens have been presented as follows:—
Zoological specimens (other than entomology)—to the Royal
Scottish Museum, Edinburgh ; the North Staffordshire Field Club:
Museum, Hanley; Warrington Museum; Newbury Museum ;
Dundee Central Museum; Sheffield Museum; Tring Museum ;
Dr. R. F. Leiper ; and Dr. N. Annandale (Calcutta).
Entomological specimens—to Sheffield Museum; Prof. Chr.
Aurivillius (Stockholm) ; Prof. T. D. A. Cockerell (Colorado) ; Mr.
H. J. Franklin; the Rev. F. D. Morice; and Mr. A. M. Lea
(Adelaide).
Fossils and casts of fossils—to Maidstone Museum ; the Welsh
National Museum, Cardiff ; Dr. Eliot Curwen ; Prof. A. G. Nathorst
(Stockholm) ; Dr. Marie ©. Stopes ; and Prof. C. Schuchert (Yale
University).
Meteorite fragments—to the Geological Survey of India, Calcutta..
(N.B.—AII the individuals named have presented specimens or
otherwise benefited the Museum.)
Publications.
The following works on Natural History have been published
during the year :—
Catalogue of Books, Manuscripts, &e., in the British Museum
(Natural History). By B. B. Woodward. Vol. v. SO—2Z.
Pp. 1,957—2,403. 4to. 11.
British Antarctic (‘Terra Nova’) Expedition, 1910. Natural
History Report: Zoology. to.
Vol. i., No. 2. Natural History of the Adélie Penguin.
By Staff-Surgeon G. Murray Levick, r.N. Pp. 55—84:
21 plates. 5s.
Vol. 1. No. 3. ‘Cetaee#: ) By D.. Gi -Lilhe: mae rp,
85—124: 14 text-figures and 8 plates. 7s. 6d.
Vol. ii., No. 2.°' Oligeeheta.) “By H. AC” Bayligoee:at
Pp. 13—18: 1 plate. 1s.
Vol. ii., No. 3. Parasitic Worms. By R. T. Leiper, D.sc.,
and Surgeon E. L. Atkinson, r.x. Pp. 19—60: 11 text-
figures and 5 plates. 7s. 6d.
Vol. ii., No. 4. Mollusca, Part I. By E. A. Smith, 1.0.
Pp. 61—112: 2 plates. 4s.
Vol. ii, No. 5. Nemertinea. By H. A. Baylis, B.a. Pp.
113—134: 4 text-figures and 2 plates. 2s. 6d.
Vol. iii, No. 1. Pyenogonida. By W. T. Calman, pD.sc.
Pp. 74: 22 text-figures. 5s.
Report on Cetacea stranded on the British coasts. By S. F.
Harmer, sc.D., F.R.S. No. 2. Cetacea stranded during 1914.
Pp. 16: 3 maps, 1 text-figure. 4to. 1s. 6d.
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Catalogue of Ungulate Mammals. Vol.iv. By R. Lydekker,
F.R.S. Pp. xxi., 438: 56 text-figures. 8vo. 10s. 6d.
Catalogue of the Fresh-water Fishes of Africa. By G. A.
Boulenger, F.R.s. Vol. iii, Pp. xii, 526: 351 text-figures.
Imp. 8vo. 2. 5s.
Revision of the Ichneumonidze. By Claude Morley. Part IV.
Pp. x., 167: 1 coloured plate. 8vo. 6s.
The Syrphide of the Ethiopian Region. By Mario Bezzi.
Pp. 146: 28 text-figures. 8vo. 6s.
Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phaleenze (Moths). By Sir George
F. Hampson, Bart. Supplement, Vol. i. Atlas of 41 coloured
plates. 8vo. Ii. 13s. 6d.
Catalogue of Mesozoic Plants. Part VI. The Cretaceous
Flora, Part I]—bLower Greensand (Aptian) Plants of Great
Britain. By Marie C. Stopes, p.sc. Pp. xxxvi., 360: 112 text-
figures and 32 plates. 8vo. Il. 1s.
Guide to the Fossil Remains of Man in the Department of
Geology and Paleontology. By A. 8. Woodward, LL.D., F.R.S.,
Pp. 33: 4 plates and 12 text-figures. 8vo. 4d.
Instructions for Collectors, No. 12—Worms. By H. A. Baylis.
Pp. 23: 17 text-figures. 8vo. 3d.
Economic Series, No. 2—The Louse and its Relation to Disease.
Its Life History and Habits, and how to deal with it. By B. F.
Cummings. Pp.16: 1 plate, and two text-figures. 8vo. ld.
Economic Leaflets, No. 1—The Danger of Disease from Flies
and Lice. Pp. 4. 8vo. Id. for 6 copies, 1s. for 100.
Reprints have been issued of the ‘Guide to the Specimens
illustrating the Races of Mankind (Anthropology),” price 4d. ; and
of the pamphlet, ‘‘ The House-Fly as a Danger to Health,” price 1d.
Selections of the natural history publications of the Museum
have been sent to free libraries and other institutions in Great
Britain and Ireland, to Colonial, Indian, and foreign (neutral)
museums, libraries, and scientific societies, and to persons who have
benefited the Museum by helping in the preparation of the works, or
in other ways.
The undermentioned works were in preparation during 1915 :—
Library Catalogue. Supplement, Vol. i.
“Terra Nova” Antarctic Report. Further Sections.
Report on Cetacea stranded on the British coasts during
1915, by Dr. 8. F. Harmer, F.z.s.
Catalogue of Bats, Vol. ii., by Dr. Knud Andersen.
Catalogue of Ungulate Mammals, Vol.V., by R. Lydekker, r.r.s.
Catalogue of the Freshwater Fishes of Africa, Vol. iv., by
G. A. Boulenger, F.R.s.
Third Report on Economic Zoology.
Illustrations of British Flies, Second Series.
Illustrations of African Blood-sucking Flies, Vol. ii., by
EK. E. Austen.
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Catalogue of Moths, Supplement, Vol. ii., by Sir George F.
Hampson, Bart.
Flora of Jamaica, Vol. iv., by W. Fawcett and Dr. A. B.
Rendle, F.R.s.
Revision of Crombie’s Monograph of British Lichens, Part I.,
by Miss A. L. Smith.
Catalogue of the Sloane Herbarium, by J. Britten.
Catalogue of Fossil Fishes, Part V., by Dr. A. S. Wood-
ward, F.R.S.
Guide to British Lichens.
Economic Series, No. 3. Fleas as a Menace to Man and
Animals, by Rev. J. Waterston.
Economic Series, No. 4. Mosquitoes, by F. W. Edwards.
GENERAL LIBRARY.
The additions to the General Library during the past year have
been :—
By purchase - . - 356 volumes.
By transference from other
Departments - = - 5 volumes.
By donation = - - 840 volumes, 12 maps, and 21
photographs.
Morale - 1,201 volumes, 12 maps, and 21
—— photographs.
All the volumes and maps have been catalogued, press-marked
and put in their places, whilst 1,428 volumes have been bound in
617, and 6 have been repaired.
The extent of the collection on the 31st of December was
44, 963 volumes, 5,928 maps, and 864 photographs (not including
those in the Owen Collection of Drawings, &c.).
The accessions to the Departmental Libraries have also been.
catalogued as they came in, and duplicate transcripts of the titles.
have been returned with the books.
Altogether 2,923 title-slips have been written, 81 rewritten,
and 3,184 revised (independently of those prepared for printing).
There are now, on a rough estimate, 100,459 volumes (exclusive-
of continuations and minor separata) and 6,235 maps in the whole.
building.
The number of visits paid to the General Library during the.
year by Students and others (irrespective of the Staff and persons
to whom the use of a key is granted) was 1,804.
Donations have been received from a great number of Museums,
Academies and other corporate bodies, as well as from personal
donors. Included is a set of the works and memoirs of the late
Sir Richard Owen, K.C.B., being his personal copies and containing
his autograph notes, drawings and other memoranda, presented by
his daughter-in-law, Mrs. Emily Owen. These have been placed in,
BRITISH MUSEUM (NATURAL HISTORY)! 63
special presses with the letters of naturalists to Owen, largely
referring to specimens in the collections (presented in 1908) that
are now bound in twenty-seven volumes. The whole constitute, as
it were, a memorial to the distinguished naturalist who was the
prime and successful advocate for the separate establishment of the
Natural History Museum.
The printing of the Catalogue was completed with the issue of
the fifth volume ‘““SO—Z”’ in June. Letter ‘‘ A” of the Supplement,
which is estimated to contain upwards of 25,700 entries, has been
prepared for press.
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INDEX GENERUM ET SPECIERUM ANIMALIUM.
During the year considerable progress has been made with this
Index, under Mr. C. Davies Sherborn’s charge, and some 30,000
slips have been compiled and incorporated.
The manuscript has been consulted to a more than usual extent
during the past year by the Staff and Students, whilst many
enquiries have been replied to by Mr. Sherborn in correspondence.
The chief rarities secured for the Library by Mr. Sherborn
were :—The first and second issues of Swainson’s ‘“ Exotic Con-
chology,” 1821—22, and 1834—35 ; and a curiosity in the shape
of a previously unknown little work, ‘“‘ The Naturalists’ Pocket Book
for 1813,” by George Shaw of the British Museum.
The issues of Swainson formed the subject of a paper by C. D.
Sherborn and A. Reynell in the Proceedings of the Malacological
Society of London (Vol. xi, 1915, pp. 276—282).
InpEx Museum.
All the dissections exhibited in the Hall that are mounted in
preservative fluid have been inspected during the year, and several
have been resealed and many refilled.
Further progress has been made in the introductory series of
animals, plants and rocks, which, when completed, will be exhibited
in four table-cases in the middle of the Hall; twenty-four new
specimens have been prepared during the year for the fourth case
(Vertebrate Animals), and the series of minerals and rocks has been
roughly planned out.
The ‘Dental Exhibition,” consisting of skulls, Jaws and teeth
showing interesting features of dentition, which had been on view in
the Hall since July, 1914, was dispersed in July, 1915. One of
the two table-cases thus liberated was employed for exhibiting once
more, with some additions, the results of experiments conducted by
Lieut.-Col. W. W. O. Beveridge and Mr. J. Hartley Durrant with
a view to combating the ravages of certain beetles and moths that
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had been found to be injuring biscuits made for army service. In
the other case has been displayed a series of disease-carrying ticks
and some of their harmless relatives, twenty-eight specimens in all.
Small maps show the distribution of each of the species selected,
and any points of interest in the connection of the ticks with the
dissemination of the organisms of disease are explained in the labels
placed alongside the specimens.
The series of specimens illustrating the structure and the life-
history of house-flies has been increased during the year, and set out
in a new, specially designed table case: the series now includes
selected specimens of a male and a female of each of the four
species of house-fly most frequently met with, models, on an
enlarged scale, of the egg, larva, pupa and adult of the common
house-fly, Musca domestica, and representations of food contaminated
by flies, and refuse of the dust-bin serving as a breeding-place for
flies.
During the summer a new, specially designed table-case was set
up in the middle of the Hall to contain specimens illustrating the
life-history of the tropical rat-flea, Xenopsylla cheopis, a flea largely
responsible for the spread of plague in hot countries. The series as
at present displayed comprises a large model, x 200 linear, of a
male, together with a coloured drawing giving the names of the
external parts of the body, and models of an egg, a larva, and the
head and hind end of an adult female, and models, x 6,000 linear,
of plague bacilli and human blood-corpuscles. The model of the
male flea was previously shown in a small temporary case in the
Hall ; the others are new. Actual specimens are also shown of the
adult flea and a larva.
In July important additions were made in the Hall by intro-
ducing two large table-cases that had previously been sent to the
International Exhibition at Ghent, in 1913, as an illustration of the
work being done by the Museum in making known to the public the
important part played by insects in the spread of disease. In one of
these cases is a series of 335 pinned specimens of tsetse-flies, tabanid
flies and mosquitoes, with labels in Knglish and French, and small
maps explaining the distribution of each of the species shown ; also
coloured drawings of ten species of tsetse-flies, and some specimens
mounted in aleohol. In the other case are shown two models of one
of the disease-spreading mosquitoes, lnopheles maculipennis, twenty-
eight times (linear) the actual size, and twenty-six models
(x 6,000) explaining the complete life-history of the organism of
pernicious malaria, a parasite that is transmitted to man by this and
other mosquitoes.
A smaller case of the same collection contains a specimen and a
model (x 28) of the tiger-mosquito, Stegomyia fasciata, of interest as
being the cause of the spread of yellow-fever. The distribution
of this mosquito over the surface of the earth is explained by means
of a map in which the regions where the insect is found are marked
in red.
BRITISH MUSEUM (NATURAL HISTORY). 65
A new microscope, showing in rotation twelve slides of fleas,
lice and bugs, has been set up on the west side of the Hall; the
interest of each of the specimens in its relation to the spread of
disease is indicated in a label placed by the side of the microscope.
An explanatory guide-book to the specimens and models of
disease-spreading insects and ticks exhibited in the Hall is in
preparation, the pamphlet being to a large extent a compilation of
the labels that are attached to the specimens displayed, redrafted in
such a manner that they read consecutively. The guide-book will
be illustrated by fourteen text-figures, and consist of about fifty
pages.
L. Fletcher,
Director.
British Museum (Natural History),
26 February 1916.
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DEPARTMENT OF ZOooLoay.
I.—Arrangement and Conservation.
MAMMALIA.
Mammal Galleries.
Work in these as well as in the other Exhibition Galleries has |
been reduced to a minimum, in order to avoid unnecessary
expenditure during the War.
For many years the exhibited specimens of Mammals, Reptiles,
and Domestic Animals were in the charge of Mr. Richard Lydekker,
F.R.S. His death, on April 16, 1915, has left these important
parts of the public galleries without any special provision for their
arrangement. The value of the services he had given in rendering
the exhibited series attractive to visitors, in writing Guide Books,
and in many other ways, can hardly be overestimated.
In the Upper Mammal Gallery the Gorilla Case has been
rearranged, with the view of minimising some of the inconveniences
due to the reflection of light from the surface of the glass fronts of
the cases. The amount of light received by the eye from a black
specimen is often less than that reflected by the glass from the floor,
windows, and other parts of the gallery. Such specimens may thus
be hardly visible through the glass to an observer, who sees the floor
and his own reflection with undesirable distinctness.
In the Lower Mammal Gallery two squares of glass have been
removed in the large Buffalo Case, and have been replaced by sash
windows, facilitating access to the specimens.
The principal additions have been received by presentation from
the Trustees of the late James Rowland Ward, and they include the
following :—a Somali Rhinoceros (Lthinoceros licornis somaliensis),
an Atlantic Walrus (Odobenus rosmarus), a Chinese Leopard (Felis
fontaneiri), a Siberian Wolf (Canis lupus), a Ruffed Lemur (Lemur
vartus), a Tamandua Anteater (7amandua tetradactyla) and other
specimens. Lady Seton-Karr has given several remarkably fine
specimens selected from the collection of her late husband, the well-
known sportsman, Sir Henry Seton-Karr ; including two heads of
Wapiti (Cervus canadensis), a head of a Mule Deer (Odocoileus
hemionus) and a skull with horns of a Bighorn Sheep (Oris
canadensis). A recently born Russian Brown Bear (Ursus arctos),
presented by Dr. Maxime Goldberg, shows the striking disproportion
in size between young and adult Bears. Two Squirrels (Scurus
vulgaris fuscoater), from the Thuringian Forest, presented by
C. T. Seltman, Esq., and the head of a Diggle’s Hartebeest (Bubalis
tora digglei), the gift of W. H. Diggle, also deserve attention.
Prof. H. F. Osborn, of the American Museum of Natural History,
New York, has presented four busts representing reconstructions of
Pithecanthropus and the Piltdown, Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon
races of Man.
DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY. 67
Whale Room.—To the series of casts of flippers exhibited on the
walls of the galleries have been added preparations of the following
Cetacea :—Mesoplodon, from Rosslare ; Cuvier’s Whale (Ziphius
cavirostris), from Co. Wexford ; White-beaked Dolphin (Lageno-
rhynchus albirostris), from the Inner Hebrides ; Bottle-nosed Dolphin
(Tursiops truncatus), from St. Mary’s, Scilly Islands ; Common
Dolphin (Lelphinus delphis), from Co. Donegal.
Study Series —The usual work of labelling, registering and
incorporating the mammals added to the collection, and their skulls,
has been continued, though much impeded by the absence of the
lady label-writer hitherto employed.
The whole collection of skins of Chiroptera has been rearranged
and spaced, to facilitate Dr. Andersen’s work on the Order. The
rearrangement of the Ungulata has also been continued, ag the
result of the publication of the volumes of Mr. Lydekker’s Catalogue.
Mr. R. C. Wroughton, Mr. T. B. Fry, and Mr. Martin Hinton
have again afforded valuable help in working out accessions to the
collection, Mr. Wroughton especially in connection with the large
series obtained through the Bombay Natural History Society’s
Mammal Survey. The species have all been named, reports written
on them, and series selected for registration and distribution. Much
voluntary assistance has also been given by Miss G. M. Hayman in
cleaning skulls ; and this help has been of particular value owing
to the depletion of the ordinary staff. The services of Dr. Knud
Andersen have been continued for the preparation of the second
volume of the Catalogue of Bats.
The fourth volume of the Catalogue of Ungulates, by R.
Lydekker, was published in 1915, and the greater portion of the
fifth had been prepared before his death in April.
Osteological Room.—The arrangement of the skeleton collection
has made progress. A cabinet for the bones of large Ungulates has
been added, but the storage of the Equide is still in an unsatisfactory
state.
A number of new skeletons of British Birds have been prepared,
to replace old and imperfect specimens. A new Cabinet for Birds’
skeletons has been added.
A new sand-pit of large size has been constructed, and will be
specially useful for preparing the skeletons of Whales.
AVES.
The remounting of specimens in the General Gallery has made
considerable progress, and the families Phytotomide, Pittidee, Phile-
pittidee, Xenicide, Hirundinide, Muscicapidee, Campophagidee, and
Timeliidee have been completed, with distribution-maps, labels, &c.
Among the more noteworthy additions to the Gallery may be men-
tioned two examples of Darwin’s Rhea (/thea darwini) and a model
of the Dodo (Didus ineptus) presented by the Trustees of the late
James Rowland Ward.
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In the Bird Room the Bustards and Cranes have been arranged
in new cabinets. A large portion of the Passeres have been finally
arranged and spaced out. Printed labels of the contents have
been prepared for the drawers and the outsides of each cabinet. The
exact position of each species has been entered in the special
Reference Catalogue.
The Report on the Collections of Birds formed by the British
Ornithologists’ Union Expedition and the Wollaston Expedition to
Dutch New Guinea, 1909—1913, has been completed and published
in “The Ibis” Jubilee Supplement No. 2. The collection contained
3,395 skins of 312 species, of which 25 proved to be new to science
and 39 new to the collection, while there were also eggs of 15
species not previously represented. A complete account of the
Scientific results of the Expeditions will shortly appear in two quarto
volumes of about 1,200 pages, illustrated by 2 maps and 38 plates.
Register numbers have been put on 15,151 eggs of the Seebohm
Collection and 2,681 eggs of the Radcliffe Saunders Collection.
Mr. D. A. Bannerman has completed his series of Reports on the
Collections of the late Mr. Boyd Alexander from Annabon, Cameroon
Peak and the Manenguba Mountains.
Mr. Claude H. B. Grant has continued his work on the Collec-
tion formed by Capt. Gordon P. Cosens in Hast Africa.
Help in labelling and preparing specimens for incorporation was
also received from Mr. Arthur Denman, Mr. Lewis and Mr. Roy
Sheppard, who kindly gave up a good deal of their leisure time for
this purpose.
Mr. Court Treatt is still absent at the front on Military Service.
The more notable presents were the following :—
From the Bombay Natural History Society the types of three
new species. From Messrs. C. B. Kloss and H. C. Robinson a
collection of Siamese Birds, including the types of two new species.
From Mr. W. J. F. Williamson a collection of birds from Siam,
including the types of two new sub-species. [From Mr. A. L. Butler a
large and very valuable collection from the Sudan, including species
new to the British Museum Collection. From the Trustees of the
the late James Rowland Ward, two magnificent mounted specimens
of Darwin’s Rhea; a fine model of the Dodo and ‘other mounted
specimens for the Exhibition Gallery.
Among the more important purchases are :—
The remaining portion of the unique West Indian Collection
formed by Dr. Percy R. Lowe.
During the year the collection has been regularly consulted by
a large number of visitors; systematic work has been done on
various groups by Mr. W. L. Sclater, Mr. H. C. Stuart Baker, Mr.
C. H. B. Grant, Mr. D. A. Bannerman, Mr. G. M. Mathews, Mr. T.
Iredale, Dr. P. R. Lowe, Mr. H. F. Witherby, Lord Rothschild, F.R.S.,
Dr. HE. Hartert, Rev. F. C. R. Jourdain, Dr. H. Langton, the
Marquess of Tavistock, Miss A. Jackson, Col. R. G. Wardlaw-
Ramsay, Dr. C. B. Ticehurst, Rev. J. Waterston, Mr. L. Harrison,
DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY. 69
Prof. W. Bateson, F.R.S., Mr. C. F. M. Swynnerton, and Dr. V. G. L.
van Someren.
The following artists engaged in preparing drawings for forth-
coming books have also made regular use of the collection :-—Mr. H.
Gronvold, Mr. G. E. Lodge, Mr. Archibald Thorburn, Mr. R. Green,
Mr. H. Goodchild, Miss Medland, Major H. Jones.
DoMESTICATED ANIMALS.
The skeleton of the famous race-horse, ‘‘ St. Simon,” alluded to
in the last Return, has been re-articulated.
The additions to this series include the following :—
A remarkable Donkey, perhaps a Zebra-Ass Hybrid, from the
Gold Coast Colony, presented by Capt. C. H. Armitage, C.M.G. A
Cross-bred Karakul x Scotch Blackface Sheep, presented by the
Governors of the Edinburgh and Hast of Scotland College of Agri-
culture. A Great Dane Dog, presented by the Rowland Ward
Trustees, and a Blue Pug, presented by Miss Grace Bellamy.
A hybrid Greenfinch x Canary, presented by Fred Archer, Esq.
Piscks.
Rahibition Galleries—In the Fish Gallery several of the old
exhibits have been remodelled, or restuffed and repainted ; nearly
all the fishes of the families Scombridz and Carangidz have been
treated in this way. Some new exhibits have also been added and
amongst these attention may be drawn to casts of a Rainbow Trout
(Salmo irideus) and a Brown Trout (Salmo trutta) made from fishes
presented by P. O. Boase, Esq.
In the British Saloon the exhibition of British Freshwater Fishes
has been reorganised ; nearly all the specimens formerly exhibited
have been discarded and they have been replaced by new acquisi-
tions, most of which have been cast or mounted in the museum.
The exhibition is now practically completed and includes a series
illustrating the various stages in the life-history of the Salmon.
There are also some fine examples of other freshwater fishes,
including a Bream (Abramis brama) from the River Wensum ; a
Crucian Carp (Carassius carassius) from Cheshunt, presented by J.
Andrews, Esq. ; a Roach (Rutilus rutilus) from Hornsea Mere, pre-
sented by E. Kempsey Esq.; a hybrid Roach and Rudd (Rutilus
rutilus x Scardinius erythrophthalmus) from Doncaster, presented by
W. #H. Park, Esq. ; and a Perch (Perca fluviatilis) from Newbury,
and a Tench (Vinca tinca) from Buckinghsmshire, presented by
A. P. Zerfass, Esq. Artistic models of a Gudgeon (Gobio gobio), a
Stickleback (Gastrosteus aculeatus) and male and female Minnows
(Phoainus phorinus) have been made and presented by F. Page,
Esq., and a series of enlarged photographs of Scales, presented by
J. A. Milne, Esq., have been added to this exhibition.
Study Series.—All the accessions have been incorporated, and
the work of replenishment with spirit has been continued ; but it is
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more than ever urgent that some steps should be taken to relieve the
congestion in the Spirit Building. A considerable amount of time
has been given to the determination of the larval and post-larval
fishes of the ‘Terra Nova” Collection, and a report on them has
been prepared.
TUNICATA.
The specimens collected by the ‘‘ Terra Nova” have been put in
order, and arrangements have been made for having them investi-
gated.
Mo.Luusca.
The roof of the Shell Gallery was repainted during the spring.
In the exhibited series additions have been made to the Sikes
Collection of British Land and Freshwater Shells, mainly from
further series presented by Mr. Sikes. Mr. G. K. Gude has con-
tinued the renaming and re-arrangement of the Helicide. The
specimens representing several groups (e.g. the Sepiidee, Mglisia,
Mesalia and Turritelopsis) have been re-arranged and relabelled,
and an account of the latter genera published.
A considerable number of the jars and bottles containing spirit
specimens have been refilled.
The study of the shells of the Prosobranchia, Scaphopoda, and
Lamellibranchia obtained by the British Antarctic (‘Terra Nova”
Expedition has been completed and the Report published.
The Nudibranchia and Cephalopoda obtained by the same
expedition have been investigated and reports on the collections are
being prepared. The Reports upon the Lamellibranchia (anatomy)
and Gastropoda Streptoneura (anatomy) commenced in 1914 have
been temporarily stopped.
Several collections have been worked out and reported upon,
e.g. from Borneo, the Philippines, E. Africa and the Sudan. The
extension of the range of the American Slipper Limpet (Crepidula
fornicata) in English coastal waters has been further studied and a
paper published upon its extension up the Hast Coast. A Gastropod
commensal with a Crinoid and exhibiting remarkable pigmentation
has been examined and reported upon. A selection has been made
and specimens mounted from a large series of Buliminus and
Petreus presented by J. H. Ponsonby, Hsq. During the year
seventy-four microscopical preparations illustrating Molluscan
anatomy have been made and added to the collection. These are
mainly representative of Antarctic Nudibranchia. Mr. W. Denison
Roebuck having kindly volunteered to furnish the Museum with
examples of new or rare varieties of British Slugs, experiments
have been made with a view to securing a satisfactory preservation
of the colour and shape of these animals.
Lieut.-Col. H. H. Godwin-Austen, F.R.S., has continued the
preparation and arrangement of the Blanford and Godwin-Austen
collections of Indian land and freshwater Mollusca.
DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY. vig |
The thanks of the Trustees are again due to Mr. E. A. Smith,
I.8.0., formerly Assistant Keeper in the Department of Zoology,
who has continued to lend valuable assistance to the Department.
BRACHIOPODA,
The collection of Brachiopoda obtained by the “Terra Nova”
Expedition is being studied by J. W. Jackson, Esq. Owing to
service in connection with the war the work can only be proceeded
with at intervals.
MyriopopA AND ARACHNIDA.
Systematic work on parasitic Acari was continued during the
year, and several reports on these Arachnids were published, includ-
ing a description of a new species found on the domestic fowl and
the first detailed description of the Akamushi Mite, carrier of the
Kedani or River-Fever of Japan. Of the Koch Collection, 6,913
specimens were registered and a considerable portion arranged and
labelled. All other accessions received have been incorporated into
the general collection.
CRUSTACEA AND PYCNOGONIDA.
A large specimen of the Common Lobster has been added to the
Exhibited series.
The registration of the spirit specimens in the Norman collec-
tion has been completed, a total of 49,284 specimens having been
registered during the past three years. The registration of the
collection of microscopic slides has been begun, and 1,673 slides
have been entered during the year. The other collections alluded
to in last year’s Return remain untouched.
A Report on the “Terra Nova” collection of Pyenogonida has
been published, and the collection itself has been registered and
incorporated. In connection therewith many determinations of
Pyenogonida have been revised and the whole collection re-arranged.
A large number of bottles of plankton collected by the ‘‘ Terra
Nova” have been searched through and the Crustacea of various
orders contained in them have been sorted out.
The doors of the cupboards containing the spirit collection are
being re-fitted and made dust-proof.
ECHINODERMA.
Great difficulty has been experienced in finding accommodation
for specimens preserved in spirit, and the further orderly arrange-
ment of species cannot be completely carried out. Most of the
specimens obtained during the year have been determined and all
have been incorporated.
The arrangement of microscopic slides in suitable cabinets has
been completed, and an index-catalogue to them is in course of
preparation ; this remark also applies to the Prototracheata, to the
Polychzeta and their allies, as well as to the Anthozoa.
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The revision of the MS. Catalogue of Asteroidea has been’ com-
pleted and progress has been made with that of the Echinoidea.
Worms.
A few specimens obtained during the year have been named and
incorporated. The ‘Terra Nova” collection of Myzostomida has
been worked out by Dr. C. L. Boulenger, and a report on them is
in preparation.
The collections of Nemertinea, both in spirit and witteeee as
slide-preparations, have been re-arranged, the former being re-
spirited. The classification and nomenclature have been largely
brought up to date, and a MS. list has been drawn up. There
remain, however, many unnamed specimens.
The numerous additions to the Helminthological collections
have been accommodated, as far as possible, in the cases in the
spirit building, with the usual difficulties owing to the congested
condition that prevails there. Many useful additions have been
made to the slide-collection of parasitic worms.
POLYZOA.
The ‘“ Discovery’ collection (partly worked out by Mr. H. W.
Burrows) and the “Terra Nova” collection have been entrusted to
the Hon. Mary H. Palk to describe, and this work is now well in
progress.
ANTHOZOA.
Before the shortage of attendants became acute the Ccral
Gallery was completely cleaned. Owing to the large quantity of
glass almost incessant attention is required in this part of the
collection.
HypDrozoa.
Captain A. K. Totton, who is in charge of this group, has been
on active service since the beginning of the war.
127 specimens of Hydroida acquired previously to 1915 have
been registered and incorporated.
PORIFERA (SPONGES).
The whole spirit-collection of sponges has been re-spirited. To
prevent evaporation the method of sealing each bottle with a mix-
ture of vaseline and beeswax has been adopted.
The working out of the sponges collected by the “Terra Nova”
in the Antarctic region has been continued. Those collected by the
same expedition in the New Zealand area and in localities other
than Antarctic have been entrusted to Prof. A. Dendy, F.R.S., and
Mr. R. W. H. Row for description.
PROTOZOA.
The ‘Terra Nova” collections of Foraminifera, including sea-
bottom samples likely to contain these organisms, have been entrusted
to Messrs. E. Heron-Allen and A. Harland to work out.
DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY. 73
2,078 slides of Foraminifera of the Norman collection have
been registered.
I1.— Duplicates and Exchanges.
(a) Duplicates.
Duplicates have been distributed among museums, scientific
institutions, &c., as follows :—
Mammalia.—Albert Institute and Victoria Galleries, Dundee.
Aves.—Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh ; Newbury Museum.
Batrachia.—Dr. N. Annandale.
Pisces.—Albert Institute and Victoria Galleries, Dundee ; North
Staffordshire Field Club Museum, Hanley.
Mollusca.— Warrington Museum.
Arachnida.—
Myriopoda.—
Crustacea.— }Public Museum, Weston Park, Sheffield.
Pycnogonida.—
Chetopoda.—
Parasitic Worms.—Public Museum, Weston Park, Sheffield ; Dr.
R. T. Leiper.
Echinoderma.—Albert Institute and Victoria Galleries, Dundee.
Celenterata.— ) Albert Institute and Victoria Galleries, Dundee ;
Porifera.— } Public Museum, Weston Park, Sheffield.
(b) Hachanges.
Exchanges have been made with the following institutions and
individuals :—
Aves.—With the University Museum, Oxford; Tring Museum ;
and Colonel Stephenson R. Clarke.
Reptilia.— ies Dr. T. Barbour, Museum of Comparative
Batrachia.—} Zodlogy, Cambridge, Mass.
Pisces.—With Prof. J. P. Hill, F.R.S.; Prof. D. Vinciguerra ;
and Prof. Max Weber.
Cestoda.—With Dr. O. Fuhrmann.
I11.— Departmental Library.
The acquisitions of the Library of the Departments of Zoology
and Entomology (including the Walsingham Library) during the
year, obtained by purchase, presentation and exchange, consist of
42 separate works and pamphlets in 59 volumes, and 1,228 parts
of periodicals and works in progress.
466 volumes, including those belonging to the Walsingham
Library, have been bound.
The work of collating, stamping, press-marking and entering all
additions in the Catalogue has been performed as usual.
74 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
The Attendant in the Library, with the aid and supervision of
an Assistant, has checked all the entries of Zoological works in that
portion of the General Catalogue of Books which has been printed
during the year.
Of the donations the following are worthy of special mention :—
The Birds of Australia, Vol. IV., parts 2 and 3; Vol. V., part 1;
presented by G. M. Matthews, Esq.
Manuscript Catalogue of the specimens in the Zoological Society’s
Museum :—Mammalia Catalogue, 5 vols. ; Osteological Catalogue,
1 Vol.; 65 Manuscript Reports of the Curator of the Society’s
Museum, Dec. 21st, 1836, to Jan. 1st, 1840 ; Manuscript Catalogue
of Skulls, 1 Vol. ; presented by the Zoological Society of London.
The most important addition by purchase during the year, was
made possible through the generosity of Mr. Alexander Reynell,
who allowed the Library to acquire his splendid copies of the first
and second issues of Swainson’s Exoric ConcHowoey.
TV .— Publications.
In addition to the Official Catalogues and other volumes pub-
lished by the Trustees (see pp. 60-62), various reports and descriptive
papers have been prepared in connection with the different branches
of the collection, and have been published for the most part in
scientific journals.
V.— Acquisitions.”
MAMMALIA.
The total number of Mammals added during 1915 was 2,072,
of which 1,936 were donations, 134 were purchases, and 2 were
received in exchange.
Special attention should be drawn to the Mammalia presented
by the Bombay Natural History Society in further continuance of
their Mammal Survey of the Indian Empire. The set presented,
-which form a first and liberal selection from the much larger number
collected, amounted in 1915 to 1,190 specimens, more than half of
the whole Mammal accessions of the year, and includes 40 types of
new species, besides fine series of many rare and little known forms
which had not previously been obtained since modern methods of
collection and study came into operation. The most notable series
included were 266 from Ceylon, collected by Major E. W. Mayor ;
250 from the Chindwin River, Upper Burma (G. C. Shortridge
and 8. A. Macmillan) ; 238 from Sikkim and 161 from Behar and
Orissa (C. A. Crump) ; and 128 from Sind (S. H. Prater).
All the British collectors mentioned have now gone to the front,
but the Society is still making an effort to carry on the Survey by
the help of native workers. The Society also undertakes the
expense of publishing in its Journal a full account of the collections
made during the Survey.
*A table showing the number of specimens added during the year is given on
page 82.
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The following Mammals have been presented by the Trustees
under the Will of the late Mr. J. Rowland Ward :—Chinese
Leopard (Felis fontanieri) from Manchuria, Siberian Wolf (Canis
lupus) from the Upper Yenisei, a Walrus (Odvbenus rosmarus) from
Hudson’s Bay, a Somali Rhinoceros (Rhinoceros bicornis somaliensis)
and a few smaller Mammals.
Several of the more interesting animals that have died in the
Gardens of the Zoological Society, notably the types of Mungotictis
substriatus and Galidictis eximius, Pocock, and a young Hlephant
Seal have been presented by the Council of the Zoological Society.
Europe.
Harvest Mice (Micromys munutus) and House Mice (Mus
musculus) from the trenches at the front in Northern France ;
presented by Capt. G. C. Shortridge, Indian Army.
A series of small Mammalia from the neighbourhood of the
trenches, including examples of five species of Shrews ; presented
by Capt. Philip Gosse, R.A.M.C.
88 small Mammals from the Islands off the Coast of Scotland,
including the types of four new forms described by Mr. Hinton ;
presented by W. R. Ogilvie-Grant, Esq.
A Cuvier’s whale (Ziphius cavirostris) stranded at Bannow Bay,
Co. Wexford ; presented by the Board of Trade.
Jaws and other parts of Cetacea stranded on the British Coasts
during 1915 ; presented by the Board of Trade.
Asia.
1,190 Mammals collected during the Society’s Mammal Survey
of India, including series from Ceylon, Upper Burma, Sikkim, Behar
and Orissa, Sind and elsewhere, with forty types of new species and
subspecies ; presented by the Bombay Natural History Society.
225 Mammals from §8.E. Siam, including the types of twenty-
five new species and subspecies ; presented by C. Boden Kloss, Esq.
29 Mammals from Siam ; presented by K. G. Gairdner, Esq.
8 Mammals from EH. Burma, collected by F. Kingdon Ward,
and 43 from Lake Baikal, collected by G. A. Burney ; presented
by Oldfeld Thomas, Esq., F.RS.
5 Mammals from Tibet ; presented by Major F. M. Bailey.
Africa.
90 Mammals from the Sudan, collected by Willoughby P. Lowe,
including the types of three new species ; presented by Abel Chap-
man, Esq.
An embryo of the Dwarf Congo Buffalo, Bos (Bubalus) nanus,
from the Belgian Congo ; presented by Dr. C. Christy.
A skull (human) of “ Unzimkulu,” South Africa ; presented by
Miss W. Hoskyns Abrahall.
America, South.
32 Mammals from Ecuador, including the type of a new
genus and species of Bat (Corvira bidens) ; presented by Walter
Goodfellow, Esq.
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98 Mammals from Ecuador collected by G. Hammond, and 6
from Bogota collected by M. Gonsalez ; presented by Oldjield Thomas,
Esq., F.RS.
A skeleton and two skulls (human) from Port San Julian,
Santa Cruz, Patagonia ; presented by A. M. E. M. Fournier, through
Miss HK. A. Warne.
Australasia.
16 specimens of the genus Nyctophilus, including the type of
NV. bifax ; presented by the Australian Museum, Sydney.
13 small Mammals, including the types of Pteropus basiliscus
and P. vulcanius from Dampier and Vulcan Is., New Guinea,
collected by A. S. Meek; presented by Oldfield Thomas, £sq.,
PRES.
115 Mammals from Cape York, N. Queensland, collected by
Robin Kemp ; purchased.
Antarctica.
Foetus of a Common Rorqual (Balenoptera physalus) ; head
and paddles of a larger foetus (164 feet) of the same species ;
paddles and scapule, and a strip of developing baleen of a fetal
Sibbald’s Rorqual (&. musculus), all from the South Shetlands ;
presented by Dr. J. Hjort, Fiskeridirektor, Norway.
AVES.
The acquisitions number 6,072. Of these the most noteworthy
are as follows :—
Kurope.
35 Birds from Devonshire ; presented by Willoughby P. Lowe,
Esq.
"9 Birds from Iceland ; collected by Mr. G. B. Dinesen ;
purchased.
Skeletons of various British Birds ; presented respectively by the
Marchioness of Breadalbane, Miss D. M. A. Bate, Dr. Percy R.
Lowe, William Brice, Esq., and W. R. Ogilvie-Grant, Esq.
Asia.
4 Birds from India, Burma, and Tibet, including the type-
specimens of Tragopan molesworthi, Ithagenes tibetanus and Laiscopus:
nipalensis whympert; presented by the Bombay Natural History
Society.
Skeleton of an Open-bill Stork, Anastomus oscitans, from India ;
Ee by the Zoological Society of London.
152 Birds from S.E. Siam, including the type-specimens of
Pyrotrogon klossi and Mi vfiophoneus klossi; presented by C. Boden Kloss
and H. C. Robinson, Esqs.
255 Birds from Siam, including the type-specimens of Mirafra
williamsont and M. marione ; collected and presented by W. J. F.
Williamson, Esq.
DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY. vie
48 Birds from Baluchistan ; presented by Capt. F. LE. W. Venning.
38 Birds from Siam ; presented by K. G. Gairdner, Esq.
15 Bustards, Cranes and Geese from Chin-Wang-tao, N. China ;
presented by J. D. La Touche, Esq.
Africa.
2,357 Birds from the Sudan ; collected and presented by A. L.
Butler, Esq.
57 Birds from Egypt; collected by the late Capt. J. B. Jen-
kinson, Rifle Brigade ; presented by Mrs. Jenkinson.
6 Birds from the Gold Coast, mounted for the public gallery ;
presented by the Trustees of the late James Rowland Ward.
A Restoration of the Dodo (Didus ineptus) ; presented by the
Trustees of the late James Rowland Ward.
America, North.
40 Birds from North Carolina; presented by the Hon. G.
Charteris.
America, Central and South.
2 mounted examples of Rhea darwint from Patagonia ;
presented by the Trustees of the late James Rowland Ward.
367 Birds from the neighbourhood of Merida, Venezuela ;
purchased.
1,211 Birds, chiefly from the West Indies, including the type-
specimens of Huethia johnstonei and Cereba laure ; collected by
Dr. Perey R. Lowe ; purchased.
Australasia.
The type-specimen of Trichoglossus brooki from Pulo Swangi,
South of Tarangan Island, Aru Islands ; presented by HE. J. Brook,
Esq.
45 Birds from Dampier and Vulcan Islands, Northern New
Guinea ; purchased.
Antarctica.
2 nestling specimens of Macronectes gigantea from the South
Orkney Islands ; presented by Vere Pack, Esq.
REPTILIA.
281 specimens were received; 270 by presentation, 3 by
purchase, 8 by exchange.
The following are the most important additions :—
44 specimens from Asia Minor ; presented by M. Henri Gadeau
de Kerville.
24 snakes from Ceylon ; presented by A. F. Abercromby, Esq.
23 specimens from Siam; presented by Dr. Malcolm Smith
and C. Boden Kloss, [sq.
13 specimens from Siam, including a Sea-snake (J)istira
tuberculata) new to the collection ; presented by Dr. Malcolm Snuth.
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38 specimens from Sumatra, including types of two new Lizards
(Japalura robinsoni and Gonyocephalus klossi) ; from the Robinson-
Kloss Expedition to Korinchi Peak.
15 specimens from Mount Chirinda and the Chirinda Forest,
Mashonaland ; presented by C. F. M. Swynnerton, Esq.
Examples of three Lizards (Anolis maynardi, A. luteosignifer,
and A. argillaceus), new to the collection, from the West Indies ;
received in exchange from the Museum of Uomparative Zodlogy,
Cambridge, Mass.
44 specimens from Southern Colombia, including types of a
new Amplhisbena (A. spurrelli), and a new Snake (Herpetodryas
vicinus) ; presented by Dr. H. G. F. Spurrell.
A new Lizard (Lygosoma scharffi), from Queensland ; presented
by Dr. R. F. Scharff.
BATRACHIA.
323 specimens were received, 169 by presentation, 20 by
purchase, 134 by exchange.
The following may be specially noticed :—
22 specimens from Asia Minor ; presented by M. Henri Gadeau
de Kerville.
125 specimens of different tadpoles from India and Burma ;
received in exchange from the Indian Museum, Calcutta.
17 specimens from Siam ; presented by Dr. Malcolm Smith and
C. Boden Kloss, Esq.
32 specimens from Sumatra, including types of three new
species (Rhacophorus modestus, R. pocilonotus, Ixalus cornutus) ;
from the Robinson-Kloss Expedition to Korinchi Peak.
The types of two new Frogs (Rappia chlorostea and R. aylmert),
from Sierra Leone ; presented by the Zoological Society of London.
Frogs (Syrrhopus campi, from Texas, and HMylodes dinudiatus,
from Cuba), new to the collection ; received in exchange from the
Museum of Comparative Zodlogy, Cambridge, Mass.
A Frog (Hylodes cuneatus), new to the collection, and types of
a new Frog (Geobatrachus walkeri), from Northern Colombia ;
presented by Prof. A. G. Ruthven.
76 specimens from Southern Colombia ; presented by Dr. H.
G. F. Spurrell.
The types of a new Frog (Hyla angiana), from the Arfak
Mountains, New Guinea ; presented by A. L. Pratt, Esq.
PISCES.
The additions number 645. 578 were presented, 56 were
purchased and 11 were received in exchange. The most important
are :—
Europe.
A large Roach (Rutilus rutilus), from Hornsea Mere ; presented
by E. Kempsey, Esq.
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A large Perch (Perca fluviatilis), from Newbury, and a Tench
(Tinca tinca), from Buckinghamshire ; presented by A. P. Zerfass,
Esq.
i very fine hybrid Roach and Rudd (Rutilus rutilus x Scardinius
erythrophthalm.s) from Doncaster ; presented by W. E. Park, Ksq.
A large Crucian Oarp (Carassius carassius) from Cheshunt ;
presented by J. Andrews, Esq.
A large Bream (Abramis brama) from the River Wensum ;
purchased.
A Pelamid (Pelamys sarda) from Devon ; presented by G. Todd,
Esq.
Asia.
19 fishes from Sumatra; from the Robinson-Kloss Expedition
to Korinchi Peak.
17 fishes from Siam ; presented by C. L. Groundwater, Esq.
Africa.
12 fishes from the Red Sea, including the types of a new Eel
(Neenchelys microtretus) and a new Pipe-fish (alicampus macro-
rhynchus) and examples of other species new to the collection ;
presented by Dr. C. Crossland and Prof. W. A. Herdman F.R.S.
33 fishes from the coast of Natal, including the types of two
new species (Hoplegnathus robinsoni and Pseudochromis natalensis) ;
presented by Romer Robinson, [sq.
175 fishes from Sierra Leone and Cameroon, including the types
of several new species ; presented by N. W. Thomas, Esq.
193 fishes from British Hast Africa ; presented. by Lieutenant S.
L. Hinde.
20 fishes from Zululand, including the types of a new species
(Barbus toppini) ; presented by E. C. Chubb, Esq.
30 fishes from Angola, collected by the late Dr. W. J. Ansorge ;
purchased.
A large mounted Characinid Fish (Hydrocyon lineatus) from the
Zambesi ; presented by Lady Seton-Karr.
e
America.
An Ouananiche (Salmo salar ouananiche) from the Saguenay
River ; purchased.
An QOuananiche (Salmo salar ouananiche) from Lake St. John ;
presented by G. J. Disbarats, Esq.
16 fishes from Manaos, including 2 Cat-fishes (Doras lithogaster
and Piramutana piramuta) new to the collection; presented by
Dr. A. Aiken Clark.
HEMICHORDATA.
A specimen of Cephalodiscus gilchristi from South Africa, pre-
sented by Dr. J. D. F. Gilchrist, is noteworthy for showing a massive
base of attachment.
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Mo.uusca.
The total number of acquisitions received and registered during
the year is 2,467. Of these 532 were “Terra Nova” specimens,
1,761 were presented by other donors and 174 were purchased.
Attention is directed to the following noteworthy accessions :—
The type and 16 other complete specimens of Katayama
(Blanfordia) nosophora from Japan ; presented by Lieut.-Col. R. T.
Leiper, M.B. (This Molluse is suspected in connection .with the
transmission of Schistosomiasis = Bilharziosis).
59 exotic Gastropoda and Lamellibranchia from abyssal depths
in the E. Atlantic ; presented by the Irish Fishery Board.
643 shells of Palsearctic Buliminoids ; presented by John H.
Ponsonby, Esq.
337 freshwater Gastropoda and Lamellibranchia, presumed S
be intermediate hosts of Trematodes, from the White Nile ; presented
by the Director of the Wellcome Tropical Research Bureau, Khartoum.
2 valves of Tridacna gigas weighing 250 and 233 pounds
respectively ; presented by Mrs. G. W. Young.
42 shells of brackish-water Gastropoda and Lamellibranchia
from Lake Chilka, Orissa ; purchased.
ARACHNIDA.
The accessions number 621, of which the following should be
mentioned :—
350 Arachnida from various localities, including the type of
a new species of Tick (Ixodes nairobiensis) ; presented by the
Imperial Bureau of Entomology.
10 parasitic Mites, including co-types of two new species, from
India ; presented by the Trustees of the Indian Museum, Calcutta.
20 specimens of a new parasitic mite (Laelaps nuttall) found
on rats at Colombo ; presented by Dr. L. F. Hirst.
The type of a new Scorpion (Charmus indicus) ; presented by T.
Bainbrigge Fletcher, Esq.
The type of a new Pedipalp (Stygophrynus moultoni) from
Sarawak ; presented by J. C. Moulton, Esq.
CRUSTACEA.
The accessions number 208, of which the following are the most
important :—
Syntypes of a recently described species of Copepod from
Epping Forest ; presented by D. J. Scourjield, Esq.
A large specimen of the common Lobster from saad bags 3
by E. Heron-Allen, Esq.
DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY. 81
16 specimens of rare deep-sea Decapods from Irish waters ;
presented by the Department of Agriculture for Ireland.
Syntypes of two species of Isopoda from Cape Town ; presented
by K. H. Barnard, Esq.
90 specimens of Copepoda, including syntypes of one recently-
described species, from Durban ; presented by E. C. Chubb, Esq.
10 specimens of a Copepod parasite (Pennella exoceti) of a
Flying-fish from Barbadoes ; presented by the Imperial Bureau of
Entomology.
Specimens of a Copepod (Cancrincola jamaicensis) parasitic on a
land-crab, from Jamaica ; presented by Dr. C. B. Wilson.
PYCNOGONIDA.
From the “Terra Nova” collection 303 specimens have been
registered, including holotypes of eleven new species.
23 specimens from South Georgia, obtained by the late Major
G. E. H. Barrett-Hamilton’s Expedition, were presented by the
British Association and the Zoological Society of London,
ECHINODERMA.
62 specimens from the “Terra Nova” collection have been
registered, in addition to those reported last year.
‘W orMs.
79 Nemertines collected by the “Terra Nova” Expedition,
including the types of two new species, were received during the
ear.
4 The total number of parasitic worms registered and incorporated
was 340. The following are the most important accessions :—
39 Cestodes, representing 13 species, and including 26 co-types,
from animals dying in the Zoological Society’s Gardens, Regent’s
Park ; presented by the Zoological Society of London.
48 Nematodes, representing 7 species, of which several are new,
from the Indian Elephant; presented by Major Clayton Lane,
M.D., I.M.S.
Numerous Nematodes, including the types of about a dozen new
species, from various Indian animals ; presented by Major Clayton
Lane, M.D., IMS.
25 specimens of a new and interesting Trematode (Heterorchis
crumenifer) parasitic in Protopterus, from Lake Victoria ; presented
by the Imperial Bureau of Entomology.
POLYZOA.
Mr. A. W. Waters has presented 12 specimens, including 3
co-types from various localities, chiefly from British Hast Africa.
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82 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
Summary of the Acquisitions in the Department of Zoology
during 1915.
—_—- Donations. | Purchases. | Exchange. | Totals.
General Collection a 1,936 134 2 2,072
Osteological Collection :—
Mammalia Anthropology ... a, 3 — — 3
Cetacea ap Has 14 — — 14
Other Mammals cue 6 1 — 7
Skins ... sits seh suit 3,685 2,259 5%} 5,997
Boos eee aie ag 5s 73 — — Oe:
ves Nests ... See ae ats 2, = — 2
Skeletons wie ate as ili = — We
Domesticated Animals... ae et 6 = — 6
Reptilia ... airs 600 200 soc 270 3 8 281
Batrachia B0e Sits ahs woe 169 20 134 323
Pisces... nee AG acts oe 578 56 ek 645
Tunicata... oak aD iste Sols 1 — — i
Hemichordata and Phoronidea ae 2 = = 2
(‘‘Terra Nova”’ collection ... 532 — —_ ‘
We hasce | Other sources re aes 1,761 174 a, aaa
Myriopoda a oes ane a 16 — — 16
Prototracheata ... aa aie ee = = — a
Arachnida ae ge a66 Bae 577 44 — 621
Crustacea oe Dt ace nee 208 — — 208
; “Terra Nova’’ Collection 303 — — :
Pyenogonida | Other sources ... ads 23 — _ } ae
Echinoderma ... sels eirra wae 63 — —- 63
Cheetopoda, &c. fs wed 81 — — 81
Worms {Paras Worms, &c.... on 340 — H 419
‘Terra Nova’? Nemertinea ... 9) — —
Brachiopoda ... sug aoe 36a 16 6 —_ 22
Polyzoa ... aes ais a5 aoe 18 oo 1 19
Anthozoa wet ie Bee ade — — -—- =
Hydrozoa AoA ate ane Sap 2 — — 2
Porifera ... na See ea ae — — = =—
Protozoa ... see abe ac ae 2 — —— 2
Totals ae soo | OLAS 2,697 209 13,689
VI.— Economic Zoology.
I. Information relating to various matters connected with the
War has been given to Government Departments.
IJ. MaAmMaAttia.
The question of Whaling in Southern waters has received a
considerable amount of attention, particularly with regard to the
rate of destruction of the Whales. Several communications on this
subject have passed between the Colonial Office and the Trustees.
Ill. AveEs.
A number of questions relating to the protection of Birds in
British Colonies and Protectorates have been referred to the Trustees
by the Colonial Office, and have been duly dealt with.
DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY. 83
EV?) Pisers.
All work connected with the conservation and arrangement of
the collection of Fishes may be regarded as of potential economic
importance.
Several investigators engaged in work on economic problems
have made use of the collection and have received assistance in their
work ; among these may be mentioned Mr. G. W. Paget, of the
Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, working on Herrings ; Dr.
H. M. Kyle, working on Flat fishes ; and Dr. Mottram and Dr.
Hammond-Smith, investigating the life-histories of Salmon and Trout.
A Report has been published on the Fishes trawled off Lagos by
the Western Fisheries, Ltd., whose interest in the fishes of this
region was commercial.
Among the enquiries answered and specimens determined may
be mentioned :
Strips of skins of various sharks, used for covering sword-
handles, were identified and their probable place of origin indicated.
Tins of Californian Sardines were examined and the specific
name of the fishes contained therein was determined.
An enquiry from the Metropolitan Asylums Board as to the
specific name, food-value, &c., of fishes supplied to them under a
contract was answered.
An enquiry from the Colonial Office as to poisonous fishes of the
West Indies was made the subject of a report.
V. Mottvusca.
Information has been given to the Military Medical Commission
working upon the transmission of bilharzia in Egypt.
Sundry fresh-water Lamellibranchia and Gastropoda suspected
of being the intermediate hosts of Trematodes have been identified
for the Wellcome Bureau, Khartoum. <A Succinea suspected of
causing “itch” in bathing tanks (Tehran) and a Corbicula infesting
water-supply (Hgypt) have been reported upon, and advice and
information concerning the identity, habits and reproduction of
wood-boring Lamellibranchia (Zeredo and Xylotrya) have been
given.
VI. ARACHNIDA.
The following injurious Arachnida were examined and reported
upon.
1. A Mite (Leiognathus morsitans) parasitic on the domestic
Fowl.
2. <A Mite, the “Harvest Bug” (larval form of Microtrombidium
pusillum), attacking human beings at Ventnor.
3. The Tsutsugamushi (Mite)—WMicrotrombidium akamushi—
carrier of Kedani or River Fever in Japan.
4. Information given to the Military Authorities on the life-
history of the Itch Mite (Sarcoptes scabiet).
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5. Ticks (Dermacentor reticulatus and Ivodes ricinus) biting
human beings in Devonshire.
6. <A mite (Rhizoglyphus echinopus), damaging tubers of an
exotic Aroid (Sauromatum guttatum).
VII. Crustacka.
A report on Copepod parasites of Flying Fish has been supplied
to the Imperial Bureau of Entomology.
‘Information has been given to correspondents relating to the
invasion of a house at Hastings by Sandhoppers.
VIII. Parasitic Worms.
Parasitic worms and_ other organisms affecting man and
domestic or other animals of economic importance have been
determined for the following :—
The Imperial Bureau of Entomology (for a correspondent in
Northern Nigeria, and for the Government Economic Biologist in
British Guiana).
The Military Hospital, Tooting. In this case the parasite was a
leech taken from the nasal cavities of a soldier who had been in the
Gallipoli Peninsula ; advice was given with a view to the prevention
of such cases.
Various Entozoa and other worms have been determined for
private individuals, and information has been given regarding them.
VIl.—Students and Visitors.
The number of visits paid to the Zoological Department during
the year 1915 by students and other persons requiring assistance or
information amounted to 8,020. This number includes the visits
paid by Students holding tickets entitling them to do special work
in the Exhibition Galleries.
In the 10 previous years the numbers were as follows. From
1905 to 1912 inclusive, the present Department of Entomology was
included in the Department of Zoology :—
9,235 in the year 1914.
9,982 in 1913.
12,564 i} 1912.
12,175 x 1911.
12,443 " 1910.
11,461 s 1909.
10,220 * 1908.
11,043 ie 1907.
10,813 i 1906.
LIS ecaheae 1905.
Sidney F. Harmer.
DEPARTMENT OF ENTOMOLOGY. 85
DEPARTMENT OF ENTOMOLOGY.
I.—Arrangement and Conservation.
Exhibition Series.—The only change to record in the Exhibition
Series is the addition of a cabinet of specimens illustrating the
various kinds of flies which serve for food to Trout and Grayling.
The collection was presented by Mr. Martin 8. Mosely and is dis-
played in a series of small glass cells, accompanied by figures and
explanatory labels and by a series of artificial flies, as used by
anglers, for comparison.
Study Series.—In the Coleoptera, a large series of undetermined
Australian Rhynchophora and Phytophaga (Humolpide) was sent to
Mr. Arthur Lea for identification, and on their return by him incor-
porated in the general collection. The important named series of
Pselaphidee and Scydmeenide in the Sharp and Lewis Collections
have been incorporated, as well as the Japanese Erotylide and
Endomychide, while a considerable part of the general collection of
Endomychidze has been transferred and re-arranged, the African
genera worked out and many new species described. The new
species of Rutelidee from all parts of the Indian Empire have been
described and numerous types acquired by this means. The Bostri-
chidee have also been re-arranged.
In the Hymenoptera, the arrangement of the Apide has been
continued, the sub-family Bombinze completed, and much progress
made with the Andreninz. Mr. Turner, as in former years, has
continued voluntarily to devote a great deal of his time to working
out the collections, especially those formed by himself in Australia
and Tasmania. Considerable collections of Heterogyna, named by
specialists, have been received and incorporated, the most important
being from Australia and 8. Africa. The collection has continued
to benefit very much by the help of specialists, loans of specimens
having been sent to the Rev. F. D. Morice, Woking, and Mr. S. A.
Rohwer, Washington (Tenthredinide) to Prof. T. D. A. Cockerell,
Colorado, and Dr. Franklin, Massachusetts (Apidee). Mr. Claude
Morley has completed the revision of the sub-families Ichneumonidee
and Cryptine, while Mr. Waterston of the Imperial Bureau of
Entomology has continued work on the family Chalcidide.
The collection of Anoplura and Mallophaga continues to grow
rapidly, several hundreds of microscopic slide preparations having
been made. The general collection has been removed to slide boxes
arranged on a system which will allow of a rapid expansion, while
the historic Denny Collection has been housed in a special slide
cabinet. A long report is in the Press on a collection of these
ectoparasites received from animals in the Zoological Gardens.
In the Orthoptera and Neuroptera a considerable number of
accessions have been dealt with and many small collections named
and incorporated.
86 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRIT{SH MUSEUM.
In the Rhynchota the enumeration and description of the large
collection of Homoptera made in the Seychelle Islands by the Percy
Sladen Trust Expedition have been completed, but owing to the war
the report has not yet been published. The revision and re-arrange-
ment of the Membracidz has been begun, and large collections of
Homoptera from India have been worked out and new species
described, the types of which, as a rule, remain in the British
Museum. The re-arrangement of the important economic families
of Aphidee and Coccidee has also been commenced.
In the Lepidoptera the re-arrangement of the Moths of the sub-
family Arctianee and the family Agaristide have been completed ;
also the sub-family Pyralinz of the Pyralide. The MS. of Volume
II. of the Supplement to the Catalogue of Moths has been completed
and most of the plates drawn, and the preparation of the MS. on the
sub-family Noctuinz of the Noctuidze nearly completed.
In the Tineina, the determination and arrangement of unincor-
porated material has been continued, and the concluding parts of the
Lepidoptera of the Biologia Centrali-America have been published
during the year.
The Henry Doubleday Collections of British and Huropean
Lepidoptera were transferred without injury from the Bethnal Green
Museum to the British Museum (Nat. Hist.) on 12th August 1915.
In the Diptera, the collection made by Mr. A. F. R. Wollaston
in Dutch New Guinea and numerous and extensive collections of
mosquitoes from India, Hong Kong, Sarawak, Natal, Sierra Leone,
and elsewhere have been worked out and incorporated ; a large
collection of Tabanidee made by Mr. 8. A. Neave in Nyassaland, and
determined by him, has also been incorporated. Prof. M. Bezzi’s
work on Ethiopian Syrphide has been published and the collections
belonging to the Imperial Bureau of Entomology with which it deals
have been presented to the Museum, and incorporated together with
numerous recent accessions of African Syrphide. The arrangement
of the British species of Simulidze and Chironomidee has been com-
pleted and the results of a study of the adults of the former family
published. A number of undetermined Empidide have been sub-
mitted to Mr. J. EH. Collin, Newmarket, and of Oriental Bombylidee
to Mr. E. Brunetti, Calcutta, for identification.
Several papers dealing with the collection have been published
during the year. :
IMPERIAL BurzEAv oF ENTOMOLOGY. .
The Entomological Department has continued to benefit greatly
by the accession of specimens presented by the Imperial Bureau of
Entomology. Most of the specimens were already named, or if new,
described before being presented by it, and in this way the Depart-
ment secured a considerable number of valuable types.
DEPARTMENT OF ENTOMOLOGY. 87
Il.—Duplicates and Hachanges.
(a) Duplicates.
Duplicates have been presented to the following institution :—
The Public Museum, Sheffield. Duplicates have also been
presented to the following gentlemen who have rendered service by
naming specimens:—Prof. Chr. Aurivillius, Prof. T. D. A. Cockerell,
Mr. H. J. Franklin, Mr. A. M. Lea, and the Rev. F. D. Morice.
(b) Exchanges.
Exchanges have been made with the following museums and
individuals :—
Hope Department, University Museum, Oxford ; and with the
Rev. Dexter Allen, Mr. H. Arnold, Mr. G. T. Bethune Baker, M.
A. Bourgoin, Mr. HE. Brunetti, Dr. R. Hamlyn Harris, M. Pierre
Lesne, Mr. J. R. Mallock, Mr. Mark Pallis, Lord Rothschild, Dr.
A. von Schultess, and Mr. C. B. Williams.
Il.— Departmental Library.
The Library has continued to be worked in conjunction with that
of the Zoological Department, and particulars in reference to it will
be found included under the corresponding head, in the return made
by the Keeper of Zoology.
LV .—Publications.
In addition to the official publications issued by the Trustees
(see pp. 60-62), several papers and reports have been prepared in con-
nection with different branches of the collection and have been
published in scientific journals.
V.— Acquisitions.
The number of specimens added to the Insect Collection during
the year is 60,282, made up as shown in the following table :—
Donations. Purchases. | Exchanges. Totals.
Coleoptera - - - 14,032 — 33 14,065
Lepidoptera - - - 19,948 120 42 20,110
Hymenoptera - - - 4,938 — 45 4,983
Diptera - - - - 6,212 32 201 6,445
Rhynchota~ - - - 2,304 3,325 — 5,629
Orthoptera— - - - 501 5,769 14 6,284
Neuroptera- - - 658 406 = 1,064
Other Orders - - - 649 10 16 675
Larve, Pupe, &c. - - 1,027 | — ~~ 1,027
Wotalsss "= - 50/269) "|. 9,662 351 60,282
88 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
The most important of these accessions are the following, from
various localities :—
13,051 specimens of all orders presented by the Imperial Bureau
of Entomology.
13,251 Lepidoptera Rhopalocera, including 205 types; presented
by F. Du Cane Godman, Esq., D.C.L., F.RS.
7,003 Coleoptera ; presented by George Lewis, Esq.
1,297 specimens of various orders ; presented by the Hon. N. C.
Rothschild.
The fifth instalment of the Distant Collection, containing 3,325
Rhynchota, 1,269 Orthoptera, 406 Neuroptera and Odonata.
The first instalment of the Burr Collection of Dermaptera, con-
taining 4,500 specimens, including 55 types and 390 co-types.
Europe.
831 specimens of British Diptera; presented by F. W. Edwards,
Esq.
570 Coleoptera and Rhynchota from France; presented by
H. B. Preston, Esq.
Australia.
889 Hymenoptera, mainly from Queensland ; presented by R. E.
Turner, Esq.
489 Coleoptera, including many co-types ; presented by Arthur
Lea, Esq.
S. America.
640 Lepidoptera from Ecuador and Colombia; presented by
M. Paul Dognin.
VI.—Economic Entomology.
The work of the Department in Economic Entomology has
been carried on with the assistance of Mr. C. A. Ealand, whose
services as a specialist in that branch have again been engaged
during the year.
The arrangement of the Economic Series has been completed,
and extensive accessions have been incorporated during the year,
the chief being presented by the Imperial Bureau of Entomology.
Many thousand references have been added to the card index.
The exhibit illustrating the Army Biscuit Enquiry has been
relabelled and re-exhibited in the Central Hall at the request of
the War Office. :
Enquiries on matters of interest have continued to come in from
various parts of the country. Amongst the subjects on which
information or advice have been sought, and as far as possible
given, the following may be mentioned :—
DiprERA (FLIES).
(1) Warbles caused by Hypoderma sp. on horses in an army
remount station.
DEPARTMENT OF ENTOMOLOGY. 89
(2) Leather jackets (Tipula spp.) damaging flowers in a garden.
(3) Chrysanthemum leaves ruined by Spilographa zoe, Phyto-
myza albiceps. and Agromyza flaveola.
(4) Various enquiries as to how to prevent mosquitoes breeding
in small ponds and water butts.
(5) Ceadomyia pyri rolling the leaves of pear trees.
(6) Sctara triticc Coq. seriously damaging orchids in Yorkshire.
(7) Leaves of Henbane ruined by larvee of Pegomyia hyoscyama.
(8) Gstrus ovis from North Patagonia (through the Secretary
of the Board of Agriculture).
(9) Enquiries from the trenches regarding mosquitoes and the
likelihood of their transmitting malaria.
(10) Plagues of flies (Limnophora septemnotata) in houses.
(11) Many enquiries regarding houseflies, their breeding Ros
and how to get rid of them.
CoLEOPTERA (BEETLES).
(12) Dermestes lardarius and Ptinus tectus damaging books and
apers in a house.
(13) Niptus hololeucus increasing yearly in a house in such
numbers as to become a perfect pest.
(14) Sitodrepa panicea boring into and ruining packets of soups
ina shop. (From a Medical Officer of Health.) Also
damaging biscuits at Reading.
(15) Plinthus caliginosus Fabr. damaging the roots of hops and
now attacking the leaves. (From Prof. F. V. Theobald.)
(16) Lyctus brunneus destroying Italian walnut and oak.
Leprpoprera (Morus).
(17) Magpie Moth (Abrazas grossulariata) defoliating Goose-
berry and Currant plants.
(18) Orgyia antiqua, the caterpillars causing an irritation and
rash when they fall off the trees on to the skin.
(19) Moths damaging the coverings of balloons.
(20) The Cotton Worm (Alabama argillacea) attacking cotton
to such an extent in Montserrat that the correspondent
seriously thought of giving up the plantation.
(21) Oinophila v-flava damaging wine corks.
(22) Myelois phenicis Drnt. bred from dates in Algeria, and
from dates purchased in London; dates infested by
larvee, probably of this species, received from France,
and information received of its occurrence at Putney.
(23) Plodia interpunctella Hb. damaging split peas in barrel on
board H.M.S. “ Cornwall.”
(24) Two enquiries regarding Ephestia kiihniella Z. infesting
packets of barley and patent food.
(25) Ephestia elutella Hb. damaging cocoa beans.
(26) Corcyra cephalonica Stn. infesting chocolate crackers, &e.,
in the United States.
90 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
ORTHOPTERA AND ANOPLURA.
(27) Repeated enquiries regarding remedies for cockroaches—
the common Cockroach (Blatta orientalis) and the German
Cockroach (Phyllodromia germanica)—both in_ private
houses and in hospitals.
(28) A full report on the most approved methods of dealing
with locusts sent to a correspondent in British Columbia.
(29) Information supplied regarding body vermin to private
enquirers and to the authorities at New Scotland Yard.
A visit was also paid to a military hospital in which
Pediculosis had broken out, and advice given on the best
means of eradicating it.
MISCELLANEOUS.
(30) Clothilla sp. damaging artificial silk used in insulating
electric cables—conditions under which it could live and
breed.
(31) The Bed Bug (Cimew lectularius) infesting a house.
(32) Lepisma saccharina, a perfect plague in a house.
(33) Larvee of Emphytus cinctus destroying roses in Surrey.
(34) Larvee of Gooseberry Sawfly (NVematus ribesit) defoliating
gooseberries and currants in Anglesea.
(35) How to get rid of bees which had taken up their abode
between the ceiling and the floor of the room above.
(86) Information wanted regarding various species of Greenfly
(Aphidee).
VII.—Students and Visitors.
The number of visits paid to the department during the year by
students and other persons seeking information or assistance was
aoe
C. J. Gahan.
DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY. 91
DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY.
I.— Arrangement and Conservation.
Mammaha (Galleries 1 and 2).—The Palseolithic implements
exhibited in table-case 14 have been retableted with new printed
labels. The unexhibited flint implements have also been re-arranged
in drawers.
A skeleton of the extinct wolf, Canis dirus, from the asphalt of
Rancho La Brea, California, has been prepared for mounting.
The newly-acquired horn of Rhinoceros antiquitatis from Siberia
has been mounted on a corresponding skull in pier-case 6.
A partially restored skeleton of the Oligocene American Camel,
Stenomylus hitchcocki, has been mounted and exhibited in _pier-
case 13.
Pier-case 18, containing British Pleistocene remains of Bos,
has been cleaned and re-arranged, and numerous specimens have been
mounted on stands.
The labelling and arrangement of the remains of Rodentia
exhibited in table-case 16 have been completed.
The unexhibited remains of Australian Marsupialia have been
examined, re-arranged and labelled in the drawers of table-case 14.
Progress has been made with the preparation of an imperfect
skeleton of Elephas antiquus from Chatham, Kent. Numerous
mammalian remains from the Lower Tertiary formations of
Baluchistan have also been prepared for study.
A revision of the unexhibited Mammalian remains in the base-
ment store-rooms has been completed.
Number of specimens of Mammalia registered, 1,206.
Aves (Gallery 2).—Two specimens of the pelvis of pyornis
hildebrandti have been mounted for exhibition in wall-case 25.
The unexhibited collection of remains of A’ pyornis, from Mada-
gascar, has been arranged, labelled, and indexed in the drawers of
table-case 124. Part of the unexhibited collection of Dinornis from
New Zealand has also been arranged and labelled in drawers of the
same table-case.
The unexhibited Tertiary bird-remains from Patagonia have been
arranged, labelled, and indexed in the drawers of table-case 13.
Progress has also been made with the arrangement and labelling of
the European Tertiary bird-remains in the drawers of the same
table-case.
The unexhibited collection of Pleistocene bird-remains from the
Chatham Islands has been arranged and labelled in the drawers of
table-case 134.
Number of specimens of Aves registered, 458.
Reptilia and Batrachia (Galleries 3, 4, 5, 11).—Progress has
been made with the preparation of Triassic Reptiles from South
Africa and Cretaceous Reptiles from Alberta, Canada.
Number of specimens of Reptilia and Batrachia registered, 315.
92 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
Pisces (Gallery 6).—Some skulls of Hybodus basanus, from the
Wealden of Pevensey Bay, Sussex (Beckles: coll.), have been
prepared for study and exhibition.
Four slabs of Upper Old Red Sandstone from Dura Den, Fife-
shire, showing remains of Crossopterygian and other fishes, have
been prepared for study and exhibition, and provided with mahogany
frames.
Wall-cases 8, 9, have been cleaned and re-arranged, and refitted
to admit new specimens of Lepidotus. The unexhibited remains of
Lepidotus in the drawers of table-case 16, have also been examined
and re-arranged.
The branchial apparatus of Leedsia problematica, from the
Oxford Clay of Peterborough (Leeds coll.), has been mounted
for study and exhibition.
Numerous slabs of fossil fishes have been mounted in mahogany
frames.
Number of specimens of Pisces registered, 296.
Mollusca (Galleries 7 and 8, and Workroom).—The Cephalopoda
registered, labelled and incorporated include :—Ordovician Nau-
tiloidea from Scotland (Wm. McPherson coll.) ; Ammonoidea and
Nautiloidea mostly from the Devonian of Devon (A. Champernowne
coll.) ; Devonian Nautiloidea from the Hifel, Germany (8. Dohm
coll.) ; Carboniferous Ammonoidea and Nautiloidea from Yorkshire
(J. F. Blake coll.), and Scotland (R. Dunlop coll.) ; English
Liassic Ammonites (J. F. Blake, T. Hunter, L. Richardson and
T. J. Slatter colls.) ; Ammonoidea from the Gault of Kent, Surrey
and Sussex (G. E. Dibley, 8. C. Tinne, and A. 8. Woodward colls.) ;
Upper Cretaceous Ammonoidea and Nautiloidea from Hertfordshire,
Lincolnshire and Norfolk (W. Hill coll.) ; Ammonoidea and Nauti-
loidea from the Upper Cretaceous of Zululand described by G. C.
Crick in the 3rd Report of the Geological Survey of Natal and
Zululand, 1907 (W. Anderson coll.) ; opalised Belemnites from
New South Wales (L. A. Lawrence coll.) ; and a Nautilus from
the Barton Cliff, Hampshire (H. Eliot Walton coll.).
A large Carboniferous Nautiloid from Belgium, and two
Devonian Nautiloids from Germany have been mounted on blocks
in Wall-case 1 ; and the Carboniferous and Devonian Nautiloids in
this case and in the glass case adjoining have been rearranged.
A Cretaceous Nautilus from Kent, one from Saxony, three
Cretaceous Nautili from Zululand, and a Nautilus from the Eocene
of Belgium have been mounted on blocks in Wall-case 2.
A large British Chalk Ammonite has been added to the glass
case between Wall-cases 3 and 4. A Cretaceous Ammonite from
Westphalia and two Cretaceous Ammonites from Zululand have
been mounted on blocks in Wall-case 4.
A small glass case for two British Chalk Ammonites has been
fixed between Wall-cases 4 and 5, and a well-preserved Greensand
Ammonite has been placed in the case beneath.
DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY. 93
A fine example of Plesioteuthis prisca from the Lithographic
Stone, Bavaria (described by G. C. Crick in Proc. Malac. Soc.,
1915), has been framed and added to Wall-case 7.
A small glass case has been fitted between Wall-cases 10 and
11 for the exhibition of two fine British Inferior Oolite Ammonites.
One section of Wall-case 11 containing Liassic Ammonites has
been cleaned, and all the specimens have been re-arranged and
relabelled.
A slab of Lower Lias Limestone with Ammonites has been
mounted on a block and placed on the top of Wall-case 12.
The Ordovician Nautiloids in Wall-case 14 have been re-
arranged, and representatives of four additional genera added.
Further progress has been made with the revision of the whole
of the Museum collection of British Lias Ammonites, and with the
labelling of the selection prepared for exhibition.
The slip-catalogue of type, figured, and historical specimens of
Cephalopoda has been continued.
Paleozoic Gastropoda and Lamellibranchia registered, labelled,
and mostly incorporated include :—Ordovician Gastropoda and
Lamellibranchia from North Wales (T. Ruddy coll.) ; Silurian
Lamellibranchia from Scotland (W. McPherson coll.) ; Devonian
Gastropoda and Lamellibranchia from the Hifel, Germany (S.
Dohm coll.) ; Gastropoda and Lamellibranchia from the Car-
boniferous Limestone of Derbyshire (F. A. Bather coll.) ; Car-
boniferous Gastropoda and Lamellibranchia from Scotland (J.
Bennie and R. Dunlop colls.) ; Gastropoda and Lamellibranchia
from the Lower Carboniferous of Missouri, U.S.A. (D. K. Greger
coll.) ; and Permian Gastropoda and Lamellibranchia from the
Malay Peninsula (J. B. Scrivenor coll.). |
The unexhibited specimens of Foreign Paleozoic Gastropoda
and Lamellibranchia have been transferred from Gallery 8 to
drawers in a new cabinet in the back corridor, and the British
Carboniferous Gastropoda and Lamellibranchia have been trans-
ferred from drawers in the Workroom to drawers beneath the
upright cases A 6 and A 7 in Gallery 8.
Progress has been made in the identification and relabelling
of the Klipstein collection of Triassic Mollusca from St. Cassian in
the Tyrol.
_ The slip-catalogues of type, figured, and historical specimens of
Paleozoic Lamellibranchia and Gastropoda have been continued.
Slip-catalogues of the exhibited collections have also been prepared.
The Mesozoic and Tertiary Gastropoda and Lamellibranchia
registered, labelled, and incorporated, include :—Upper Cretaceous
(Danian) Mollusca from Denmark (Pindborg coll.) ; and British
Lower Cretaceous shells (Aptian) from Great Chart near Ashford,
collected by Prof. J. W. Gregory and noticed by him in the Geol.
Mag. 1895.
A series of Tertiary non-marine Mollusca from European con-
tinental localities has been arranged for exhibition in an upright
case in the centre of Gallery 8. A slip-catalogue has been prepared
94 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH, MUSEUM.
both for this and the remainder of the same collection, which has
been arranged in drawers.
Progress has also been made in the arrangement of drawers of
French and Italian Tertiary Mollusca in the cabinets in the Work-
room.
Cretaceous and Tertiary Mollusca from Angola and British Hast
Africa have been examined for determination and cataloguing ; and
Pliocene Mollusca from Lenham (Kent) and the bed of the North
Sea, have also been determined and catalogued.
Number of Mollusca registered :—Cephalopoda, 683 ; Gastro-
poda, 376 ; Lamellibranchia, 360. Total, 1,419.
Arthropoda (Gallery 8 and Workroom).—The acquisitions
registered, labelled, and incorporated include :—Ordovician Ostra-
coda and Trilobita from Wales and Shropshire (T. Ruddy coll.) ;
Silurian and Devonian Trilobita from Britain and Germany
(Champernowne coll.) ; Cirripedia from the Cretaceous of Bohemia
(Fritsch coll.), Denmark (Br. Nielsen coll. and Copenhagen Univer-
sity), and Hngland, and from the Miocene of Italy; Oligocene
Insecta from the Isle of Wight (A’Court Smith coll.) ; and Crustacea
from the Red Crag (A. Bell and A. 8. Kennard colls.)
The revision of the old collection of Cirripedia has been continued,
and several Cretaceous and Tertiary specimens have been mounted
for exhibition. Thin sections of various fossil Arthropod shells have
been cut to determine the affinities of some Paleozoic fossils referred
to Cirripedes.
Among other additions to the exhibited collection are a repro-
duction of Avrthropleura moyseyi and several Cambrian trilobites.
The mounting of the collection of amber inclusa has been
completed, as also has that of the gum-copal inclusa, except some
recent acquisitions.
The slip-catalogue of exhibited specimens has been continued.
Number of specimens of Arthropoda registered, 2,269.
Echinoderma (Gallery 8).—The acquisitions registered, labelled,
and incorporated, include :—Ordovician Cystidea, Crinoidea, and
Asteroidea from Wales (T. Ruddy coll.) ; squeezes of Devonian
Crinoidea from Germany (made by W. EH. Schmidt) and of Asteroidea
(made by F. Schoendorf) ; Blastoidea from the Carboniferous of
Valcour Id. (Hudson coll.) and of Missouri (Greger coll.) ; Lias
Crinoidea from the West of England (L. Richardson coll.) ; Jurassic
Echinoidea and Crinoidea from Cutch ; and Cretaceous HEchinoidea
and Crinoidea from Bohemia (A. Fritsch coll.)
An incomplete set of the plaster casts of Echinoids made by L.
Agassiz (presented by the Geological Society) has been checked by
his ‘ Catalogus Eetyporum ” and labelled accordingly.
New Edrioasteroidea have been mounted for exhibition with
enlarged drawings. A group of the Liassic crinoid, Pentacrinus,
attached to a piece of wood, has also been exhibited.
The slip-catalogue of exhibited specimens has been continued,
and that of specimens of Blastoidea has been brought up to date.
DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY. 95
Progress has also been made with the slip-catalogue of genera and
species of the Cystidea and Hdrioasteroidea.
Number of specimens of Hchinoderma registered :—Hchinoidea,
52; Stelliformia, 52; Crinoidea, 627; Blastoidea, 45; Cystidea
and Edrioasteroidea, 138. Total, 914.
Annelida (Gallery 8 and Workroom).—The acquisitions
registered, labelled, and incorporated include :—Specimens from the
Ordovician of Wales (T. Ruddy coll.) ; Jurassic of W. England
(L. Richardson coll.) and of Cutch ; Cretaceous of Bohemia (Fritsch
coll.) ; and Red Crag of Essex (A. Bell coll.).
Number of specimens of Annelida registered, 143.
Brachiopoda (Gallery 8 and Workroom).—The acquisitions
registered, labelled, and incorporated include specimens from the
Ordovician of Wales (T. Ruddy coll.), Devonian of Germany
(S, Dohm coll.), and the Upper Cretaceous of Denmark (Pindborg
coll.).
Number of specimens of Brachiopoda registered, 820.
Polyzoa (Gallery 8 and Workroom).—Progress has been made
in preparing, mounting, and registering Cretaceous Polyzoa as a
preliminary to cataloguing. Ordovician Polyzoa from North Wales
(T. Ruddy coll.) have also been registered and incorporated, and
numerous Paleozoic Polyzoa originally included among Corals have
been removed to the cabinets of Polyzoa.
Number of specimens of Polyzoa registered, 653.
Anthozoa and Hydrozoa (Gallery 10 and Workroom).—The
revision of the Carboniferous Corals has been continued, and 137
specimens have been cut, including many thin sections. To make
space for this collection in gallery 10, the unexhibited Ordovician
and Silurian Corals have been removed to cabinets in the Workroom.
The Ruddy collection of Ordovician Corals from North Wales
has been registered and incorporated.
Number of specimens of Anthozoa and Hydrozoa registered, 278.
Porifera (Gallery 10).—Ordovician Sponges from North Wales
(T. Ruddy coll.) have been registered and incorporated.
Number of specimens of Porifera registered, 16.
Protozoa (Gallery 10).—The William Hill collection of thin
sections of Chalk has been placed in a slide cabinet in the Work-
room. Hocene Foraminifera from Nigeria (Parkinson coll.) have
also been registered and incorporated.
Number of specimens of Protozoa registered, 23.
Plante (Gallery 10).—A selection of the catalogued remains
of Cretaceous plants has been tableted and labelled for exhibition in
table-case 19; and the catalogued microscope-slides have been
labelled and arranged in a cabinet in the Workroom.
Numerous microscope-sections of Cretaceous woods have been
prepared.
Number of specimens of Plantze registered, 48.
96 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
II.— Duplicates and Exchanges.
Duplicate fossils and plaster casts of fossils have been presented
to the National Museum of Wales and the Cheltenham Museum ;
also (in return for services rendered to the Department of Geology)
to the Sedgwick Museum (Cambridge), Maidstone Museum, Peabody
Museum (Yale University), Prof. A. G. Nathorst, Dr. Marie C.
Stopes, and Dr. H. Curwen.
Exchanges of duplicate fossils have been made with the Royal
Agricultural College, Cirencester, and with Mr. W. H. Crane.
I1.—Departmental Library.
The additions to the Library which have been registered, stamped,
catalogued, and press-marked, comprise 131 new works and
pamphlets, of which 16 were purchased and 115 presented ; 296
parts of serials in progress, of which 103 were purchased and
193 presented. 3&5 sheets of maps were acquired, 9 by purchase
and 26 presented. 4 photographs were presented. 19 volumes
and pamphlets were obtained by transfer from other Departments.
169 volumes have been bound, press-marked, and returned to the
shelves. 1,168 visits were made to the Library by students and
others.
TV .—Publications.
The second part of the Catalogue of Cretaceous Plants has been
published.
A Guide Book to the Fossil Remains of Man has been published.
V.— Acquisitions.
A.—By Donation.
Among numerous donations the following may be enumerated :—
Manmalia.—A cervical vertebra of Zeuglodon from the Barton
Clay, Barton, Hampshire, described and figured in Quart. Journ.
Geol. Soc., vol. Ixii (1907), p. 124. A. Eliot Walton, Esq.
Remains of a Zeuglodont from an Eocene formation in a cutting
on the Port Harcourt Railway, Omobialla district, Southern Nigeria.
Sir Frederick Lugard, G.C.M.G.
A nearly complete skeleton of a Beaver from Wicken Fen,
Cambridge. EH. B. Williams, Esq.
Specimens, chiefly limb-bones, of Anaglochis and other Ruminants
from the Pleistocene cave-deposits of Crete. Miss ). M. A. Bate.
A collection of remains of Vertebrata from rock-fissures in
the Balearic Isles, obtained by Miss D. M. A. Bate, namely about
40 limb-bones of Myotragus balearicus from Majorca, and 1 skull,
10 portions of skulls, 9 mandibular rami, 12 vertebrae and various
other bones of Myotragus from Minorea. The Percy Sladen
Memorial Trustees.
A collection of remains from Pleistocene Gravel at Piltdown,
Sussex, including the nasal bones, part of a turbinal, and the right
DEPARTMENT: OF GEOLOGY. 97
lower canine tooth of pee dawsoni ; a bone implement ;
Paleolithic flint implement ; 2 Eoliths ; a lower incisor and ane
ment of mandible of Castor ; portions of molars of Stegodon and
Mastodon ; portions of 2 teeth of Rhinoceros; and 4 rock-specimens.
Described by the donor and Dr. A. S. Woodward in Quart. Journ.
Geol. Soc., vols. Ixx., Ixxi. (1914-5). Charles Dawson, Esq.
Plaster casts of restored models of skull and mandible of Pithe-
canthropus and Koanthropus, with casts of brain cavity of the same.
Plaster casts of bust-restorations of Pithecanthropus, EHoanthropus,
Neanderthal Man, and Man of Cro Magnon. Prof. Henry Fairfield
Osborn.
The greater part of a skeleton of Hlephas antiquus from Frinds-
bury Hill, Chatham, Kent. War Office.
Reptila.—The hinder portion of a mandibular ramus, the type-
‘specimen of Labyrinthodon lavisi, H. G. Seeley, Quart. Journ. Geol.
Soc., vol. xxxil. (1876), p. 278, pl. xix., with associated fragments,
from the Trias of Sidmouth, Devonshire. The family of the late
HI. J, Johnston-Lavis, Esq., M.D.
A fossil Turtle from the Upper Greensand of Melbury Down,
near Shaftesbury, Dorset. Clarence H. Rutter, Esq.
Portions of carapace and about 15 limb-bones of Testudo
gymnesica from Minorca, described in Geol. Mag., 1914, pp. 100-107,
obtained by Miss D. M. A. Bate from rock-fissures in the Balearic
Isles. Zhe Percy Sladen Memorial Trustees.
Pisces.—Slabs of Old Red Sandstone from Dura Den, Fifeshire,
with Fossil Fishes (including Phyllolepis, Gyroptychius, &c.). The
British Association per Dr. John Horne, S.
Selachian teeth and Celorhynchus from an Eocene formation in a
cutting on the Port Harcourt Railway, Omobialla district, Southern
Nigeria. Sir Frederick Lugard, G.C.M.G.
12 Selachian teeth and 1 fragment of Colorhynchus from an
Hocene formation in a cutting on the Port Harcourt Railway,
Omobialla district, Southern Nigeria. _£. M. Bland, Esq.
Mollusca.—A collection of fossils from the Malay Peninsula,
including Carboniferous Cephalopoda, Permian Cephalopoda and
Seaphopoda, and Triassic Mollusca ; recorded in the donor’s memoir
on “The Geology and Mining Industries of Ulu Pahang, &c.”
(1911) ; also three portions of Jurassic Ammonites from Borneo.
J. B. Scrivenor, Esq.
10 Upper Jurassic Ammonites from Kukatta, Juba River, British
Hast Africa; and a rock-specimen containing Belemnites from
Serenli, Juba River, British East Africa. John Parkinson, Esq. \
38 Ammonites and 12 other Molluscs from the Lower Gault,
Wrecclesham, near Farnham. Lieut. 8. C. Tinne.
An opalised Belemnite and an opalised Bivalve from the Upper
Cretaceous of New South Wales, Dr. L. A. Lawrence.
Upper Cretaceous and Eocene Mollusca from Portuguese Hast
Africa. EH. O. Thiele, Esq., and R. C. Wilson, Esq.
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98 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
Mollusca from an Eocene formation in a cutting on the Port
Harcourt Railway, Omobialla district, Southern Nigeria. Sir
Frederick Lugard, G.C.M.G.
72 Gastropoda, 4 Scaphopoda, and 105 Lamellibranchs from the
Tertiary rocks of New Zealand. Director of the Geological Survey of
New Zealand.
About 500 Tertiary fossils, chiefly Mollusca, collected by the
donor in Colombia, South America. Beeby Thompson, Esq.
A small piece of Pliocene shell-limestone dredged by Capt.
Wood from the sea-bottom, about 80-100 miles E.N.E. of Aberdeen.
R. W. Thomson, Esq.
50 Gastropods and 10 Lamellibranchs from the Upper Pliocene
of Corfu, Greece. Count John Sordina.
About 50 late Tertiary non-marine Mollusca, collected by the
donor in British East Africa, noticed by R. B. Newton, Abstr. Proc.
Geol. Soc., No. 980 (1915), pp. 6-8. John Parkinson, Esq.
45 Post-Pliocene shells from the Cape Verde Islands. Walter
Child, Esq.
26 non-marine Gastropoda from cavern deposits in the Balearic
Isles. Miss D. M. A. Bate.
Arthropoda.—A_ Caryocaris from the Skiddaw Slates. John
Postlethwaite, Esq.
2 Trilobites from the Lower Carboniferous of Missouri. Dr.
D. K. Greger.
50 remains of Crabs from the Crag, Suffolk. A. S. Kennard,
Esq.
Echinoderma.—60 Blastoids and 78 Crinoids from the Lower
Carboniferous of Missouri, U.S.A. Dr. D. K. Greger.
A piece of Paleozoic siliceous rock, containing Fusulina and
Crinoidal remains, &c., from South Portuguese Timor. F. W.
Moon, Esq.
2 Crinoids (Tribrachiocrinus) from the Permo-Carboniferous,
Upper Marine Series, of Gerringong, co. Camden, N.S.W. C.
T. Trechmann, Esq.
12 Echinoid and 27 Crinoid remains from the Jurassic of Cutch.
Director of the Geological Survey of India.
Hocene Echinoids from Portuguese Hast Africa. E. O. Thiele,
Esq., and R. C. Wilson, Esq.
Brachwopoda.—14 Brachiopoda, probably Permo-Triassic, from
Warepa and other localities in New Zealand. D. G. Lillie, Esq.
187 Brachiopoda from the Tertiary rocks of New Zealand.
Director of Geological Survey of New Zealand.
Polyzoa.—A piece of Polyzoa-bearing rock from the Lower
Greensand near Shanklin, I. of W. Ll. Treacher, Esq.
100 Polyzoa from the Chalk of Sompting, Sussex. 7. 4.
Withers, Esq.
145 Polyzoa from the Chalk of Sussex. C. 7. A. Gaster, Esq.
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Vermes.—9 Annelids from the Jurassic of Cutch. Director of
the Geological Survey of India.
3 opercula of Serpula heptagona from the Barton Beds of Barton.
H, Eliot Walton, Esq.
Celentera.—38 Graptolites from the Skiddaw Slates. John
Postlethwaite, Esq. :
The type-specimen and a figured specimen of the Stromatoporoid
Labechia rotunda, from the Wenlock Limestone, Much Wenlock,
described and figured by the donor in Geol. Mag., 1915, p. 433,
pl. xv. Miss Mary S. Johnston.
25 British Carboniferous Corals. Stanley Smith, Hsq., D.Sc:
Protozoa.—Hocene Foraminifera from Portuguese East Africa.
i. O. Thiele, Esq., and R. C. Wilson, Esq.
Plante.—A slab with leaves of a fern (Pecopteris) from the
Jurassic Mataura Series at Curio Bay near Waikawa, South Head,
South I., N. Zealand. Lady Campbell.
A fossil Cycad and fragment of a second specimen from
Portland. President and Council of the Royal Botanic Society.
4 type-specimens of fossil wood from the Lower Greensand of
the I. of Wight, namely, Sequoia giganteoides, Cupressinoxylon
luccombense, Podocarpoaylon gothant and Vectia luccombensis ; also
two specimens of Cupressinoaylon vectense from the Lower Green-
sand of the I. of Wight. Dr. Marie C. Stopes.
3 type-specimens of fossil wood from the Lower Greensand,
Maidstone, namely, Hythia elgari, Cantia arborescens, and Cupress-
moxylon cryptomertoides ; also a second fragment of the last species.
Committee of the Maidstone Museum.
2 fruits (Vipadites) from the Eocene Limestone of Mokattam,
Cairo. G. Foster Smith, Esq.
Rock-specimens.—A_ collection of about 2,700 slides of thin
sections of sedimentary rocks, including about 400 slides from the
collection of the late Mr. A. J. Jukes-Browne, F.R.S. Most of the
slides are of British Cretaceous rocks, referred to in the writings of
Messrs. Hill and Jukes-Browne. Others are of the Tertiary rocks
of the West Indies and Cyprus, referred to in the writings of
Messrs. Hill, Jukes-Browne and Harrison. LEvwecutors of the late
Willam Mill, Esq., F.GS.
B.— By Purchase.
Among specimens purchased by the grant brought forward from
the financial year 1914-15, the following may be enumerated :—
Mammalia.—50 jaws and portions of dentition of American
Hocene Creodonts.
Horn and skull of Rhinoceros antiquitatis from Siberia.
Reptilia.—8 fossil reptiles from the Trias of Lossiemouth, Elgin
(W. Taylor coll.).
100 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
Associated set of bones of a Trachodont Dinosaur from the Upper
Cretaceous, Alberta, Canada (W. H. Cutler coll.)
Molluscaa—25 Mollusca from the Upper Cretaceous, Alberta,
Canada (W. E. Cutler coll.).
20 Ammonites, &c., from the Gault, Aylesford, Kent.
A block of fossiliferous Pliocene Rock dredged up from North
Sea.
Polyzoa.—200 Polyzoa from the Chalk of Surrey.
Miscellaneous Invertebrata.—The Thomas Ruddy Collection of
Bala Fossils from North Wales, comprising 120 Ostracoda, 160
Trilobita, 61 Hchinoderma, 23 Annelida, 100 Cephalopoda, 143
Lamellibranchia, 37 Conularida, 540 Brachiopoda, 47 Corals, 63
Polyzoa, 4 Hydrozoa and 5 Sponges.
Plantw.—8 plant-remains from the Upper Cretaceous of Alberta,
Canada (W. H. Cutler coll.).
The total accessions during 1915 are as follows :—
Donation. Purchase. Exchange. Total.
329 101 — 430
Vertebrata = = -
Invertebrata - - - 5,123 2,382 8 7,513
Plante - - - - 18 8 ik it
Total = = a DATO 2,491 9 7,970
The total number of specimens registered is 8,810.
V1I.—Students and Visitors.
The number of visits paid to the Department by students and
other persons for the purpose of consultation or study during 1915
was 2,531.
The staff received 8 parties (169 persons) for demonstrations in
the public galleries.
Arthur Smith Woodward.
DEPARTMENT OF MINERALOGY. 101
DEPARTMENT OF MINERALOGY.
I.— Arrangement.
The Collection of Precious Stones formed by the late Sir Arthur
Church has been arranged according to species in a special case.
Labels have been prepared and specimens selected and arranged
for an Introductory Series of minerals and rocks for the Central
Hall. |
A selection of the more valuable and unique specimens has been
removed from the Gallery and placed in a safe.
Mineral and rock-specimens have been unpacked and examined,
and thirty-nine boxes have been packed and despatched.
I1.— Registration, Indexing, and Cataloguing.
All the specimens of minerals, rocks, and meteorites acquired
during the year have been registered, numbered, labelled, and
incorporated with the Collection.
The preparation of the slip-catalogues of the mineral-specimens
in the Collection, species by species, and of permanent labels giving
all available information for each specimen, has been continued for
the Divisions of the Oxides and Carbonates. In this connexion
permanent labels have been written and placed with the specimens
of minium, beauxite, chrysoberyl, calcite and magnesite ; permanent
labels have also been prepared for pyrolusite, crednerite, and
polianite ; and specimens belonging to Old Collections have been
labelled and entered in the General Register.
The preparation of a copy of the three-volume MS. Catalogue of
the Allan-Greg Collection of minerals has been completed ; modern
names of species have been written in the headings; and a new
index has been made.
The history of the physical apparatus in the Department has
been investigated, and the items in the Catalogue of Instruments
have been arranged as far as possible in order ot date of acquisition.
The large collection of rock-specimens from the Cape Verd
Islands presented by Mr. Walter Child has been examined, num-
bered, and arranged.
The preparation of a copy of the register of the specimens in the
Collection has been continued, and permanent labels containing
particulars drawn from the register have been prepared for the
specimens of minerals acquired during the year.
II1.— Preparation.
165 thin-sections of rocks have been prepared, and thirteen
specimens of laterite have been cut.
LV .—Investigation.
The crystallographic examination of chabazite and the associated
minerals from Co, Antrim collected by Mr. F. N. Ashcroft has
102 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
been completed. In the course of this work many crystals of
various types of chabazite and also of calcite, analcite, and natrolite
associated with it have been measured on the goniometer.
Complex crystals of sartorite and other sulph-arsenites from the
Binnenthal, aragonite, barytes, and garnet have been measured, and
crystals of iron phosphide from a blast-furnace have been studied
and described.
Various doubtful minerals have been examined and determined,
including brochantite, bayldonite, tsumebite, from Otavi, 8. W.
Africa ; albite, apophyllite, pectolite, prehnite, &c., from Pwllheli,
N. Wales; pascoite from Peru; roscherite and jezekite from
Saxony ; diopside from Burma ; topaz from Tasmania.
The refractive indices of the precious stones in the Church
Collection have been determined, and, where possible, the double
refraction, dichroism, and absorption have been observed.
Investigations have been made of the meteoric stones of Laun-
ton, Warbreccan, Cronstad, and Daniel’s Kuil, and quantitative
analyses of each have been made in the chemical laboratory.
V.—Departmental Library.
Cataloguing and Press-marking.—14 guard-books of letters
have been indexed.
239 volumes and 80 title-slips have been press-marked or re-
press-marked. All the accessions, including 673 plates, have been
catalogued and stamped.
Proofs of the Library Catalogue have been read and checked
against the slip-catalogue in the Department.
Accessions.—22 volumes of separate works, 24 periodicals (in
254 volumes and parts), 26 pamphlets, 11 parts of works, and 53
mining and survey reports have been added to the Library.
Binding.—94 volumes have been bound.
VI.— Acquisitions.
1,299 specimens have been acquired, namely :—
357 minerals, 930 rocks, and 12 meteorites.
The most important of these acquisitions is the remarkable
collection of 203 Precious Stones formed by the late Sir Arthur
Church (see pp. 101 and 103).
Exchanges of specimens have been arranged with the Bloemfon-
tein Museum and with Mr. J. Morrow Campbell.
The following mineral names added to the Museum List were
previously not represented by specimens in the collection :—
Ferrimolybdite, jezekite, metahewettite, paratooite, pascoite,
skemmatite.
The specimens acquired by presentation (arranged alphabetically
according to donors) and by exchange, and a selection of the more
important of those obtained by purchase, are as follows :—
DEPARTMENT OF MINERALOGY. 103
Minerals.
By Presentation :
Calcite from Trecastell mine, near Conway, Carnarvonshire :
by F. N. Ashcroft, Esq.
Ruby from Rimu, South Island, New Zealand: by B. C. Aston,
Esq.
Anhydrite and gypsum from the Hatfield Main Colliery, near
Doncaster : by H. Berry, Esq.
Salt from Cape Verd Islands: by Senhor Carvalho.
A blue crystal of zircon, probably from Siam: by the late Sir
Arthur Herbert Church, K.C.V.O., F.R.S.
A valuable collection of gem-stones formed by the late Sir
Arthur Herbert Church, K.C.V.O., F.R.S., presented, in accordance
with a wish expressed in his will, by his widow, Lady Church.
The collection comprises 203 choice and selected faceted stones,
170 of which are mounted in 162 gold rings (33 stones being un-
mounted): in addition, 29 small diamonds are employed in the
settings. The following 21 mineral species are represented :
corundum (13 stones), spinel (19), chrysoberyl (8), quartz (2),
chrysoprase (2), opal (15), zircon (69), peridot (7), phenakite (1),
spodumene (1), enstatite (1), moonstone (3), labradorite (1), garnet
(22), beryl (4), topaz (8), andalusite (1), cordierite (2), tourmaline
(22), sphene (1), turquoise (1). Amongst the garnets is a fine
example of spessartite, the rare manganese-garnet ; amongst the
tourmalines a very fine rubellite; amongst the opals very good
examples of “black” opal and fire-opal ; and amongst the zircons
a fine suite of green stones and two remarkable blue stones.
Chalcedony pseudomorphous after bone from Radley Park,
Berks: by Dr. Frank Corner.
Glauconite from Cowcroft, Bucks: by T. Crook, Esq.
Aragonite from Alston, Cumberland: by Rev. Thomas C.
Crosby.
Radiated topaz (pyenite) from Mount Bischoff, Tasmania: by
Rev. Alfred Curtis.
Forms of artificial silica: by Allan B. Dick, Esq.
Gilbertite and quartz pseudomorphs simulating an orthoceroid
fossil, from near St. Austell, Cornwall: by Philip Dollman, Esq.
Chrysotile, and 10 specimens of gold and tin ores, all from
Rhodesia : by Wm. Drabble, Esq.
Artificial preparations of various forms of silica: by Dr. C. NV.
Fenner.
Blue beryl from Mont Blane: by Miss J. M. Fry.
Geikelite from Ceylon: by Sir A. Geikie, K.C.B., PRS.
Pyrrhotite from Pondoland, South Africa: by W. H. Goodchild,
Esq.
Fluor, a group of large green cubes, from Faulhorn ; adularia,
as tabular crystals with asbestos, from Maderanerthal, and, as
twisted crystals with black zonal enclosures, from Disentis ; and
quartz, enclosing rutile, from Sasso rosso, St. Gotthard ; all from
Switzerland: by Rev. J. M. Gordon.
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Almandine garnet from Kidsty Pike, Westmoreland: by J. F.
N. Green, Esq.
Monazite sand from Burma: by Miss D. M. Jewett.
Blende, molybdenite, phosphorite, and alunogen, from Japanese
localities : by Prof. Kotora Jimbo.
Vivianite from the Port Harcourt railway, Omobialla district,
Southern Nigeria: by His Hzcellency Col. Sir Frederick J. D.
Lugard, G.C.M.G., C.B., D.S.O.
Vanadinite from Arizona: by C. Maitland, Esq.
Paratooite, a variety of rock-phosphate from South Australia,
named and described by the donor: by Sir Douglas Mawson.
Chalcedony pebbles, cut and polished, from St. Leonards-on-
Sea, Sussex: by W. H. Pemberton-Barnes, Esq.
Heematite and nitratine from Taltal, Chili: by Major F. J.
Ricarde-Seaver.
Dolomite, mispickel, axinite, and blende, a series of specimens
collected by the donor in 1914 at Mt. Avala, Belgrade, Serbia ;
and albite on quartz, from Gimlet Rock, Pwllheli, Carnarvonshire :
by Arthur Russell, Esq.
Axinite from Penmaenmawr, Carnarvonshire: by H. C. Sargent,
Esq.
Artificial crystals of iron phosphide from a_ blast-furnace: by
Dr. J. E. Stead, F.R.S.
A large crystal of cassiterite weighing 8,253 grams, from
Karibib, South-West Africa: by Percy C. Tarbutt, Esq.
Alunogen from Dolcoath mine, Camborne, Cornwall: by &.
Arthur Thomas, Esq.
Phosphorite from Curacao, West Indies: by W. H. Wickes,
Esq.
Blende as large black cubes, and stream-tin from Lerui’n Kano,
Northern Nigeria : by A. Stanley Williams, Esq.
A fine isolated crystal of cassiterite fram Tronoh village, Kinta,
Perak, Federated Malay States: by Cecil Wray, Esq.
Corundum and columbite from Cape Province, South Africa :
by J. Truro Wylde, Esq.
By Purchase :
A series of specimens from new occurrences in Madagascar,
including large brown crystals of beryl, clear yellow crystals of
orthoclase, corundum, tourmaline, spessartite, amazon- -stone, korne-
rupine, ampangabeite,. bismutite, quartz.
New occurrences of dungeees minerals :—including atacamite,
connellite (a fine specimen), seligmannite, onofrite, metahewettite,
hydrozincite from Utah 3 precious opal in the form of a tree branch
from Nevada; a fine mass of crystals of native silver from
Michigan ; skemmatite from South Carolina ; pseudomorphous
quartz, leucophcenicite, and manganosite from New Jersey.
Miargyrite from Mexico.
Albite, apophyllite, pectolite, prehnite, and quartz from Pwllheli,
Carnarvonshire.
DEPARTMENT OF MINERALOGY. 105
Miscellaneous specimens illustrating British occurrences selected
from the collections of the late Mr. F. W. Rudler, Mr. W. Semmons,
and Mr. Warburton, including :—fluor, apatite, chalcotrichite, and
copper-glance, from Cornwall ; chalybite from Cumberland ;
anhydrite from Newark.
Rocks.
By Presentation.
Phonolite from the Wolf Rock, Cornwall: by Walter Barratt,
Esq.
Set of 16 specimens collected by the donor in British East
Africa: by Arthur Champion, Esq.
A large collection, numbering 879 specimens, collected by the
donor in the Cape Verd Islands: by Walter Child, Esq.
Topaz-quartz-porphyry from Mt. Bischoff, Tasmania: by Rev.
Alfred Curtis.
Lava from the volcano of Sakurajima, Japan (eruption of
January, 1914): by Prof. Kotora Jimbo.
Metamorphosed diabase with axinite from St. Ives, Cornwall :
by F. P. Mennell, Esq.
Andesite from Mt. Tarawera, New Zealand (eruption of June,
1886): by Dr. A. B. Rendle, F.RS.
Porphyritic basalt from Rye Water, Ayrshire: by John Smith,
Esq.
Riebeckite-rhyolites from Lerui’n Kano, Northern Nigeria :
by A. Stanley Williams, Esq.
By Exchange :
24 specimens of laterite from West African localities.
Meteorites.
By Presentation :
Bholghati, Deloi, Orissa, India, a fragment weighing 28-6
grams of the stone which fell on 29th October, 1905.
Chainpur, Azamgarh, United Provinces, India, a fragment
weighing 399 grams of the stone which fell on 9th. May, 1907.
Karkh, Jhalawan, Baluchistan, 18 chips weighing together 226
grams of the stone which fell on 27th April, 1905.
Khohar, Banda, United Provinces, India, a fragment weighing
338 grams of the stone which fell on 19th September, 1910.
Kuttipuram, Malabar, Madras, India, a fragment weighing 725
grams of the stone which fell on 6th April, 1914.
Lakangaon, Nimar, Indore, India, a fragment weighing 93:8
grams of the stone which fell on 24th November, 1910.
Mirzapur Mauza, Dahariabad, United Provinces, India, a
fragment weighing 208°8 grams of the stone which fell on 7th
January, 1910.
Shupiyan, Kashmir, India, a fragment weighing 68-9 grams of
the stone which fell in April, 1912.
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These 8 meteoric stones : by the Director of the Geological Survey
of India.
Delegate, Wellesley Co., New South Wales, an etched slice
weighing 186 grams of this meteoric iron: by the Department of
Mines of New South Wales.
Molong, Ashburnham Co., New South Wales, fragments weighing
2,022 grams of this meteoric iron : by the Departrnent of Mines of
New South Wales.
Gilgoin, Clyde Co., New South Wales, a fragment weighing
261:6 grams of one (No. 7) of the stones: by J. C. H. Mingaye,
Esq.
By Exchange :
Winburg, Orange Free State, South Africa, an etched fragment
weighing 42 grams of the iron seen to fall in 1881.
All the above Meteorites except Gilgoin and Kuttipuram belong
to falls hitherto unrepresented in the Museum Collection.
VIT.—Donations of Duplicates.
Duplicate specimens of meteorites have been given to the
Geological Survey Museum at Calcutta and to Sir William Crookes,
F.R.S.
VIIl.—Students and Visitors.
The number of visits recorded as made to the Department for
purposes of consultation or study is 510. Many specimens of
minerals and rocks have been determined for visitors and
correspondents.
G. T. Prior.
DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY. 107
DEPARTMENT OF BoTANY.
I.—Arrangement and Conservation.
During the past year 24,050 specimens have been incorporated
with the Herbarium. This number includes 17,200 Flowering
Plants, 2,637 Vascular Cryptogams, 2,035 Mosses, 222 Hepatics,
495 Lichens, 378 Algze, and 1,083 Fungi.
Flowering Plants.—Additions acquired during the year by donation,
purchase and exchange have been mounted and incorporated. Pro-
gress has been made with the determination, selection and incorpora-
tion of the early Australian collections, and outstanding specimens
have been determined and incorporated in various families, especially
Melastomacez, Onagraceze, Loasaceze, Turneraceze, and Rosacece.
Work of revision and re-arrangement has been done in various
families and genera, especially the genera Acaena and Rubus
which have been revised and arranged in accordance with recent
monographs. <A large accumulation of unnamed fruits and seeds
has been identified and incorporated and the first half of the fruit
collection has been re-arranged.
The separation and re-arrangement in the new gallery of the
European specimens has been completed.
Ferns and Mosses.—tThe selection and incorporation of outstand-
ing collections of Ferns and Fern-Allies have been continued, and the
incorporation of various collections of Indian, Chinese, and Central
American Mosses has been completed.
Alge.—tThe sorting of the Merrifield herbarium has been com-
pleted and the George Herbarium of British Algze has been largely
determined and arranged preparatory to incorporation. Progress
has been made with the incorporation of outstanding material.
Fungi and Lichens.—In the general collection outstanding
material of Sphaeropsidez has been incorporated and in part that of
Hyphomycetes ; the arrangement of the Polyporacee has been
revised. Progress has been made with the revision and incorpora-
tion of the British Lichens.
Mycetozoa.—Various new collections have been prepared for
incorporation, as before with the assistance of Miss G. Lister.
Exhibition Series.—In the Public Gallery the general exhibition
of Algz has been re-arranged and progress has been made with the
exhibition of British Seaweeds. Work of revision has been done
generally and numerous additions have been made. In the Index
“Museum in the Central Hall progress has been made with the
preparation of the exhibition illustrating the lower Cellular plants
(Thallophytes).
108 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
Catalogues and (Guides.—Progress has been made with the
preparation of the Flora of Jamaica (Vols. iv and v) by Mr. W.
Fawcett and Dr. Rendle ; and with the revision of the first volume
of the Monograph of British Lichens and the preparation of a guide
to the exhibition of British Lichens by Miss Annie Lorrain Smith.
Some work on the preparation of the Catalogue of the Sloane
Herbarium has been done by Mr. J. Britten. An account of the
freshwater Algee collected on the “Terra Nova” expedition has been
prepared by Dr. F. EH. Fritsch, and of the marine Algze by Mr. Gepp.
II.— Investigation.
Collections have been determined wholly or in part from the
following localities and collectors : New Guinea (Wollaston expedi-
tion, Miss Gibbs), New Caledonia (Compton), Sumatra (Robinson
and Kloss), Uganda (Diimmer), Queensland (Miss Gibbs), and
various smaller collections from different localities.
Dr. Rendle has completed his study of the Tropical Africa genera
and species of the family Moracez, and Mr. W. Fawcett and Dr.
Rendle have continued their work on the Jamaica species of the
families of Dicotyledons, mainly Leguminosee. Mr. Baker has
continued his work on the Tropical African species of Indigofera and
has determined the Anonacez collected in Sumatra by H. O. Forbes.
Mr. Willmott has continued his critical study of various European
genera. Mr. Gepp has investigated small collections of Ferns and
Algee from various localities ; and Mr. Ramsbottom has continued
his work on Microfungi.
Assistance has been given to numerous British and foreign
workers engaged on special investigations, and many specimens and
small collections have been determined for students and collectors.
Valuable assistance has been rendered to various Government
departments in response to inquiries on matters connected with the
war.
In connection with work done in the Department specimens have
been generously lent by the Director of the Royal Gardens, Kew ;
the Regius Keeper of Botany, Edinburgh ; the Bristol Museum ;
and the Government of Jamaica.
Undetermined material has been lent for study and determination
to the Director of the Royal Gardens, Kew ; the Regius Keeper of
Botany, Edinburgh ; and Mr. H. N. Dixon, Northampton.
II1.— Departmental Library.
The arrangement, cataloguing, press-marking and other routine
work has been carried out. 165 volumes and 187 pamphlets were
acquired by donation and 71 volumes by purchase—in all 236
volumes and 187 pamphlets ; these numbers include 39 periodicals
in 192 parts presented, and 47 periodicals in 401 parts purchased—
in all 86 periodicals in 593 parts. 71 volumes and 30 pamphlets
DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY. 109
from the library of the late J. A. Tulk were presented by the
Committee of Middlesex Hospital.
88 volumes have been bound and several others repaired.
IV .— Publications.
There have been no official publications issued by the Trustees
but work has been continued on the Flora of Jamaica by Mr. W.
Fawcett and Dr. Rendle and on the second edition of Vol. i. of the
Monograph of British Lichens by Miss A. Lorrain Smith.
The publications by Members of the Staff issued by the
permission of the Trustees number 13, and 23 have been issued by
other Students of the Collections.
V.— Acquisitions.
(1) By Donation.
The following are the more important additions to the British
Herbarium :—Flowering Plants ; 85 specimens from C. E. Britton,
Hsq. ; 124 specimens from Rev. E. 8S. Marshall ; 54 specimens from
©. E. Salmon, Esq. ; and 49 specimens from the Watson Botanical
Exchange Club. A large collection of Seaweeds, Mosses and Lichens
by the late E. George, from the London County Council.
The following are the more important additions to the General
Herbarium :—B. Digby, Esq., 92 Siberian plants; Mrs. M. E.
Prescott-Decie, 413 specimens from Northern India ; H. N. Ridley,
Hsq., C.M.G., 943 Selangor plants; Dr. E. Hartert, 50 Sahara
plants; A. H. Kitson, Hsq., 19 West African plants; P. Amaury
Talbot, Esq., 82 specimens from Degema, Southern Nigeria ; T. F.
Cheeseman, Hsq., 33 New Zealand plants; Dr. R. 8. Rogers, 82
Australian Orchids ; Dr. F. Stoward, 89 West Australian plants ;
A. H. Lyell, Esq., 139 North American plants.
The late J. A. Tulk’s collection of Diatoms, comprising 2,665
slides from the Committee of Middlesex Hospital.
(2) By Purchase.
The following are the more important additions ;—The Botanical
Exchange Club, 419 British Flowering plants ; U. Faurie, 1,800
Formosa plants; R. A. Diimmer, 800 plants from Uganda and
British East Africa ; and Miss A. Pegler, 50 Fungi from Kentani,
South Africa. Continuations of published sets of EHuropean plants
from H. Dahlstedt, 55 specimens ; H. Sudre, 100 specimens ; and
of North American Algz by Collins, Holden and Setchell, 100
specimens.
(3) By Exchange of Duplicates.
The Regius Keeper, Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh, 2,401
plants from China, Tibet and India; Director, South African
110 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
Museum, Cape Town, 100 Basutoland plants; Director, National
Herbarium, Sydney, 101 Australian plants; Curator, National
Museum, Melbourne, 28 Australian plants; Botanist, Bureau of
Science, Manila, 1,643 Philippine plants ; Director, Museu Goeldi,
Para, Brazil, 94 Brazilian plants ; California Academy of Sciences,
San Francisco, 165 North American plants.
V1I.—Students and Visitors.
The number of visits to the Department for consultation and
research during the year was 3,226.
VII.— Demonstrations.
Demonstrations on the collections have been given to members
of the Ethical Society and of the Birbeck College Natural History
Society.
A. B. Rendle.
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Page
ACCOUNTS (SPECIAL TRUST FUNDS, 1916-1917):
BRIDGEWATER : = é 2 = f 2 2 2 Le 4
FARNBOROUGH - = £ 4 : = 2 = s = Z 4
SWINEY - - : : = 4 3 2 2 : 7 s 5
BIRCH - - - - . - - - - - - - - 5
CHARLES DRURY EDWARD FORTNUM - - - - - - - 6
CARCHEMISH EXCAVATIONS” - - - - - - - - - 6
H. L. FLORENCE - E 5 is z a 2 i : z 7
NUMBERS OF PERSONS ADMITTED :
BRITISH MUSEUM - - - a = u 2 2 i 8
BRITISH MUSEUM (NATURAL HISTORY) - - - - - Sip
HOURS OF ADMISSION:
BRITISH MUSEUM - - 2 : = ‘ x s 2 EN tI()
BRITISH MUSEUM (NATURAL HIsTorY) - - - - - =o als
GENERAL STATEMENT OF PROGRESS :
VISITORS - - - - E E : = 2 - " ain ee
READING ROOM AND NEWSPAPER ROOM - - - - - =p 14
THE WAR—PROTECTIVE MEASURES - - - - - - =e 4
MILITARY SERVICE OF ''HE STAFF - - = : = E Sent!
PRINCIPAL ACQUISITIONS - : - - - 5 e f eke 15
PUBLICATIONS - - - : = = 2 : = aie Ream
ARRANGEMENT OF COLLECTIONS, &c. :
PRINTED BOOKS - E E z 2 E s : 2 : Bee SG
MANUSCRIPTS - - : = : Z e = 0
ORIENTAL PRINTED Booxs AND MSB. - - - : : = =
PRINTS AND DRAWINGS - - - : - : = 2 : ae 4
ORIENTAL PRINTS AND DRAWINGS - - - - - - = 32
EGYPTIAN ANTIQUITIES - - - - - : = = : S34
ASSYRIAN ANTIQUITIES - - - ¢- - = = = = Erna.
GREEK AND ROMAN ANTIQUITIES - - - - : : : == 36
BRITISH AND MEDI#ZVAL ANTIQUITIES - - - - - - Sin Bhs)
CoIns AND MEDALS - - - B E = E 4 ~ Let
ACQUISITIONS :
NEWSPAPERS - - - : : £ 5 2 _ " MS
PRINTED BOOKS - - : : = : 2 u ee ails
MAPS - - - - - - - - - - - = aS
Music 2 - - - - - - - - - - - 0) als
MANUSCRIPTS - - - - - - - - = Sel
ORIENTAL PRINTED BooKs AND MSS. - - - - - - = eo
PRINTS AND DRAWINGS - - = - = = = : 3 NURS
ORIENTAL PRINTS AND DRAWINGS. - - _ = = = Seg ey
EGYPTIAN ANTIQUITIES - - - - : = . = = S335)
ASSYRIAN ANTIQUITIES - - - - - E : < 2 a3
GREEK AND ROMAN ANTIQUITIES - - - - : : 2 COG
PREHISTORIC, HARLY BRITISH AND OTHER ANTIQUITIES - - = 39
CERAMIC AND GLASS OBJECTS - - - - - - - 41
ORIENTAL AND ETHNOGRAPHICAL OBsECTS (ANCLUDING THOSE
ADDED TO THE CHRISTY COLLECTION) - - - - - =) yeh
COINS AND MEDALS - - - - - E : = 5 ao dS
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BRITISH MUSEUM (NATURAL HISTORY.)
GENERAL STATEMENT OF PROGRESS: Page
VISITORS - - - - E a = é - : 2 a a8
SWINEY LECTURES - . - - = = 2 = : 4 Lr AS
MUSEUMS ASSOCIATION - = = - ~ 5 = 2 . Se hi
TROUT-FLIES EXHIBITION - - - - - = - - - 48
THE WAR AND THE MUSEUM - - oD Bis - - - - -48, 49
BRITISH AND RUSSIAN MEN OF SCIENCE - - - - - ay oO)
GRAIN PESTS COMMITTEE - es = = - - - = = 50)
STRANDED WHALES = = = 3 = 2 i « = oO
INVESTIGATION OF ANTARCTIC WHALES AND SEALS) - - - -50, 51
OTHER INVESTIGATIONS - - = : : = = = E ee bill
BEQUESTS AND GIFTS) - - - = - - = = : oe al
PRINCIPAL PURCHASES - - - - - - - - - - 53
DUPLICATES - = a = = s = P - w ce a eae
PUBLICATIONS - : : 2 : 3 : 3 2 u f i BS
INDEX MUSEUM - - - - = = : = = Sai a OD
ECONOMIC ZOOLOGY - = : < : = 2 = y 79)
ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY - - - - - - - - Pes Fits
ARRANGEMENT AND CONSERVATION OF COLLECTIONS :
ZOOLOGY - - = - = - = - = - - - - 57
ENTOMOLOGY - : : - = = 2 2 - - 2 7
GEOLOGY - - - : - : = - = E . = Eye sil
MINERALOGY - : = = c : 2 2 i 2 E - 90
BOTANY - - - - = - 2 = : : - = er oG
ACQUISITIONS :
ZOOLOGY - - = - = : = E E 2 p ‘ - 62
ENTOMOLOGY - : 2 : E 2: : = : bi b Shi 7h
GEOLOGY - : - = : - : = = : 2 S85
MINERALOGY - - - = = c= = = 2 2 . 2, =, 9
BOTANY - = r = - : : : = P : : Beene ys
DUPLICATES AND EXCHANGES :
ZOOLOGY - - - - - - - - - : : Pee Bt
ENTOMOLOGY - - - = e : = = é = 3 x TG
GEOLOGY - - - - - - : 2 2 : 2 3 St als
MINERALOGY - - - 2 2 - - P = - 2 OFF
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ZOOLOGICAL - - - : : = z S E : : =e 269
ENTOMOLOGICAL - - - : © = 2 : - B ee Ti
GEOLOGICAL - - - - - : 2 E E A < ey i
MINERALOGICAL) - - - - - - - - - - = 91
BOTANICAL - - - - - < 2 2 = 2 : SOF
PUBLICATIONS, DEPARTMENTAL :
ZOOLOGY - - - - - - - - - : E 5 Sigg
ENTOMOLOGY - - - - - . = = : A 2 Se rie
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BOTANY - - - - - - - 2 : 5 : 3 ENO?
STUDENTS : ;
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ENTOMOLOGY - - - - = - = = = s : = 1.80
GEOLOGY - - - - - = - < : u : 2289
MINERALOGY - : - = = : E 2 = & : = Os
BOTANY - - . . - - - - - = = ; = 98
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BOTANICAL - E - = - : - : 3 F : a) £96
DEMONSTRATIONS :
BoTany - - - - = : = = - = 3 - 98
IMPERIAL BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY - - - = = : eae
INDEX GENERUM ET SPECIERUM ANIMALIUM - - - - - 55
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I.—AN ACCOUNT of the Recrerrts and EXPENDITURE of the
BRIDGEWATER FUND, from the 1st April 1916 to the 31st March 1917.
STOCK,
CASH: Wa 23% Consols.
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To BALANCES on the Ist April 1916 - - ai WAOT mlTer al 13/6593. 2
— DIVIDENDS received on 13,6597. 3s. 2d. Stock
in 24 per Cent. ’Consols, bequeathed
by the Earl of Bridgewater, VIZ.
On the 5th April 1916 = £585 9 7 4
3 5th July 1916 - = come 4
Hf 5th October 1916 - 8 7 4
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——— 341 9 4
— RENT OF A REAL ESTATE, Whitchurch,
bequeathed by the Earl of Bridgewater (less
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£.784 7 8 13,659 3 2
STOCK,
CASH. 24% Consols.
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By One Year's SALARY of the Egerton Librarian - 175 -— —-
— BALANCES ON THE 31ST MARcH 1917,
carried to Account for 1917-1918 - - = s GO9. ies 13,659 3 2
£.784 7 8 13,659 3 2
Il.—AN ACCOUNT of the ReEceErrPtTs and accreaicnia of the
FARNBOROUGH FUND, from the 1st April 1916 to the 31st March 1917.
STOCK,
CASH. 24% Consols.
Eo. he) Ce Seas) (a.
‘TO BALANCES on the Ist April 1916 - - - - 104.°2 8 2,000) LOL AT
— DIVIDENDS received on 2,879/. 10s. 7d. Stock in
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Lord Farnborough, viz. :
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— BALANCES ON THE 31st MArcH 1917,
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£.176 2 4 2,879 10 7
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ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 5
IlII.—AN ACCOUNT of the Receipts and EXPENDITURE
of the SWINEY FUND, from the 1st April 1916 to the 31st March 1917.
STOCK,
CASH. 24% Consols.
Sr Sate Le Se sted:
To BALANCES on the 1st April 1916 - - Soh t20s 3? 5,744 -— 8
— DIVIDENDS. received on 5,7441. - 8d. Stock in
2% per Cent. Consols, bequeathed by
Dr. George Swiney for Lectures on
Geology, viz. : :
On the 5th April 1916 - £.35 18 —-
» oth July 1916 - - 315) 1S)
» oth October 1916 - 35 18 —
» Oth January 1917 - 35 18 —
—_——— 143 12 -
£.163 15 1 5,744 -— 8
STOCK,
CASH. 24% Consols.
Le 8 Sela cae
By Amount paid to Dr. J. S. Flett, for Lectures on
Geology in 1916 - - - - - -' 150 - =
— BALANCES ON THE 31ST MaArcH 1917,
carried to Account for 1917-1918 - - - 13 15 1 5,744 - 8
£.163 15 1 5,744 - 8
IV.—AN ACCOUNT of the ReEcEerpts and EXPENDITURE of
the BIRCH FUND from the 1st April 1916 to the 31st March 1917.
STOCK,
CASH. 24% Consols.
£.) Se a. £. 8. d.
To BALANCE on the Ist April 1916 - - - - — 565 3 9
— DIVIDENDS received on 565/. 3s. 9d. Stock in
24 per Cent. Consols, bequeathed
by Dr. Birch in 1766, for the three
Under Librarians of the British
Museum, viz. :
On the 5th April 1916 - -£.3 10 8
» oth July 1916 - = 3 LONAS
» 5th October 1916 - =) LO ss
» 5th January 1917 - “eo LOE 8
14 2 8
£.14 2 8 565 3 9
STOCK,
CASH. 24% Consols.
££. syd. fe sd,
By LEGAcy paid to the three Under Librarians of
the British Museum, whose offices existed
in 1766, viz., the Keepers of the Departments
of Printed Books, Manuscripts, and Natural
History - - - - - - - - 1A 25S
— BALANCE ON THE 31ST MARCH 1917, carried
to Account for 1917-1918 - - - - — 566 3 9
£14 2 8 565 3 9
6 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
V.—AN ACCOUNT of the Rrecrerprs and EXPENDITURE of the bequest of
the late MR. CHARLES DRURY EDWARD FORTNUM from the
1st April 1916 to the 31st March 1917.
STOCK,
CASH. 5% War Loan.
eS ee Cl £. sid.
To BALANCE on the Ist April 1916 - - - ~ - 1,840 - -
— 5% WAR LOAN, 1929-1947, purchased with 1,805/. — 1,900 - -
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5% War Loan, 1929-1947 - - - - 1805 -— —
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to Account for 1917-1918 - - - - 38 3 4 1,900 - —-
£.1,843 3 4 1,900 -— —-
VI.—AN ACCOUNT of the Recerrrts and EXPENDITURE of the
CARCHEMISH EXCAVATIONS FUND from the
1st April 1916 to the 31st March 1917.
“To BALANCE on the Ist April 1916 - - - - - - -
By AMOUNT expended on Excavations -
— BALANCE on the 31st March 1917, carried to Asset for 1917- 1918
CASH.
&. 8. d.
88 sal’
£.88 14 1
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VII.—AN ACCOUNT of the Receipts and EXPENDITURE of the bequest
of the late MR. HENRY LOUIS FLORENCE from the
1st August 1916 to the 31st March 1917.
STOCK,
6% Exchequer
CASH. Bond, 1920.
£. 8. a Ba ye
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£.1,018 14 9 1,000 -— -
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CASH. Bond, 1920.
£. 3s. a re a
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to Account for 1917-1918 - - - - ifs) da) 1,000 -— -
£.1,018 14 9 1,000 - —:
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10 ACCOUNTS ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
The British Museum, Bloomsbury (including the Departments
of Printed Books and Maps, Manuscripts, Oriental Printed Books
and Manuscripts, Prints and Drawings, Egyptian and Assyrian
Antiquities, Greek and Roman Antiquities, British and Medizeval
Antiquities and Hthnography, and Coins and Medals) is normally
open to the public free daily (except on Good Friday and Christmas
Day and days of Public Fast or Thanksgiving) as follows :—
On Weerxpays from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
After 4 p.m. in January, February, November, December,
and after 5 p.m. in March, oe October, only certain of
the galleries remain open, viz.
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Exhibitions of Manuscripts, Printed
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ne ce | Anglo-Saxon, Medizeval and Hthnographical
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SATURDAYS.
Bequest Room.
On Sunpay AFTERNOONS :—
From 2 to 4 p-m. in January, February, November,
December.
Diese ies October,
yy 2 pp ed 8O: en March September.
2) ern » 955 April, May, June, July, August.
Persons applying for the purposes of research and reference are
admitted to the Reading Room under certain regulations every week-
day, except the days specified below, from 9 a.m. until 7 p.m. The
Newspaper Room is open, under similar regulations, from 10 a.m.
until 5 p.m.
The Reading Room, Newspaper Room, and Students’ Rooms in
the Library and Department of Manuscripts are closed on Sundays,
Good Friday, Christmas Day, and the first four weekdays in March
and September.
ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. igh
Other Students’ Rooms are closed on Sundays, Good Friday,
and Christmas Day, and occasionally for cleaning.
Students are admitted generally to the several Departments
on weekdays, from 10 till 4 or 5 o’clock ; and to the Sculpture
Galleries from 9 o’clock to the hour of closing.
At present, however, the provision for keeping the galleries
open having been suspended by His Majesty’s Government in the
interests of economy, the Exhibition Galleries are wholly closed to
the public. The Reading Room is open to Students from 9 a.m.
to 5 p.m., the Newspaper Room and Manuscript Students’ Room
from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., on every weekday except Good Friday,
Christmas Day, and the first four weekdays in March and Sep-
tember.
British fae nade G. Kenyon,
2 April 1917. Director and Principal Librarian.
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ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. £3
The Exhibition Galleries of the British Museum (Natural History),
Cromwell Road, South Kensington, including the Departments of
Zoology, Entomology, Geology and Paleontology, Mineralogy, and
Botany, are open to the public (with certain restrictions due to the
need for economy) free, daily, except Good Friday and Christmas
Day, and days of Public Fast or Thanksgiving.
The regulations at present in force are as under :—
The GALLERIES are open to the PUBLIC, free, as follows :—
Week-Days.
Daily.—Central Hall (Special Exhibits), North Hall (Domesti-
cated Animals, &c.), Bird Gallery, Upper and Lower Mammal
Galleries, Shell Gallery, and Botanical Gallery.
On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.—F ossil Mammal Gallery,
Fossil Reptile Gallery, and Mineral Gallery. (Hastern side).
On Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays.—Coral Gallery, Star-
fish Gallery, Reptile Gallery, Insect Gallery, Fish Gallery, and
Whale Room. (Western side.) Z
SUNDAYS.
Central Hall, North Hall, Bird Gallery, Mammal Galleries
Gncluding Whale Room), Hosa Mammal Gallery, Fossil ee
Gallery, and Mineral Gallery.
The Hours of Admission are :—
On Werexk-Days, a, the es from 10 a.m.,
January... : x a foe A tOuAe 1 ye pm
February 1 is ake Ua ee st LOA hae er) eee
=a. 13> t0) ends. bid say Ae Bee ay -
March is see er: RG ass ea yisd
April to August (inclusive) veh ay Pea &
September ... sy ms Sodas, gocou yes
October... eos ms ae a A) i
November and Wiceouber Line ne ne bFey inialk ‘3
On Sunpays, in
January ... oe i from 2 to 4 p.m
February 1 to 14 . ay mA sak Pree UY ety FCO Liss
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March Ane ve A a: Les Wayans Ulich
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September .. : aed 55 lade te pihaed MOLcaO > ob
October .... ; b ols ne i aken WEN a0 35
November and December Be | 2 4
Persons are admitted to study in nee Departments every week-
day from 10 till 4 o’clock.
The following Galleries are closed continuously for the duration
of the War, viz.—Fossil Fishes ; Fossil Cephalopods ;_ other Fossil
Shells, ete. ; Fossil Corals and Sponges, and Fossil Plants ; Strati-
graphical and Special Paleeontological Collections.
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14 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
IX. GENERAL ProGRess AT THE Muszum, BLoomspury.
The work of the Museum and all statistics connected with it
have been fundamentally affected by the decision to which the
Government came, early in the year, to close the Museums and
public galleries in London generally, in the interests of economy.
Certain exceptions were made to the original drastic proposal. It
was obvious that the service of the Library and free access to the
Reading Room could not cease without serious injury to public
interests, since the Library of the British Museum is the principal
national storehouse of knowledge, constantly in request for purposes
of business and research of all kinds. It was also found possible to
maintain the service of the Manuscript Students’ Room, which is
essential for the students of history. All the exhibition galleries,
however, were closed on March Ist, and the Museum thenceforth
ceased its educative and recreative work on behalf of the public
generally, as distinct from the students of printed books and of
manuscripts.
Statistics of the number of visitors consequently come to an end
automatically after the end of February, up to which time there had
been 102,733 visitors, as compared with 121,182 in the corres-
ponding months of the previous year.
Visitors to the several departments were fewer than in the
previous year, though the total was considerable. Visits to the
Reading Room amounted to 134,501, as compared with 178,410 ;
to the Newspaper Room 9,461, as against 12,650 ; and to the other
departments (which were naturally affected by the closing of the
galleries) 11,124, as against 24,934.
The staff of the Museum has been very much depleted, only
the minimum necessary for the conservation of the collections and
the service of the Library being retained. At the end of the year
115 members of the staff at Bloomsbury were absent on military
service, and 59 from the Natural History Museum. No member of
the staff below the age of 26, and fit for general service, remained
in the two Museums, and very few below the age of 35. Seven
members of the staff have lost their lives in the service of their
country ; 20 have been wounded ; two have received the Military
Cross, and three the Military Medal.
Progress with the re-arrangement of the collections has naturally
been very slight ; since, in addition to the absence of staff, some
materials required for fittings have been practically unobtainable.
On the closing of the galleries, the opportunity was taken to
remove the larger part of the collections from the show-cases, and
to store them in places of greater safety. Fortunately no injury
has been incurred through air attacks.
GENERAL PROGRESS AT THE MUSEUM. 15
n the several
ie
The number of separate objects incorporated
Departments during 1916 is as follows :
Printed Books :
Books and Pamphlets - - - - - 20,697
Serials and Parts of Volumes - - - a ee Aas
Maps and Atlases = - - - ~ - 1,234
Music - - - ~ - - - - 9,905
Newspapers (single numbers) —- - - - 300,594
Miscellaneous - - - - - - - 3,400
Manuscripts and Seals - - - - - - 189
Oriental Printed Books and Manuscripts - - 2,037
Prints and Drawings - - - - - = 1,140
¥ aN (Oriental) = - - - - 225
Heyptian and Assyrian Antiquities - - - 208
Greek and Roman Antiquities - - - - 73
British and Medizval Antiquities - - - - 1,569
Coins and Medals - - - ~ - - 834
Total - - - - - 396,520
The number of accessions is, of course, small, since purchases
have been almost impossible ; but again the Museum has cause to
be grateful to many generous friends. The most notable among the
accessions, which are set out at: greater length in the departmental
reports, is the late Lord Avebury’s collections illustrating the earliest
Iron Age in Europe, obtained by excavations at Hallstatt in 1869
and now presented by his son, together with stone implements from
Le Moustier and elsewhere. Some fine medizval ornaments and a
considerable number of prints and drawings have also been presented
by various friends of the Museum.
Steps have been taken to obtain for the Museum a representative
collection of war posters, trench literature, trench maps, and aerial
photographs ; in which undertaking cordial assistance has been
given by the military authorities. Attention may also be called
to the collection of German war-medals, which, though artistically
contemptible, are historically valuable, and form an instructive
commentary on the psychology of the nation.
The following publications have been issued in the course of the
ear :—
i Catalogue of Books printed in the XVth Century now in the
British Museum. Part IV. Italy: Subiaco and Rome. With 13
plates of facsimiles. 4to. 18s.
Ancient Greek Inscriptions. Part IV. Section II. Fol. 1. 10s.
Catalogue of English Coins. The Norman Kings, by G. C.
Brooke. In two vols., with an introduction and 62 plates. 8vo. 21.
British Museum, Frederic G. Kenyon,
2nd April, 1917. Director and Principal Librarian.
16 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
X.—PROGRESS made in the ARRANGEMENT AND DESCRIPTION OF
THE COLLECTIONS, AND ACCOUNT OF OBJECTS ADDED TO
THEM in the Year 1916 (Bloomsbury).
DEPARTMENT OF PRINTED Books.
I. Arrangement.—The works added to the collection during the
past year have, as far as possible, been placed on the shelves of
the Library according to the system of classification adopted in
the Museum.
The press-marks, indicating their respective localities, have been
marked on the inside and affixed to the back of each volume.
The total number of these press-marks amounts to 59,251 ; in
addition to which 70,282 press-marks have been altered, on books
and in the catalogues, in consequence of changes and re-arrange- _
ments carried out in the Library ; 24,418 labels have been affixed
to books and volumes of newspapers, and 57,633 obliterated labels
have been renewed.
The number of stamps impressed upon articles received is
318,209.
2,236 presses of books and newspapers have been dusted in the
course of the year.
II. Catalogung.—29,856 titles haye been written for the
General Catalogue and for the Catalogues of Maps and Music.
Printing.— 28,441 titles and index-slips for the General Cata-
logue, 2,450 for the Map Catalogue, and 12,200 for the Music
Catalogue, have been printed during the year.
Incorporation.— General Catalogue. —28,163 title-slips and
index-slips have been incorporated into each of the three copies of
this Catalogue. This has rendered it necessary, in order to maintain
as far as possible the alphabetical arrangement, to re-arrange 48,609
title-slips and index-slips in each copy and to add to each copy 649
new leaves.
The system of monthly incorporation of accessions, inaugurated
in April, 1915, was carried out regularly throughout the year.
Map Catalogue——1,000 titles have been written for this Cata-
logue, and 4,798 title-slips have been incorporated into each of
three copies of it. This has rendered it necessary to re-arrange
3,753 title-slips in each copy and to add to each copy 42 new
leaves.
Music Catalogue—4,771 titles have been written for this
Catalogue, and 10,529 title-slips have been incorporated into each
of two copies of it. This has rendered it necessary to re-arrange
15,020 title-slips in each copy and to add to each copy 148 new
leaves.
DEPARTMENT OF PRINTED BOOKS. 17
Shelf Catalogue-—For this Catalogue, in which the title-slips,
mounted on eards, are arranged in order of press-marks, 24,863
have been so mounted, and 25,342 have heen incorporated in their
proper order.
Catalogue of Books Printed in the X Vth Century.—Part LV. of
this Catalogue, mentioned in the last Report as having been passed
through the press, has been published. No work has been done on
the Catalogue during the year.
Ill. Binding.—The number of volumes and sets of pamphlets
sent to be bound in the course of the year was 13,805, including
3,719 volumes of newspapers. In consequence of the frequent
adoption of the plan of binding two or more volumes in one, the
number of volumes returned was 10,612. In addition, 600 volumes
have been repaired in the binders’ shops. |
Besides this, the following binding work has been done in the
Library itself :—5,073 volumes have been repaired, 7,409 cleaned
and polished, and 5,933 volumes of reports, parts of periodicals, &c.,
have been bound in a light style of binding.
The following maps, &c., have also been bound or mounted
during the year :—23 atlases and 139 volumes of the 6-inch and
25-inch Ordnance Survey have been bound ; in addition, 226 parts
of the l-inch Ordnance Survey and 259 general maps have been
mounted on linen in 1,784 sheets, and 45 maps have been mounted
on cards in 537 sheets.
41,967 numbers of Colonial Newspapers have been made up
into 1,087 parcels, and 1,080 parcels have been tied up and labelled.
Seven volumes of the General Catalogue have been broken up and
re-bound. 120 columns have been re-laid, owing to the accumulation
of titles under certain headings. 17 volumes of the Music Catalogue
have been re-bound in 20 new volumes.
IV. Reading Room Service—The number of volumes replaced in
the General Library after use in the Reading Room was 433,307 ;
in the King’s Library, 15,537; in the Grenville Library, 1,875 ; in
the Map Room, 2,678 ; in the presses in which books are kept from
day to day for the use of readers, 571,173; and in the Oriental
Department, 3,040; making a total of 1,027,610 volumes supplied
to readers during the year, exclusive of those to which the readers
have personal access on the shelves of the Reading Room.
The number of readers during the year was 134,501, giving an
average of 443 daily, the room having been open on 303 days.
Newspaper Room.—The number of readers during the year was
9,461, giving a daily average of 32, the room having been open on
303 days. The number of volumes replaced after use was 43,400,
giving a. daily average of 144, not reckoning volumes taken from
the shelves of the Newspaper Room by the readers themselves. In
addition, 1,138 country newspapers were brought up to the Library
from the Repository at Hendon for the use of readers.
B
18 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
Map Room.—142 students were admitted to the Map Room.
Photography.—There were 324 applications for leave to photo-
graph from books in the Library, and 1,045 volumes were supplied
for this purpose.
V. Accessions.— General Tipit = 20,697 complete volumes
and pamphlets have been added to the General Library during the
year. Of these, 3,184 were presented; 11,268 received by Copy-
right ; 473 by Colonial Copyright ; 1,434 by International Exchange ;
and 4,338 acquired by purchase.
54,415 parts or volumes of serial publications and of works in
progress have been added to the General Library. Of these, 2,403
were presented; 33,146 received by Copyright; 420 by Colonial
Copyright ; 2,066 by International Exchange ; and 16,380 acquired
by purchase.
Maps.—39 atlases, 28 parts of atlases, and 1,167 maps in 4,856
sheets have been added to the collection during the year. Of these,
6 atlases, 28 parts of atlases, and 729 maps were presented; 9
atlases and 399 maps received by Copyright; 13 atlases and 14
maps by Colonial Copyright; 9 atlases and 25 maps acquired by
purchase, and 2 atlases by exchange.
Music.—9,905 musical publications have been added to the
collection during the year. Of these, 8,628 books and pieces and
868 parts were received by Copyright ; 331 pieces by Colonial
Copyright ; and 2 books and 76 parts acquired by purchase.
Newspapers.—The number of newspapers published in the
United Kingdom, received under the provisions of the Copyright
Act during the year, was 3,038, comprising 207,144 single
numbers. Thirteen sets, comprising 2,123 single numbers, were
received by Colonial Copyright ; 347 sets, comprising 76,341 single
numbers, of colonial and foreign newspapers have been presented ;
and 90 sets, comprising three volumes and 14,986 single numbers,
of current colonial and foreign newspapers have been purchased.
Miscellaneous.—3,400 articles not included in the foregoing
paragraphs have been received in the Department. These consist of
Parliamentary Papers, single sheets, and other miscellaneous items.
The total number of articles enumerated above as having been
received in the Department during the year, exclusive of newspapers,
is 89,651.
Acquisitions of Special Interest—The only book of importance
acquired by purchase during the year is—
Parasitaster, or the Fawne. By John Marston. T. P. for W.C.
[T. Pavier, for W. Creede ?] 1606.
The following have been acquired by exchange :—
. Breviarium secundum morem Romane Curis. Venice, B. Pictor,
Ratdolt and Léslein, 1478.
DEPARTMENT OF PRINTED BOOKS. 19
Horarium. For the use of Utrecht. Antwerp, Adreaen van
Liesvelt, 1495.
Lichtenberger. Pronosticatio Latina. Mainz, [Jacob Mey-
denbach], 1491.
Psalterium Latinum cum ecanticis et symbolo. [ Leipzig, Moritz
Brandiss, circa 1488. |
Blaeu. Atlas. 1641-1655.
Donations.
A collection of 79 books and pamphlets, mostly printed in
England and America in the seventeenth century, forming a
portion of the Library bequeathed to the Society for the Propa-
gation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts by Bishop White Kennett.
Presented by the Society.
Archivo y Biblioteca de la Casa de Medinaceli. Vol. 1.
Presented by the Duque de Medinaceli.
Fourteen leaves completing a copy in the Museum of R. Greene’s
“ Planetomachia,” 1585. Presented by T. J. Wise, E'sq., and Prof.
Candy.
The Rape of Lucrece. By Thomas Heywood. 1608. Pre-
sented by W. A. White, Esq.
Pictures in the Collection of P. A. B. Widener. Early Italian
and Spanish Schools. Presented by P. A. B. Widener, Esq.
The Mellvill Book of Roundels. (Roxburghe Club.) Presented
by M. Tomkinson, Esq. .
Handleiding tot de Paardenkennis. Deel. 1, 2. Presented by
Captain Thomassen.
G. F. Barwick.
20 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
DEPARTMENT OF MANUSCRIPTS.
t. Cutalogue of Additions.—Sheets R, 8, containing part of
the descriptions of MSS. acquired in 1914, have been printed off
and part of Sheet T (to Additional MS. 38841) is in type.
Of other MSS. acquired in 1914, Additional 38841, 38842,
38845, 38975-38979 have been described and indexed, and the
descriptions down to 38857 revised and sent to the printer.
. Of those acquired in 1915, Additional 39180-39183, 39185,
39186, 39216-39252 have been described and indexed.
Of those acquired in 1916, Egerton MSS. 2910-2936 and
Additional MSS. 39288-39292, 39294-39298 have been described
and indexed,
2. Catalogue of Greek Papyri. Vol. V.—Sheets Ll-3 B,
completing the descriptions and indices, have been passed through
the press, and the introductory matter sent to the printer. |
3. Catalogue of the Royal and King’s MSS.—Sheets C-1 of
Vol. III. have been printed off and Sheet K, completing the
descriptions, is in type. The revision of the general index is in
progress and the introduction in preparation.
4. Catalogue of Cotton MSS.—The MSS. Caligula E. IIL, IV.
have been indexed.
5. Catalogue of Karly Additional and Egerton MSS.—Additional
MSS. 4500-4756, excepting a few Oriental MSS. and Nos. 4576-
4695 (Rymer’s collections, &e.) reserved for further consideration,
have been described and indexed.
6. Voluntary assistance.—The department is indebted to
Sir George Warner for much assistance in the revision of the
description of the King’s MSS. for the new catalogue, and to
Mr. Edward Alexander Fry for help in sorting the Dunkin
collection. :
7. Binding.—80 Additional and 37 Egerton MSS. newly
acquired and 105 MSS. of the old collections have been bound,
repaired or lettered, together with 180 Rolls or Charters and 65
Books of Reference, Facsimiles or Catalogues.
8. Verification.—The entire collection of MSS. has been
verified by comparison with the Shelf-lists.
9. Stamping, folioing and placing.—136 Additional MSS., 37
Egerton MSS., and 101 Books of Reference have been stamped.
The total of impressions made was 7,003.
154 MSS. have been folioed, with a total of 25,081 folios.
15,196 sheets, &c., have been numbered.
166 newly acquired MSS. have been placed and 61 MSS. of the
old collections replaced. AII have been press-marked and entered
in Hand- and Shelf-lists. 10 seals and casts have been provided
with boxes, placed and entered in Hand- and Drawer-lists.
DEPARTMENT OF MANUSCRIPTS. yea
10. Books of Reference.—82 volumes and parts have been
received, catalogued and placed.
9 volumes and parts of Facsimiles were added to the series
now deposited in the Department and available for the use of
Readers.
11. Consultation of MSS.—14,777 MSS. and 3,813 Charters
and Seals have been consultedin the Students’ Room, and 37 MSS.
in the Reading Room. The number of Students was 5,713. In
addition 2,567 Oriental MSS. have been consulted in the Students’
Room by 817 Students.
12. MSS. photographed. —272 *MSS8. (including Papyri,
Charters, and Seals) were allowed to be photographed, with a
total of 4,676 photographs taken.
13. “Acquisitions —The number of Manuscripts and Documents,
&c., acquired during the year has been :—
Additional MSS. = = = 2 : 2 Ee 0d
Hgerton MSS. a = 2 2 E e easy
Charters and Rolls - = 2 = é = awe)
Detached Seals and Casts - - - 2 = - 56
This enumeration does not include the Dunkin Collection, the
arrangement of which is not completed, but includes 17 volumes
transferred from other Departments.
With one small exception (a continuation of Mr. Downman’s
plans of ancient earthworks) the Department has been entirely
dependent this year on the generosity of private donors or on
funds for purchase accruing from private bequests. The more
seortant additions are :—
Three holograph letters of Dr. Johnson relating to the King’s
library. Presented by Lady Wernher, who purchased them at the
Red Cross Sale.
Biographical and Topographical collections of the late H. H. W.
Dunkin, Esq., relating to the Sussex clergy, &. Presented by
Mrs. Dinan
Collections for the history of co. Clare by the late R. W. Twigge,
Hsq., 10 volumes, besides rolls, &e. Presented by Mrs. Twigge.
Transcripts of momen inscriptions in co. Hertford, by
W. B. Gerish, Esq., 14 volumes. Presented by the compiler.
Autograph draft of part of Bishop Berkeley’s works, corres-
pondence of his family, &., 13 volumes. Presented by Mrs. Rose.
The Granville collection of scores by Handel in 37 volumes.
Miracles of Our Lady, 12th cent.
Latin Poems of Robert Partes, a Reading monk, 12th cent.
Court-book of Rayleigh, co. Hissex, 1553-1606.
Autograph letters (4) of 8. L. Clemens (Mark Twain).
These five purchased from the Farnborough fund.
Julius P. Gilson.
22 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
DEPARTMENT OF ORIENTAL PRINTED Books anp MSS.
Cataloguing.—The numbers of Titles written for the Catalogues
are :—Arabic, 83 ; Armenian, 24; Assamese, 16; Avestan, 17 ;
Bengali, 514 ; Bodo, 2; Burmese, 150; Chakma, 3; Chin, 16 ;
Chinese, 124; Ethiopic, 4; Gujarati, 497; Hebrew, 16 ; Hindi,
514 ; Hindustani, 231 ; Ho, 2; Javanese, 6 ; Kachin, 9 ; Kanarese,
227 ; Kanawari, 3; Karen, 6 ; Kashmiri, 27 ; Khond, 3 ; Kurku,
2; Lepcha, 1; Lisu, 2; Lushai,5; Malayalam, 59 ; Marathi, 346 ;
Naga, 7; Nagpuria, 6; Oriya, 7; Pahlavi, 2; Pali, 113 ; Panjabi,
45; Persian, 332; Prakrit, 60; Sanskrit, 731; Siamese, 20 ;
Sindhi, 92 ; Sinhalese, 40 ; Talaing, 2; Tamil, 859 ; Telugu, 607 ;
Turkish, 15; Uigur, 6. Total, 5,851.
11 Tata Charters have been fully catalogued.
11 short descriptions of MSS. have been entered in the Desktap line
List, the Register, and the Classed Inventory.
9 MSS (1,119 folios) have been folioed.
Binding.—The numbers of Printed Books and MSS. sent to the
Binders are :—Arabic, Persian, and Hindustani Books, 84 ; Chinese
and Japanese Books, 2; Ethiopic and Syriac Books, 3; Malay
Books, 9; Books in Sanskrit and other Indian languages, 165 ;
MBS., 24.
Students.—The number of visits of Students working upon
Oriental MSS. in the Students’ Room attached to the Department
of Manuscripts during the year has been 817. The number of
Oriental MSS. consulted by them was 2,567. The number of
Oriental Printed Books used in the Reading Room was 3,040.
Photography.—31 applications have been made to photogr@ph
books and MSS. in this Department.
Additions.—The number of volumes, pamphlets, &c., added to
the collections of the Department during the year is 2,037. Of
these 2,026 are Printed Books, and 11 are MSS.
Of the Printed Books, 94 were bought ; 1,763 were received
under the India Copyright Act; 62 were received under the
Colonial Copyright Acts from Ceylon and Hongkong ; and 107
were presented. Of the MSS., 9 were presented, 1 was bought, and
1 was found in the binding of a book belonging to the Department.
The MSS. are as follows :—
Batta - mesh. = - - - -
Chinese’ - - - - - -
Hebrew - - - - - -
Pali and Sidulnce - - = =
Persian - - - - - -
Sanskrit - | - ~ - - -
Sanskrit and Gujarati - - - -
Sanskrit and Hindi °- - - -
See OOH ee bo
|
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—
DEPARTMENT OF ORIENTAL PRINTED BOOKS AND Mss. - 23
The most important acquisitions are :
Batta MSS.—A Batta Calendar of comparative dates for a
number of years from 1720 a.p. onwards ; together with a large
number of epistles extracted from the original binding of the
calendar. Presented by Miss EL. G. Wren.
Persian MSS.—1. Ta’rikh i Sighari, an account of Khokand
and its rulers during the first half of the 18th century. Copied
MeoeeL IG) (A.D. 1748). 8°. Presented by Sir Henry H. Howorth,
neo. E,
2. Part (about half) of Kazvini’s ‘Aja’ib ul-makhlikat, with
some good Indian drawings in colour. 18th cent. 8°. Presented
by Sir Henry H. Howorth, K.C.LE.
3. A large collection of the poems, with some prose works, of
Sardar Ghulam Muhammad Khan Durrani, called Tarzi, a modern
Afghan writer. Copied a.H. 1305 (4.p. 1887). 8°.
L. D. Barnett.
24 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
DEPARTMENT OF PRINTS AND DRAWINGS.
I.—Arrangement and Cataloguing, &c.
Arrangement.—1,150 English portraits recently acquired have
been distributed according to periods and classes.
2,699 other prints and drawings recently acquired have been
incorporated with the divisions of the collection to which they
severally belong.
36 books of drawings and prints have been placed.
The unfinished proofs by English engravers, formerly kept
apart, have been incorporated with the engravers’ works, and the
large prints by Hnglish engravers have been rearranged.
A new series of solanders containing the mounted work of
modern etchers and lithographers is in course of arrangement.
A large number of solanders, portfolios, and books containing
drawings and prints of special value have been removed for greater
safety to a strong room in the basement.
All books of prints and books of reference recently acquired
have been catalogued, labelled, and placed.
Catalogues and Indexes——The new card index to books of
reference has been nearly completed.
The index to periodicals has been brought up to date.
The new references to case, shelf, and numiber have been inserted
all through the index to the books of prints.
The new references to cases and books have been inserted in the
indexes of artists of the Spanish, Russian, Scandinavian and American
schools, and in the index of Foreign Artists working in England ;
in the case of the Italian school all new references have been inserted
except those relating to books.
The artists represented in the collection of woodcuts by the
Brothers Dalziel have been indexed as far as vol. 13.
117 references to drawings by Dutch and Flemish artists in the
Malcolm collection have been inserted in the index of artists of
these schools.
The work of indexing foreign portraits contained in books of
prints has been continued. A complete list has been made of all
such portraits ; references to them have been added on the slips
made for the general-portrait collection, and new slips have been
written for all names occurring only in the books of prints. More
detailed slips have also been written for all these portraits with a
view to incorporation in a future printed catalogue of the foreign
portraits.
Eaxhibition.—No alterations in the exhibition were made during
the first two months of the year. On March 1st the gallery was
closed, and all prints and drawings were removed from the wall
cases, screens and slopes.
i ee
DEPARTMENT OF PRINTS AND DRAWINGS. 25
Registration.—1,063 items have been entered in the Register of
Acquisitions.
Stamping and Mounting.—5,047 drawings, prints, &e., recently
acquired, have been impressed with the a stamp and
references to the Register.
1,338 prints from the Montague Guest Collection have been
impressed with a special stamp.
The work of stamping the foreign book-plates in the Franks
Collection has been continued.
The whole of the German drawings in the Malcolm Collection
have been mounted.
28 drawings, recently acquired, have heen prepared and mounted
on sunk mounts ; 53 woodcuts by Burgkmair and 16 other early
engravings and woodcuts have been mounted ; 48 mezzotints from
the Cheylesmore Collection and 3 mezzotints printed in colours by
Le Blon have been mounted on sunk mounts.
The following modern prints have been mounted, in addition to
smaller numbers by other artists :—D. Y. Cameron, 59 etchings ;
K. Cameron, 12 etchings ; C. Conder, 39 lithographs ; Eric Gull,
12 woodeuts; Seymour Haden, 270 etchings and mezzotints ;
E. S. Lumsden, 48 etchings; J. F. Millet, 23 etchings; G.
Raverat, 14 woodcuts ; C. H. Shannon, 84 lithographs ; W. Strang,
102 etchings ; F. 8. Unwin, 13 etchings.
19 drawings by H. W. Cooke, 20 drawings by J. Webster, 143
drawings by Sir. J. Wyatville, 46 drawings by Parkinson, 131
anonymous drawings, 110 woodcuts by Tenniel, and 303 woodcuts
by Whymper, have been mounted in albums.
414 book-plates have been mounted on paper mounts.
All the above have been lettered with the artists’ names and
references to the Register and to catalogues.
Numerous prints, drawings, and mounts have been cleaned.
Students.—The total number of visitors admitted to the Print
Room during the year ended December 31st, 1916, was 2,063 ; of
these admissions 1,234 were previous to the closing of the Museum
to the public on March Ist.
Photographing.—176 applications were made for leave to
photograph, and 634 photographs were taken.
Il.— Acquisitions.
The total number of prints, drawings, books, &c., acquired
during the year was 1,140, of which the following are the most
important :—
IraLfan SCHOOL.
Drawing.
Cardi, L. (Il Cigoli). The facade of St. Peter's, and two
cartouches ; pen and sepia. Presented by Sir EF. J. Poynter, Bart.,
ee oh.A ;
26 ACOBUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
GERMAN SCHOOL.
Drawings.
Breu, Jorg (I.) The Calumny of Apelles ; pen and ink version
of the original drawing by Mantegna in the Department. The
immediate original of Breu’s free copy is the engraving by Mocetto,
in which the church of SS. Giovanni and Paolo and the equestrian
statue of Colleoni are introduced ‘in the background. Presented by
Sir E. J. Poynter, Bart., P.R.A.
Hrmels, J. F. Classical landscape ; pen and Indian ink wash.
Presented by John Lane, Esq. ‘
Woodcuts.
Anonymous, 15th century. The relics and insignia of the Holy
Roman Empire ; undescribed. Presented by Senhor G. de Vianna
Kelsch.
Anonymous, 16th century. A woman with a monstrous
deformity of the stomach; broadside with text and coloured
woodcut.
Schiufelein, H. L. The Siege of Bethulia. Presented by
Major Howard.
Springinklee, Hans. St. John, from a rare set of the Apostles
(1520-21).
SCHOOLS OF THE NETHERLANDS.
Drawings.
Raemaekers, L. Jackals in the political field ; Ferdinand the
Chameleon. Presented by A. H. Anderson, Esq. The third German
war loan. Presented by W. Tinker, Esq. War cartoons ; black
chalk and water-colour.
Etchings.
Gheyn, J. de (II.) Five of the series of Seven Sages of Greece
(1616). Presented by Campbell Dodgson, Esq.
Bruycker, Jules de. The Death Knell in Flanders ; Kultur.
Presented by J. de Graaf’, Esq.
Maris, Matthijs. Original plate of the etching, Girl under a
tree. Presented by G. Reid, Esq.
Poortenaar, Jan. Nine original etchings (views in Amsterdam
and London, tiger-lilies). Presented by J. de Graaf, Esq.
Lithographs.
Poortenaar, Jan. Nine original lithographs (views in Amsterdam
and Newcastle, sunflowers). Presented by J. de Graaff, Esq.
Woodcut.
Anonymous, early 16th cent. Soldiers ; fragment of a very rare
set, of which other specimens exist at Berlin, Vienna, and Oxford.
Presented by Mr. C. Aymes.
DEPARTMENT OF PRINTS AND DRAWINGS. 27
FRENCH SCHOOL.
Drawings.
Natoire, C.J. Nude study ; black and white chalk. Presented
by E. Peter Jones, Esq.
Noé, A. C. H. de (“Cham”). The enthusiastic . collector.
Water colours. Presented by A. E. Anderson, Esq.
Engravings.
Moitte, P. E. Le Confessional, after P. A. Baudoin ; first state.
Presented by Campbell Dodgson, sq.
Etchings.
Buhot, F. Three etchings (Bourcard 541,61 1,73). Presented
by S. Vacher, Esq.
Guérard, H. Four etchings. Presented by S. Vacher, Esq.
Jou, Louis. Belgique, 1914; L’Hxode. Presented by Mons.
Hug. Rodrigues.
Lnthographs.
Doré, G. Three original lithographs. Presented by E. E.
Leggatt, [sq.
Fantin-Latour,H. Andromede. Presented by Campbell Dodg-
son, sq.
Grevedon, H. La Duchesse de Berry, after Lawrence ; proof.
Presented by Campbell Dodgson, Esq.
Poster.
Forain, J. L. Le Prisonnier. Presented by Dr. Michael
Sadler, C.B.
SCANDINAVIAN ScHOOLS.
Drawings.
Thorwaldsen, B. Pan and a young faun; three mythological
subjects ; pen and ink. Presented by Campbell Dodgson, Iésq.
| Etchings.
Annual publication of Foreningen for Grafisk Konst, 1915 (four
etchings and one lithograph). Presented by Campbell Dodgson, Esq.
AMERICAN SCHOOL.
Engraving.
Cole, Timothy. ‘“ Primavera,” after Botticelli. Unique proof
of an experiment by a special process of intaglio engraving on ~
wood; printed from an electrotype. Presented by C. Fairfax
Murray, Esq.
28 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
Etching.
Whistler, J. A. McN. Title-page for the French set, 1858 ;
from a rejected and unpublished plate ; undescribed and probably
unique. Presented by Dennis Day. Esq.
Lithographs.
Brown, Bolton. ‘Twenty-eight original lithographs ; figures,
landscape, &e. Presented by the Artist.
Whistler, J. A. MeN. Study of Thomas Way, a variant
(undescribed) of Way, Nos. 107, 108 ; unpublished and cancelled.
Presented by H. J. Wright, Esq.
Forricn Artists RESIDENT IN ENGLAND.
Drawings.
Fuseli, H., R.A. Two life studies; pen and ink and water-
colours. Presented by E. Peter Jones, Esq.
Etchings.
Lund, N. M. Eight original landscapes, views in the High-
lands and the South of England. Presented by A. H. Anderson,
Fisq., Mrs. Lund, and Campbell Dodgson, Esq.
Woodcuts.
Kristian, Roald. Animals ; proofs of three original woodcuts
published in Form, Presented by the Artist.
British SCHOOL.
Drawings.
Burnet, J. Looking at a horse’s mouth ; pen and ink. Pre-
sented by Campbell Dodgson, Hsq.
Gethin, P. F. View near Lisdoonvarna ; water colours. The
City of Cashel ; water colours. Irish landscape ; water colours.
Gerona; water colours. Study for an etching . of Chancellor
Dowdall ; pen and ink and wash. Two girls’ heads ; black, red,
and white chalks. Five studies of Irish girls; water colours and
chalk. Presented by Mrs. Gethin and Captain Gethin. A County
Mayo town on Market Day; water colours. Presented by Miss
I. P. McGhee.
Arthur Hughes. Design for “April Love”; pen and ink.
Presented by J. P. Heseltine, Esq. Two designs for ‘La Belle
Dame sans merci’ ; pen and ink. Presented by Dr. Michael Sadler,
C.B.. “Home from Work”; pen and ink. Presented by Mrs.
F. Dodd.
Lewis, J. F., R.A. A Turkish interior ; chalk and water-
colour sketch. Presented by the National Art-Collections Fund.
DEPARTMENT OF PRINTS AND DRAWINGS. 29
Robertson, G. Landscape with the journey to Emmaus ; water
colours. Two oval landscapes with cattle and sheep (1775), from
the collection of James Moore, F.S.A.; water colours. Presented
by Campbell Dodgson, Esq.
Tenniel, Sir J. Two Punch cartoons: ‘The Learned Welsh
Goat,” 1895 ; ‘Good Dog!”? 1895; pencil. Presented by Campbell
Dodgson, Esq.
Walker, F. S. Water-lilies ; study for a wood engraving ; Indian
ink wash, brightened with white. Presented by the Artist.
Engravings.
Chapman, J. Watkins. Six unpublished proof mezzotints, after
Greuze, Romney, &. Presented by E. E. Leggatt, Esq.
Srawford, LT. Hamilton. Sixteen proof mezzotints, chiefly
portraits (Duchess of Abercorn, after H. Draper, Duke and Duchess
of Northumberland, after Sir H. J. Poynter, P.R.A., H. L. Bischoffs-
heim and Martin R. Smith, after Sir H. Von Herkomer, R.A.,
Edward Caird, Dr. J. Clifford, and Sir John Bland-Sutton, after
the Hon. John Collier, &). Presented by the Artist.
Medland, Thomas. The Panshanger Oak. Presented by HE. E.
Leggatt, Esq.
Smith, J. R. The Hurdy-Gurdy Player, after George Carter,
1775, rare and undescribed. Presented by Campbell Dodgson, Esq.
Etchings.
Airy, Anna. The Cast of Dice. Five etchings of flowers and
leaves. Presented by the Artist.
Barker, Anthony R. The First Italian Portfolio (12 plates,
1912). Presented by Campbell Dodgson, Esq.
Baskett,C. H. Five aquatint landscapes. Presented by Messrs.
P.and LD. Colnaght and Obach.
Cameron, D. Y., A.R.A. The Royal Scottish Academy, and
others, chiefly bookplates. Presented by James MacLehose, Esq.,
Miss K: Cameron, and others.
Dawson, Nelson. Arms of Winchester College and Stamford
Grammar School. Soft ground, coloured. Presented by Campbell
Dodgson, Esq.
Dodd, Francis. Verona. Greenwich. Portraits of J. Craig Annan,
W. Burton, J. Hamilton Hay, A. L. Smith, and H. Rushbury ;
dry-points. Presented by the Artist.
Exley, J. R. G. Seven etchings of fowls; three landscapes.
Presented by the Artist and by Miss E. P. McGhee.
Fisher, A. Hugh. Nine etchings of landscape and architecture.
Presented by the Artist and by Campbell Dodgson, Esq.
Geddes, A. Three states of portrait etchings. Presented by
i. K. Blar, sq. ;
Gethin, P. F. Portrait of Chancellor Dowdall. Presented by
Chancellor Dowdall, K.C.
Hay, J. Hamilton. The Encased Statue, British Museum
Presented by Campbell Dodgson, Esq.
30 . ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
Holroyd, Sir Charles. Hve and the Serpent. Presented by the
Artist.
James, Hon. Walter. The Ilex. Pegwell Bay. Presented by
Miss E. P. McGhee.
Ray-Jones, R. Portrait of the Artist. Presented by the Artist.
Strang, D. R. Breton Landscape.’ Presented by the Artist.
Strang, W., A.R.A. Mealtime. Joan of Arc. Dr. Garnett.
Presented by Campbell Dodgson, Esq.
Unwin, F.S. Twelve etchings of landscape and architecture.
Presented by the Artist.
Urwick, W.H. Ten landscape etchings and aquatints. Presented
by Douglas R. Urwick, Esq.
Watson, C. J. La Chapelle, Rue. Presented by Miss E. P.
McGhee.
Lathographs.
Blatherwick, L. Spider’s web. Presented by the Artist.
Conder, C. Lucien and Hsther ; second state. Presented by
Campbell Dodgson, Esq.
Gethin, P. F. A girl’s head. The Chef. Presented by F. V.
Burridge, Esq.
Hartrick, A.S. The Man on the Hill. Presented by Campbell
Dodgson, Esq.
Shannon, C.H., A.R.A. Five lithographs (Derry, Nos. 79-83).
Presented by the Artist.
- Woodcuts.
Anonymous, 16th cent. Allegorical subject of anti-papal
tendency. Presented by Campbell Dodgson, Esq.
Gill, Eric. Sixteen proof woodcuts and a book of emblems.
Presented by Campbell Dodgson, Esq.
Raverat, G. The Prodigal Son, and two landscapes. Presented
by the Artist.
Metal Cuts Printed in Colours.
Giles, W. The Last Glow, Central Corsica ; printed from eight
zinc blocks. Presented by the Artist.
Shrimpton-Giles, A. M. Norcia, early Spring ; printed from
six zine blocks. Presented by the Artist.
Prints arranged to illustrate the Works of Masters.
Sir E. Landseer, R.A. A Member of the Royal Humane Society,
engraved by Thomas Landseer ; proof touched by Sir Edwin
Landseer. Presented by KH. E. Leggatt, Esq.
PorRTRAITS.
Of the 90 English and 42 foreign portraits acquired during the
year, none call for special mention except a collection of 20
portraits of W. Harvey, M.D. Presented by Sidney H. Badcock, Esq.
DEPARTMENT OF PRINTS AND DRAWINGS. on
BooK-PLATES.
26 by A. J. Downey. Presented by the Artist.
12 by G. W. Eve. Presented by G. H. Viner, Esq., and others.
45 by W. F. Hopson. Presented by the Artist and by G. H.
Viner, Esq.
7 by 8. L. Smith. Presented by G. H. Viner, Esq., and others.
17 by C. A. Voysey. Presented by the Artist.
44 miscellaneous. Presented by various donors.
COLLECTIONS AND SETs.
34 lithographic war cartoons by W. Sluiter, Jan Sluyters, and
P. Vanderhem, from De Nieuwe Amsterdammer, 1915-16. Presented
by H. Van den Bergh, Esq.
37 French lithographic music covers of the 19th cent. Presented
by Captain A. M. Hind, A.S.C.
Campbell Dodgson.
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32 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
Sup-DEPARTMENT OF ORIENTAL PRINTS AND DRAWINGS.
Il.—Arrangement and Cataloguing, &e.
Immediately after the closing of the Museum in March all the
Chinese and Japanese Paintings exhibited in the Gallery were
removed. A selection of all the most valuable items in the collections
were transferred to the strdng room allotted to the Department.
The Catalogue of Chinese Woodeuts has been completed and
printed as a supplement to the Catalogue of Japanese Woodcuts.
The whole work has been printed off, with the illustrations, and is in
process of being bound.
The preparation of a Catalogue of the Japanese Illustrated Books
in the Sub-Department has been begun. The greater part of the
catalogue has been written in a form which it is intended to
amplify later with translations of the more important prefaces and
other detail.
The Index of Japanese Artists has been revised.
The preparation of material for a future Catalogue of Chinese
Paintings has been set on foot. Translations have been made of
passages in Chinese books relative to pictures in the collection ; also
of all poems and other inscriptions on paintings in the Wegener
Collection.
The ‘“‘ Kokka”’ Magazine has been indexed up to date.
All books of prints and books of reference have been labelled,
placed, and catalogued.
653 prints, paintings, &c., recently acquired, have been incor-
porated with the divisions of the collection to which they severally
belong.
Registration.—120 items have been entered in the Regeln of
_ Acquisitions.
Stamping and Mounting.—1,462 prints, paintings, &c., recently
acquired, have been impressed with the departmental stamp and
references to the Register.
15 Japanese paintings have been mounted, one as a kakemono.
2 Chinese paintings have been mounted as kakemono, and 2
others backed with silk.
6 Indian paintings have been mounted on sunk mounts.
421 Japanese prints (including 55 “triptychs” and 6 five-
sheet prints) have been mounted on sunk mounts. 82 of these have
been specially cleaned and repaired. All have been lettered with
the artists’ names and references to the Register and to the
Catalogue.
IL.— Acquisitions.
The total number of paintings, prints, &c., acquired during the
year was 225, of which the following are the most important :—
pe 5 Da nS
SUB-DEPARTMENT OF ORIENTAL PRINTS AND DRAWINGS. 33
CHINESE.
Engravings.
A set of line-engravings of palaces. Presented by the Dowager
Viscountess Wolseley.
JAPANESE.
Painting.
Tosa School. ‘*Ippen Shonin Monogatari” ; makimono, in ink
and colours. Presented by Oscar Raphael, Esq., and H. P. and
Hl. D. Waley, Esqs.
Woodcuts.
A set of theatre-programmes, and games. Presented by W.
Bateson, Esq., F.R.S.
INDIAN.
Painting.
Kashmir School. ‘Teaching a Moslem how to Shoot;” in
colour. Presented by Ernest Debenham, Esq.
TIBETAN.
Painting.
Magic Circle, with figures of divinities ; in colours, on silk.
Presented by A. L. Hall, Esq.
Books oF PRINTS AND Books OF REFERENCE.
Ajanta Frescoes.
Catalogue of the Li Wen-ch’ing Collection. Presented by
Charles L. Freer, Esq.
Coomaraswamy, A. K. Rajput Painting. 2 vols. Presented
by Laurence Binyon, Esq.
Laurence Binyon.
34 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
DEPARTMENT OF HGYPTIAN AND ASSYRIAN ANTIQUITIES.
I.—Arrangement, Cataloguing, &§c.
EGyrtian ANTIQUITIES :—
The removal of portions of the collections to places protected
against hostile air-craft has been continued.
The objects acquired during the year have been cleaned, repaired
(when necessary) and mounted in readiness for exhibition im. due
course.
The labelling of the collections has been continued. 22 labels
have been written and painted, and 25 numbers have been painted
on plinths, and broken letters and numbers have been repaired.
12 objects have been mounted on stone plinths, one stele has
been repaired, several stele have been cleaned, 9 pedestals, 5 labels,
and several small mounts have been made.
A large selection of autotype reproductions of the principal royal
mummies from Dér al-Bahari has been mounted in four frames for
exhibition, and each autotype has been labelled.
The Coptic stele from the Egyptian Gallery have been removed
to a room in the Second Northern Gallery, and the arrangement of
a Coptic Room has been begun.
The casts of the sarcophagi of Tabnith and Eshmtinazar have been
repaired and painted, and inscriptions picked out in a lighter colour.
The Hebrew gravestones from Aden have been cleaned, remounted,
and removed upstairs.
The miscellaneous collections and fragments in the Basement
have been examined, and a number of objects selected for mounting
and exhibition.
The Wall-cases on the North-West Staircase Landing have been
re-arranged, and a number of recently acquired objects have been
placed in them.
The busts, figures, terra-cottas, inscriptions, &c., from Cyprus
have been transferred to the Greek and Roman Department, and the
cases which held them have been re-fitted, and filled with Phoenician
Inscriptions, &e.
The Semitic Inscriptions have been re-arranged in the First and
Second Rooms in the Second Northern Gallery. The First Room
contains the inscriptions in the Northern Semitic dialects (Pheenician,
Hebrew, &c.), and the Second Room contains those in Southern
dialects (Himyaritic, Arabic, &c.). The antiquities from Carthage
have also been grouped.
ASSYRIAN ANTIQUITIES :
4,746 tablets have been numbered, 48 trays have been numbered,
1,992 tablets have been boxed, slip numbers have been affixed to 296
boxes of tablets, 12 labels have been written, 2 tablets have been
repaired, the reference numbers to the collections have been continued,
and 78 tablets have been catalogued.
DEPARTMENT OF EGYPTIAN AND ASSYRIAN ANTIQUITIES. 35
Students.—About 500 visits have been made to the Department
by enquirers, and 333 objects have been issued for the use of
students.
I1.— Acquisitions.
A collection of Coptic monuments from the ruins of a church at
Edfa and the Monastery of St. Jeremiah, to the south of Cairo :—
. A Coptic stele with crosses and pediment in relief.
. Coptic sepulchral inscription of Theodore and others.
. Decorated stele with panels, arch, &c.
. Stele of Theodore, with Greek inscription and Coptic
decoration.
. Stele of the lady Tsamma, with Cross in relief, on which is
cut the name of Apa Psate.
6. Memorial stele of Apa Horp, Herem, and others.
7. Memorial stele of Phoibammén, Apa Serene, and others.
8. Stele of one John, a monk (?).
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9-13. Five sepulchral stele, richly decorated with sculptures in
relief.
III.—Presents.
ik 1-38. Thirty-eight figures of Egyptian gods and sacred
animals.
39-58. Twenty hard stone and porcelain amulets.
59, 60. Two plaques of Isis, Horus, and Nephthys.
61-150. Ninety scarabs, chiefly of the XVIIIth dynasty.
151-159. Nine stone scarabs, uninscribed.
160-164. Five scarabs in rings.
165, 166. Two beads for inlaying ; very fine work.
166-170. Five rectangular steatite plaques.
171-177. Seven miscellaneous objects.
178. String of beads.
179. Necklace of flat circular beads.
180. Blue glazed ware vase of Rameses III.
181. Ivory figure for inlaying.
182-190. Nine rings and other objects.
191-193. Three Gnostic gems.
Bequeathed by the late Rev. W. F. Rose, M.A.
II. A large earthenware Egyptian jar, Greeco-Roman Period.
Presented by Lady Watson.
III. Scarab of Rameses II.
Presented by Lieut.-Col. EH. Mansel Sympson, M.A., M.D.,
HSA,
EH. A. Wallis Budge.
36 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
DEPARTMENT OF GREEK AND ROMAN ANTIQUITIES.
I.—Arrangement, &c.
On the closing of the Museum, in March, further measures were
taken for the protection of the collections from attack. Many
objects were removed from the galleries to places of greater safety,
or were put in safer positions in situ.
While the cases were thus empty, the dust-intercepting velvet
puffings were renewed in the upper galleries, the cases of the Room
of Ancient Life, and four blocks of cases in the Third Vase Room
were repainted. A rearrangement of the frescoes in the Gold
Ornament Room was undertaken ; 21 of the locks were modified to
the Departmental suite ; the sculptures of Cyprus were transferred
from the Department of Egyptian Antiquities, and their arrange-
ment was begun. A rearrangement of the Hall of Inscriptions is in
progress. The arrangement of Slabs I.— XIII. of the North Frieze
of the Parthenon has been revised.
The publication of the Greek Inscriptions has been completed
with the issue of Vol. IV., Part 2, which includes Indices to the
whole collection. Progress was made with the Catalogue of Silver
Plate, and with full labels for the Hall of Inscriptions.
Moulds have been made of six slabs of the Phigaleian frieze ; of
the Blacas Asclepios, the bust of Trajan, the relief of a warrior
from Rhodes, and the Towneley bronze Heracles. Twenty-seven
pieces of sculpture and 41 Greek and Latin inscriptions haye been
cleaned, repaired, and mounted. The mosaic from Vienne (Isere)
has been laid on the floor in the Greco-Roman basement, and
surrounded with a marble curbing. A wooden pedestal, and a
box for large negatives were made; 15 vases were cleaned
and repaired ; 68 labels were written, and the Greek inscriptions
were numbered according to Vol. IV., Part 2; 73 objects were
registered.
The number of visits to the Departmental Library for the
purpose of research was 322; there were 195 other visits to the
Staff for enquiry or on departmental business. 249 attendances
of students of art and architecture were made in the Sculpture
Galleries during the months of January and February.
Il.— Acquisitions.
I.—Marble.
1. Fragment of marble kymation with lion’s head spout. From
an unrecorded site in the Mediterranean. Obtained by the late Capt.
F. D. Lyon and presented by Mrs. Lyon.
II.— Bronze.
1. A portion of the collection formed by the late Lord Avebury,
including :—
11 Fibule.
6 Spear heads.
DEPARTMENT OF GREEK AND ROMAN ANTIQUITIES. a7
Arrow head.
Celts.
Sword blade.
“Tanged”’ dagger from Cyprus.
Mirror.
Armlet (?)
‘* Mace heads.”
Presented (together with the collection in the Department of
British and Medieval Antiquities) by Lord Avebury.
2. Bell from Perugia. Presented by the Rev. C. H. Goddard.
III.— Vases.
1. Jug of Dipylon geometric ware, decorated with meanders,
chequers, and other ornaments. Two nude figures, on square seats,
are seen on either side of an uncertain object, a table, tomb, or altar.
2. Similar jug, with subjects of Cretan goats.
1-2 found near Athens.
Presented by Sir H. H. Howorth, K.C.I.E., through the National
Art-Collections Fund.
1 V— Cast.
1. Cast of the mask of the Leconfield Aphrodite. Presented by
Mrs. S. A. Strong.
V.—Manuscripts.
Six field note-books, used by the late R. P. Pullan during the
excavations at Priene, Teos and the Smintheum. (Cf. Antiquities of
Toma, v., p. 25.) Presented by the Society of Dilettanti.
A. H. Smith.
He et rs
38 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
DEPARTMENT OF BRITISH AND MrEpIavaL ANTIQUITIES AND
ETHNOGRAPHY.
1.—Arrangement, Cataloguing, &c.
Prehistoric Room.—Three more wall-cases in the iron gallery
have been cleared, painted and rearranged ; and the contents of one
removed to the south wing. Two wall-cases below have been painted
and refitted for antiquities discovered in barrows, and the cup-and-
ring stones have been placed in the lower part of these cases.
Central Saloon.—tThe series of bronze celts have been exhibited
according to counties, and the bronze bucket from Heathery Burn
placed above the other antiquities from that site in a wall-case.
Two wall-cases have been painted, and filled respectively with Bronze
Age specimens from Wales, and a type series from England. The
doors of a pier-case have ,been relined. A number of flint imple-
ments, not hitherto exhibited, have been mounted and placed in
drawers accessible to the public, in the south wing.
Tron Age Gallery—Labelling has been continued, and the Hall-
statt series, collected by the late Lord Avebury, has been mounted
and exhibited at the west end. Additions have also been made to the
British pottery section, and a series from Glastonbury marsh-village
incorporated.
Roman Britain.—The arrangement of this new room is prac-
tically complete, and progress has been made with labelling. A
large quantity of pottery removed from the basement has been
cleaned and incorporated, and the Ransom collection of pottery
added. Two amphore have been restored, and shelves and other
fittings prepared and fixed. Turned wood models of two bronze
bowls have been provided.
King Edward VII. Gallery (Ground floor).—The transfer of .
the ceramic, glass and medieval collections to this gallery has been
completed, and fittings prepared for most of the pier-cases in the
western half. Several cases have been cleared for strengthening
the sash-bars of the brackets ; various enamels and keys have been
exhibited in a desk-case, and the Wedgwood plaques replaced. on
screens. One table-case has been lined with cloth, and several have
been newly arranged. The seal matrices with impressions have
been placed in exhibition drawers, accessible to the public.
Christian Room.—The collection of Early Christian antiquities
has been transferred to new wall-cases, and fittings provided.
Progress has been made with the rearrangement.
Buddhist Room.—The arrangement of the collection in new
wall-cases is nearly complete, and a large number of labels and
plinths have been provided. Many large carvings not previously
exhibited are now included.
BRITISH AND MEDIZAVAL ANTIQUITIES. 39
Brahman Room.—The arrangement and labelling in new wall-
cases have been completed, and several important Hindu carvings not
previously exhibited have been mounted inside and outside the cases.
Asiatic Saloon.—The remainder of the porcelain has been
transferred to King Edward VII. Gallery, to make room for
exhibits of Oriental art, including the armour recently deposited
on loan from the Tower Armoury. Accommodation is also provided
for the Stein collection from Chinese Turkestan.
Exhibition of Plaquettes—The collection of Italian plaquettes
presented by Whitcombe Greene, Esq., has been mounted in
desk-cases in what was formerly the Anglo-Saxon room; and
plaquettes and similar objects from the medizval collection have
also been transferred for a temporary exhibition.
Registration.—The registration of current acquisitions has been
continued, and 1,569 objects have been added. Numbers have been
painted on 1,361 specimens, and 625 permanent labels written.
Objects have been mounted to the number of 1,479; 41
photographs and 15 lantern-slides have been prepared, and 426
type-written labels bordered. 20 Roman vases have been repaired,
and the negatives of the Waddesdon collection numbered and
identified.
The arrangement of the collections illustrating Oriental religions
has been greatly facilitated by the assistance of Mr. Longworth
Dames, and Mr. Oscar Raphael has given much time to the
arrangement of the Ceramic collections. The services of these
two gentlemen, when the staff is reduced to a minimum, deserve
special acknowledgment.
Students. —746 students and visitors have been received in the
Department.
2.—Principal Acquisitions.
(1.) Prehistoric and Early British Antiquities.
(a) Stone Age.—NSeries of paleeolithic implements collected by _
the late Lord Avebury, from Ightham and West Wickham, Kent’;
Thames gravels at Acton ; and Paviland Cave, Glamorganshire.
Presented by Rt. Hon. Lord Avebury.
A large paleolith from Romsey, Hants ; ciemplexnent of spear-
head form from Hayes Common, Kent; and series of implements
from Hitchin, Herts; and Tampsteld: ‘Surrey. iegined by Sir
FHlercules Read, LL.D.
Flint ehopper from the surface at Limpsfield, ee Presented
by V. P. Kitchin, Esq.
Type-series of the flint and other stone relics of Le Moustier
date excavated at St. Brelade Cave, Jersey : described in Archeo-
logia, vol. Ixvii. Presented by the British Association, with the
approval of the Société Jersiaise.
40 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
Flint implements excavated on Hackpen Hill, and found at
Winterbourn Bassett, Wilts: described in Proc. Soc. Antig., vol.
xxvil. Presented by Rev. H. G. O. Kendall, F.S.A.
Implements and flakes found by the donor in brickearth at
Luton, near Chatham, Kent. Presented by S. K. Turner, Esq.
Flake-implement with facetted butt from Grime’s Graves,
Weeting, Norfolk; and two implements from Ightham, Kent.
Presented by J. Reid Moir, Esq.
(b) Bronze Age.—Two bronze armlets found (with another in
the Museum) in a grave near Ramsgate, Kent. Presented hy Sir
Hercules Read, LL.D.
Circular shield and spear-head found on Brumby Common, near
Scunthorpe, Lines. Presented by Rt. Hon. Lord St. Oswald.
(ce) Early Iron Age.—Series of worked bones, spindle-whorls,
rubbing-stones and loom-weights, from the marsh-village at
Glastonbury, Somerset. Presented by the Glastonbury Antiquarian
Society.
Boat-shaped bronze brooch of early Italian type, found near
Taunton, Somerset. Presented by Sir Hercules Read, LL.D.
(d) Foreign.—An important series illustrating the earliest Iron
Age of Europe, excavated in 1869 at Hallstatt, in the Salzkammergut,
Upper Austria, and collected by the first Lord Avebury (Sir John
Lubbock). The principal specimen is a bronze bucket, nearly perfect,
of the 8th cent. B.c., the best of its kind from the site; and
the collection is illustrated in Archeologia, vol. Ixvii. Harlier
periods are represented by a series of flints from Le Moustier Cavern
in the Dordogne, and implements from La Ganterie, Cétes-du-Nord ;
Aarhus kitchen-middens, Denmark; Swiss Lake Dwellings and
Algeria ; and bronze implements from Saxony, Spain, Denmark, and
Italy. All the specimens not required for the Museum were dis-
tributed among 29 provincial museums on behalf of the donor,
Rt. Hon, Lord Avebury.
Bronze socketed celt from the Thayetmyo district of Burma.
Presented by J. C. Mackenzie, Esq., I.C.S.
Two bronze open-work relief of animals preying on each other,
Archaic Scythian, described in Man, 1917, No. 1. Presented by
Lous C. G. Clarke, Esq.
—(2.) Romano-British.
Pair of cinerary urns found with others in an ironstone recess,
Bramby Common, Lines. Presented by Rt. Hon. Lord St. Oswald.
(3.) Anglo-Saxon and Foreign Teutonic.
Bronze-gilt boss, probably from the cross of a shrine, with engraved
interlaced animals and spirals, niello and settings for amber or glass,
a fine example of Irish work of the 8th cent. Found in the church-
yard at Steeple Bumpstead, Essex, and for some years preserved
BRITISH AND MEDIAVAL ANTIQUITIES. 41
in the Church. Described in Proc. Soc. Antig., vol. xxvii.
Presented by Henry Oppenheimer, Esq., F.S.A., through the
National Art-Collections Fund.
Silver-gilt circular brooch with filigree and garnet cell-work,
Kentish, early 7th cent., from the Kennard collection, and
probably found in the King’s Field, Faversham, Kent. Also a pair
of gold discs, with cruciform design and gold filigree, forming the
clasp of a belt, Lombardic work of the 8th cent. Both presented
by the National Art-Collections Fund.
Quadruple gold chain, formed of open-work discs ; a gold com-
posite chain with jewelled discs at the endsand centre ; pair of gold
ear-rings with jewelled settings and three hanging chains ; and pair
of gold bracelets of serpent pattern. Byzantine, said to have been
found in Egypt. Presented by Mrs. Burns.
(4.) Medieval and Later.
A double ivory comb, with three sunk medallions on each face,
enclosing figures of animals, 12th cent. work; on one end in
medizval lettering is a Latin inscription, stating that the comb was
sent by Pope Gregory to Queen Bertha, but the identity of both is
uncertain. Described in Proc. Soc. Antig., vol. xxviii. Presented
by Maurice Rosenheim, Esq., F.S.A.
A jet pendant with bust of Charles I., and date of his execution.
Presented by Capt. Annesley Warre, F.S.A.
Three tiles simulating bricks, from the front of Smithfield Gate-
House, late 17th cent. Presented by H. A. Webb, Esq., F.S.A.
Two wooden trenchers, one with cavity for salt, from the Drane
collection, 17th cent. Presented by Sir Hercules Read, LL.D.
Brass lamp folding into the form of a book, early 18th cent.
Presented by Maurice Rosenheim, Esq., F.S.A.
(5.) Ceramic and Glass Collections.
Slipware dish with Royal Arms within the Garter, and C.R. in
the field, with name of the maker, Thomas Toft. Presented by Lady
Wernher.
Bristol porcelain dish in form of vine-leaf, with mark. Presented
by Miss Bird.
Five pieces of Chinese and Japanese pottery and porcelain from
the collection of the late R. Phené Spiers, Esq., F.S.A. Presented
by W. L. Spiers, Esq., F.S.A.
(6.)—Collection illustrating various Religions.
Chalcedony intaglio with the Adoration of the Magi, Early
Christian. Presented by Sir Hercules Read, LL.D.
(7.)—Oriental and Ethnographical.
Copper hand-warmer, with coloured enamels, Japanese ; and a
silver kohl-flask, with chain, probably Syrian. Presented by Maurice
Rosenheim, Esq., F.S.A.
42 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
Bronze spoon with shallow bowl and forked end, probably from
an interment in Corea. Presented by Prof. Bateson, F.R.S.
Japanese chain used in sword-play ; Chinese padlocks and one
from Sweden ; Japanese hand-cuffs and an Indian brass vessel.
Presented by Dr. Hildburgh, F.S.A.
Embroidered bag and ornaments of a Shan woman, Upper
Burma. Presented by Oscar Raphael, Esq., F.S.A.
Specimens from the Orang Dusun, British North Borneo, and a
stone adze from the coast. Presented by I. H. N. Evans, Esq.
Tiger-cowry hook for catching squid, from the Sandwich Islands
(Hawaii). Presented by J. Edge Partington, Esq.
Four stone body rubbers, from Temma, 100 miles north of
Coomassie, Gold’Coast. Presented by B. K. N. Wyllie, Esq., B.Sc.
Two wooden figures from the Bauchi Province, N. Nigeria.
Presented by E. A. Langslow Cock, Esq.
A shield, swords, spearheads and quiver from the Nandi Tribe,
H. Africa. Presented by Capt. Noel Monckton.
Glass and other beads from the beach of Pemba Island,
Zanzibar. Presented by C. EH. Hartland, Esq.
Hat of an Indian woman from Alaska. Presented by Mrs. J. Y.
W. MacAlister.
A series of ornaments from the Jibaro Indians of Ecuador.
Presented by J. L. Hermessen, Esq.
Fifteen specimens of pottery from Pueblo Rico, 8. Cancel and
from Apia, Colombia. Presented by Dr. Spurrell.
Four pottery bowls, Indian, from Uruguay. Presented by C. E.
R. Rowland, Esq.
Native implements from Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego, and
needlework from Fez. Presented by Mrs. EH, A. Warne.
Jade tikis, fish hook and celts from New Zealand ; and selected
specimens from North, Central and South America, New Guinea and
South Africa, including a series of Bushman stone implements, from
the collection of the late Lord Avebury. Presented by Kt. Hon.
Lord Avebury.
CHRISTY COLLECTION.
During the year the Trustees have acquired by donation the
following objects, which have been transferred to the Trustees of the
British Museum :—
A wooden figure froni the N.W. Coast of America. Presented
by Louis C. G. Clarke, Esq.
A reaping knife from Dér, arrows from Dinka, and a stone club
from the Lafofa tribe, 8. Kordofan. Presented by Dr. C. G. Seligman.
Charles H. Read.
DEPARTMENT OF COINS AND MEDALS. 43
DEPARTMENT OF CoINS AND MEDALS.
I.—Registration and Arrangement.
1. The registration and incorporation of recent acquisitions has
proceeded as follows :—
Greek. Roman. British. Medic val) | Onemar
&e. &c.
Registered alas Bee 115 8 146 577 21
Incorporated... ae 32 1 77 364 7
2. Hleven collections of coins and medals submitted for examina-
tion by their owners have been examined.
The bibliographies of Greek and Roman Numismatics, and of
General Numismatic Subjects, have been kept up to date. Progress
has also been made with the card-index of Greek coin-types. The
Alexandrine coins of Cyprus have been brought together and re-
arranged in accordance with recent research.
3. The re-cataloguing of the Departmental Library of numismatic
works has proceeded.
4, The exhibitions have been withdrawn, and about five-sixths
of the whole collection have been placed in greater security for the
period of the War. In order to maintain access to the objects thus
removed, lists have been drawn up of the cabinets with reference to
their new positions, so that in the majority of cases the removal of
the coins has not hindered the work of answering enquiries, or of
supplying casts for the illustration of serious numismatic publications.
I1.— Publications.
1. Catalogue of Greek Coins.
Coins of Arabia, Mesopotamia, Sc., by G. F. Hill.
The coins of Elymais and Susiana (289 in number) have been
weighed and catalogued; and the historical introduction to the
coinage of the Persian Empire, and part of that to the coinage of
Hlymais and Susiana, have been written.
27 plates of casts for illustration have been prepared.
2. Catalogue of English Coins.
Norman Kings, by-G. C. Brooke.
This work, in two volumes, has been completed and published.
IIl.— Acquisitions.
The total number of coins and medals added to the Department
: during the year 1916 was 834, of which 13 were of gold, 249 of
: silver, 341 of bronze or copper, and 231 of other materials.
44 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE RRITISH MUSEUM.
The following table shows the number of the new acquisitions
classified according to the several series to which they belong :—
Class. Gold. Silver. | Bronze. Nena Total.
Greek ... 1 63 52 — 116
Roman Fi ae — 1 8 _— 9
British and Colonial 3 29 32 Al 85
Medieval and Modern 4 135 241 207 587
Oriental 5 21 8 3 37
Total «... wae En 13 249 341 231 834
Of the above, 799 have been presented, viz. 11 of. gold, 230
of silver, 334 of bronze, and 224 of other materials.
The following is a list of the benefactors to the Department
during the year :—
Admiral The Marquis of Milford Haven, G.C.B., K.C.M.G. ;
the Government of Assam ; the Government of the United Provinces ;
the Deputy Master of the Royal Mint ; the Deputy Keeper, Public
Record Office; the Director, Prisoners of War; the Director,
Victoria and Albert Museum; the Director of the Fitzwilliam
Museum, Cambridge; the National Art Collections Fund; the
American Numismatic Society ; the Society of Antiquaries, London ;
the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society ; the British
School of Archeology in Egypt; the Yorkshire Archzeological
Society ; the Joan of Arc Statue Committee, New York; the
Governors of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-on-Avon;
the Directors of the Great Northern Railway Company ; HE. Heron
Allen, Esq. ; J. R. Ayris, Esq.; E. D. Barff, Esq.; F. J. Brittan,
Esq. ; W. H. Buckler, Esq. ; Sig. Memmo Cagiati ; W. Charlton,
Esq., J.P. ; J. T. Chell, Esq. ; the Executors of the late §. Cohen,
Esq.:; Richard Dalton, Esq.; A. M. Daniel, Esq.; M. Achilles
Diamantaras ; Sir Arthur Evans, P.S.A., F.R.S.; Miss Helen
Farquhar ; J. T. Fripp, Esq. ; Henry Garside, Esq. ; W. Gilbert,
Esq. ; A. Goodwin, Esq. ; Sir Evelyn Grant Duff, K.C.M.G.; H.
St. George Gray, Esq. ; H. T. Grogan, Esq. ; S. W. Grose, Esq. ;
W. G. Groves, Esq., J.P.; Miss Hargrove ; D. T. Harris, Esq. ;
F. W. Hasluck, Esq.; G. F. Hill, Esq. ; Mrs. G. F. Hill; W. J.
Hocking, Esq. ; J. Horne, Esq.; W. R. Hubbard, Hsq.; L. P.
Johnston, Esq.; R. Lloyd Kenyon, Esq., J.P., D.L.; L. A.
Lawrence, Hsq., F.S.A.; W: Leaf, Esq.; R. E. Low, Esq. ; G.
Macdonald, Esq., C.B.; C. Macpherson, Esq. ; the late Alexander
Mann, Esq. ; J. G. Milne, Esq. ; M. Victor Morin ; E. T. Newell,
Esq. ; M. Henry Nocq ; Henry Oppenheimer, Hsq., F.S.A.; M. A.V.
Oreshnikov ; Sir Lionel Phillips, Bart.; H. L. Rabino, Esq. ; Sir
Hercules Read ; the Rev. Edgar Rogers ; Maurice Rosenheim, Hsq.,
F.S.A.; H. Ling Roth, Esg.; Horace Sandars, Hsq., F.S.A. ;
DEPARTMENT OF GOINS AND MEDALS. 45
Captain Edw. Shepherd ; Messrs. Spink and Son; Mrs. Staunton ;
Henry Symonds, Esq., F.S.A.; Prof. J. Havard Thomas ; Henry
Van den Bergh, Esq. ; the Rev. J. A. Vanes ; Emery Walker, Hsq.,
F.S.A.; W. C. Wells, Esq.; Mr. J. Wilcke; Mrs. J. 8. Wilks ;
W. J. Wintle, Esq. ; Howland Wood, Esq. ; A. M. Woodward, Hsq.
ITV.—Remarkable Coins and Medals.
A. Coins.
An electrum half-stater (84°6 grs.) of the 7th cent. B.c., of an
uncertain Ionian mint; obv. Star in wreath; rev. Two incuse
impressions, one of which has been obliterated by a second impression.
From the Kessissoglou Collection. Presented by Henry Oppenheimer,
Hisq., PSA.
Twenty silver Persian sigloi from a hoard said to have been found
in Ionia, including some hitherto unknown varieties and many
peculiar countermarks. Presented by J. G. Milne, Esq.
A very rare silver tetradrachm of Syracuse ; obv. Four-horse
chariot, crowned by Victory ; below, olive-branch ; rev. Head of
nymph surrounded by four dolphins and usual inscription. Weight
262 grs. From the collection of Dr. A. C. Headlam. The olive-
branch symbol suggests that this coin commemorates the peace-
congress which was held at Gela in 424 B.c. Presented by Sir
Arthur Evans, F.R.S., PSA.
A hoard of 39 silver Athenian tetradrachms of the 5th and 4th
cent. of the usual types, found in the Ptah temenos at Memphis ;
most of the specimens are punchmarked or disfigured by testing-
marks ; one is a contemporary forgery ; and some are of excep-
tionally free style. Presented by the British School of Archeology in
Egypt.
A rare silver didrachm of Croton (types, eagle and tripod
crowned by Victory) of reduced weight (95 grs.), dating from
the period 280-277 B.c. From the collection of Dr. A. C.
Headlam. Presented by S. W. Grose, Esq.
A minute brass coin of the Emperor Hadrian, weighing 13:2
grs ; obv. Head of the Emperor ; rev. S.C. in wreath. Only one
other specimen is recorded. Presented anonymously.
A remarkable and hitherto unknown gold coin of the 18th
cent., issued by one of the West Indian colonies, probably
Jamaica ; it is made out of a Spanish Peruvian gold onza of 1738,
which has been plugged with a piece of gold, bringing the weight
up to that of the current “double doubloon,” 415°4 grs. On the
plug are impressed an alligator and the letters G. C., the initials of
the issuing authority. The coin probably dates from the end of the
18th cent. Presented by the late Alex. Mann, Esq.
Ten silver reals of the reign of Charles V., with the types of
Ferdinand and Isabella. Presented by Horace Sandars, Esq., F'.S.A.
46 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
Forty-eight specimens of the German thaler coinage of various
states, chiefly Austria, Mansfeld and Saxony, including a fine double
thaler of Johann Georg, Duke of Saxony, 1616. Presented by the
Executors of the late S. Cohen, Esq.
A selection of 392 modern coins, including a very complete
series of the nickel and copper coinage of the German Empire, of
various dates and mints hitherto unrepresented in the Museum.
Presented by Henry Garside, Esq.
Two specimens of the gold pond struck by the Boer Government in
1902 out of gold taken from the battery of the Transvaal Gold
Mining Estates ; obv. EEN POND; rev. monogram of Z.A.R. and
date 1902. Only three specimens are said to have been made of
one of these varieties. Presented by Sir Lionel Phillips, Bart.
Three gold coins of the vassals of the Almoravids, 11th—12th cent.,
from a hoard discovered about three years ago in the banks of the
Guadalquivir. Presented by Horace Sandars, Esq., F.S.A.
A gold Padma Tanka of Shri Rama, 15th-16th cent. Presented
by the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. ;
B.— Medals.
An unpublished bronze medal commemorating the foundation by
Cardinal Jacopo Savelli in 1565 of a house for the association of
Papal grooms ; obv. Virgin and Child with St. Anne; rev. Arms
of Savelli. Presented by Maurice Rosenhem, Esq., F.S.A.
A silver medal of the Swedish freemason Patrick Alstromer,
1785. Presented by Mrs. J. S. Wilks.
Twenty-nine medals issued in Germany during the present war,
commemorating various events and embodying various claims.
Among these are: a large cast iron medal representing an air attack
on London, 17th-18th August, 1915, with Zeppelins over the
Tower Bridge ; the medal (in iron) commemorating the sinking of
the “ Lusitania”’ (represented as a war-ship with ram, laden with
aeroplanes, guns, &.) ; a medal (in bronze) of Admiral von Tirpitz,
with Neptune afloat on a submarine shaking his fist at English
shipping ; a medal (in bronze) of the Crown Prince Wilhelm as
young Siegfried ; and a silver medal of General von Kluck, rev.
Fury on horseback “‘ Nach Paris, 1914.” Twenty-one of these were
presented by a friend of the Museum.
Bronze medal or plaque commemorating the Victory of the
Marne, by 8. Kinsburger.
Bronze medal in memory of the French men of letters who
have fallen in the war, by M. Henry Nocq. Presented by the Artist.
A silver medal by Chaplain of the 25th anniversary of the Ny-
Carlsberg Brewery. Presented by Miss Hargrove.
Two bronze medals commemorating the Battles of Heligoland
Bight and Dogger Bank, and the Battle of Jutland Bank. Presented
by Admiral The Marquis of Milford Haven, G.C.B.
DEPARTMENT OF COINS AND MEDALS. 47
The Shakespeare Tercentenary Medal, in silver and in bronze, by
Mrs. Dorothy Dick. Presented by the Governors of the Shakespeare
Memorial Theatre.
Two bronze prize medals in memory of Miss Rosa Morison, by
Prof. J. Havard Thomas. Presented by the Artist.
Bronze medal of the unveiling of the statue of Joan of Arc in
New York. Presented by the Joan of Arc Statue Committee.
V.—Students and Visitors.
The number of students and visitors admitted to the Department
during the months of January and February, 1916, was 377. From
March 1st onwards the Department has been closed to the public.
G. F. Fall.
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British Museum (Natura History).
STATEMENT of Progress made in the ARRANGEMENT and
DeEscRIPTION of the CoLLEcTIoNs, and Account of OsusEcts
added to them, in the Year 1916.
GENERAL PROGRESS.
Visitors.
The total number of visits made by the public to the Natural
History Museum during 1916 was 402,673, as compared with
433,581 in 1915.
The attendance on Sunday afternoons was 43, 414, as against
48,409 in the previous year.
The average daily attendance for all open days was 1,106 ;
for week-days, 1,155; and for Sunday afternoons, 819.
To meet the wishes of His Majesty’s Government some of the
Geological Galleries are closed to the public for the duration of
the war; but the Central Hall and certain of the Zoological
Galleries are open to the public daily, and other parts of the Museum
on alternate days.
Swiney Lectures.
Dr. J. D. Falconer having relinquished his appointment as
Swiney Lecturer in order to take up a temporary administrative
post in Nigeria, Dr. J. 8. Flett was appointed to give the course
of Swiney lectures in November and December of 1916. The
subject on this occasion was “The Mineral Resources of Europe.”
The lectures, twelve in number, were delivered at the Royal Society
of Arts, the theatre at the Victoria and Albert Museum not being
available, and were attended, on an average, by 96 persons a lecture.
Museums Association.
The Museum was again represented by Dr. F. A. Bather at the
Annual Meeting of the Museums Association, held at Ipswich in
July. Among the subjects discussed was the prospect of organising
a scheme with a view to museums in this country combining
to obtain from home manufacturers all museum apparatus, such as
rectangular glass jars, hitherto chiefly supplied by Germany.
Special Exhibition.
An exhibition of “Trout-fies ” (the natural insects and the
artificial “flies” used as bait by anglers), presented by Mr. Martin
H. Mosely, has been arranged and placed in the Insect Gallery.
The War and the Museum Staff.
At the end of 1916, 59 members of the staff of the Nite
History Museum were serving with the Naval and Military forces.
In addition, 12 Museum men have joined the Volunteers [1st
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Battalion Central London Regiment (United Arts Rifles) ] ; six men
are serving as Special Constables ; and six men form a Museum
detachment of the London Ambulance Column. This detachment
has been very active during the past year, having received and dealt
with 286 separate calls to attend wounded men from hospital trains
or from the hospitals. Four members of the staff have been lent to
the Ministry of Munitions; one assistant is doing duty as
Bacteriologist at Haslar Hospital under the Admiralty ; and another
Assistant has been lent to the War Office and is shortly proceeding
to Salonika as Protozoologist. Only one man of military age and
passed as fit for general service is at present employed at the Museum.
This man received exemption as being indispensable for the
preservation of the collections.
Three members of the Museum Establishment have been killed in
action, and one is reported as missing since the 19th September ;
seven have been wounded.
_ The Military Cross has been awarded to two assistants, viz. :—
Captain A. K. Totton, Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry, and
Captain W. Campbell Smith, attached to the Gas Company, Royal
Engineers.
A Parliamentary Return has been issued of the number of civil
servants on military service, showing that of 26 men of military age
remaining at the Natural History Museum on Ist April, 1916, 11 were
enrolled, 14 were rejected on medical grounds, and one applied for
exemption on the ground of conscientious objection and is now
working on a fruit farm.
The War and the Work of the Museum.
The Museum has been able to render assistance to various public
departments in matters connected with the war. Some of these
being of a confidential nature cannot be mentioned here, but note may
be made of the following as examples of the sort of inquiries which
reach the Museum :—
(a) Nature of some organisms which caused blocking-up of
certain sea-water pipes ;
(b) As to some mite-infested oats at the Front ;
(c) Application of a remedy for the rice-weevil in connection ~
with the disease of beri-beri ;
(d) As to methods of destruction of bed-bugs ;
(e) The identification of specimens of larvee found in drinking
water ;
(7) Nature of wood used in the construction of a propeller of
a Zeppelin brought down in this country ;
(g) Advice as to certain samples of so-called “‘ Silver Spruce ”
from British North America ;
(h) Inquiry as to certain wood stated to possess luminous
properties.
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The Museum is assisting in the distribution, through its
correspondents abroad, of propagandist literature presenting the
cause of the Allies. In many cases thesé correspondents have shown
their interest and keenness to help by asking to be supplied with
additional copies of the pamphlets, Kc.
British and Russian Men of Science.
A correspondence has passed between the Museum, the Foreign
Office, and the Board of Education with reference to the desirability
of a closer intercourse between British and Russian men of science.
The Museum represented that one of the chief difficulties in
the past that has stood in the way of closer co-operation had been
the language, and it was: suggested that much might be done to
facilitate closer intercourse by the publication in English and
“ French of scientific papers by Russian workers. It was also
stated that the Museum would always be ready to encourage
exchange of specimens with Russian institutions.
Royal Society Committee on Grain Pests.
Accommodation at the Museum has been placed at the disposal
of the Committee formed by the Royal Society to inquire into the
' bionomics and economics of grain-infesting insect pests, and
Mr. J. Hartley Durrant, a member of the staff of the Entomo-
logical Department, has been appointed to serve on the Committee.
Stranded Whales.
The interest of the records of Cetacea stranded on the British
coasts has by no means fallen off during the past year. Altogether
29 records were received (one more than in 1915), the most
interesting being a Cuvier’s Whale, believed to be the first specimen
of this species recorded from the English coast; a Sowerby’s
Whale ; a White-sided Dolphin ; a young Sperm Whale; and a
Killer, or Grampus, of exceptional size. Parts of most of the
specimens were secured for the Museum. Valuable help in this
inquiry has again been given by Receivers of Wreck, Coastguard
Officers, and others ; andthe thanks of the Trustees are due also to
the Board of Trade for continuing the arrangements which have
made it possible to carry on the work.
Antarctic Whales.
Considerable attention continues to be given to the investigation
of whales in the Antarctic. A number of papers and statistics
relating to the subject, and. especially to whaling operations in
South Georgia, have been referred to the Museum by the Colonial
Office. In this connection Dr. Harmer has drawn attention to the
large increase in the number of Blue Whales captured in the season
1914-15 as compared with previous seasons, and to a corresponding
diminution in the number of Humpbacks caught by the whalers—a
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very significant and disquieting feature of the operations, as indicative
of the consequences of over-fishing of a particular species. Similar
evidence is forthcoming from his examination of a report on the South
Shetland Whaling Season, 1915-16, which contains valuable informa-
tion supplementing the reports received from -South Georgia. In
this case, the statistics show that the total number of whales captured
during the season was 4,431, the majority being Blue and Fin Whales,
and only 219 Humpbacks, of which comparatively few are left in
the South Shetlands area.
Sealing Industry in South Georgia.
Dr. Harmer has also reported on a number of papers transmitted
by the Colonial Office relating to the sealing industry in South
Georgia. From these papers it appeared that there was no observable
decrease in the number of Hlephant-Seals since the industry was
established under the terms of an Ordinance of 1909, notwithstanding
that the number killed averaged 3,028 annually.
Other Investigations.
Other matters that have come within the scope of the activities
of the Museum during the past year, which may be briefly noted
here, are :—
(a) Questions arising out of the Canadian Commission to
consider the alleged depredations of Sea Lions on the Pacific
Coasts of North America, in connection with the fishing and
canning industries ;
_ (6) The identification of certain animal forms of tinned food
such as Pacific Lobsters, Sardines or Sprats, Ke. ;
(c) The identification of Poisonous Fishes in the West Indies ;
(d) The Sponge Fishery in the West Indies ;
(e) The introduction of Reindeer ‘and other animals into South
Georgia ; |
(7) The protection of Birds and Wild Mammals in the Crown
Colonies and Protectorates ;
(g) The desirability of a measure to restrict the importation of
Wild Birds’ Plumage.
Rowland Ward Bequest.
The Trustees of the Rowland Ward Bequest have presented to
the Museum during the year twelve mounted specimens, including a
Wild Sheep from Thian-Shan, a Lion from British East Africa, and
a female Gorilla from the Cameroons.
Presents.
The total number of gifts received during the year by the
several Departments was 1,697, as compared with 1,825 in 1915.
Many of these comprised large numbers of individual specimens.
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The details of all the more important of them will be found in the
reports of the Keepers of Departments, but the following are
mentioned here also as being of special interest or value :—
From—
Lady Seton-Karr—five very fine specimens of heads of Big
Game selected from the collection of her husband, the late Sir
Henry Seton-Karr. (See Return, 1916, p. 66.) |
The Duke of Hamilton—the head of a bull from his herd of
‘* Wild” white cattle in Cadzow Forest.
Mr. H. F. Varian—a remarkably fine pair of horns, with mask,
of a new sub-species of Sable Antelope from Angola.
skeletons and a skull of Musk-
Ox, formerly the property of the late Lord Strathcona, her father.
The Board of Trade—the head and paddles of a White-sided
Dolphin, stranded at Rathlee, Co. Sligo ; and parts of a Grampus
or Killer Whale, captured on the Colvend shore, Kirkcudbrightshire.
Captain D. McCalmont—the skeleton of the famous racehorse
“ Tsinglass,” winner of the Derby of 1893.
Mr. KE. J. Brook—a selection of birds from a collection obtained
by Mr. Walter Goodfellow in the high mountains of Hceuador,
including the types and co-types of five new species.
Mr. A. L. Butler—a series of birds, consisting of the remainder
of his Soudanese collection, specimens from Ceylon, India, and Europe,
and a number of Paradise-birds, Kingfishers, and Pittas ; in all
1,452 specimens, including several types.
Mr. E. G. Herbert—a fine collection of Siamese birds, consisting
of 1,061 skins and 500 eggs.
The Lords of the Admiralty—a Leathery Turtle captured in a
net off the Scilly Islands, a very rare specimen.
Messrs. W. Henan & Sons—a large Sunfish caught off the
South of Ireland.
Mr. A. O. Walker—a nalleen of 657 tubes of specimens of
Crustacea, chiefly Amphipoda.
Mr. G, F. Rousselet—his valuable collection of about 1,200
mounted slides of Rotifera and Freshwater Polyzoa.
Mr. Henry Sidebottom—a collection of Foraminifera, of high
scientific value, consisting of about 18,000 specimens, including
numerous types.
The Trustees of the Percy Sladen Memorial Fund—the first
selection from a valuable collection of fossil reptiles from the
Cretaceous rocks of Alberta, Canada.
Sir. John Haglesome, Director of Railways and Works in
Nigeria—an important collection of Eocene fossils, including part
of the sternum of the largest known bird of flight, and -interesting
remains of other vertebrates, from a railway cutting in Nigeria.
Sir W. Crookes, F.R.S.—a valuable series of mineral specimens
from his private collection, consisting of gold, platinum, silver,
diamonds (including a crystal coloured by radium), &e.
Mr. F’. N. Ashcroft—a fine series of specimens of Zeolities.
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Mrs. Litchfield—five sheets of the manuscript of her father
Mr. Charles Darwin’s famous work “The Origin of Species,” for
preservation with the series of specimens of handwritings of
naturalists.
Mrs. McConnell—a handsomely bound copy of a work on the
Birds of British Guiana, published by her in memory of her late
husband, Mr. F. V. McConnell, a benefactor of the Museum.
Lord Rothschild—five volumes of drawings of plants, by W. G.
Smith, the originals of published plates.
Purchases.
With the exception of the purchase for £100 of the sixth
instalment of the Distant collection of insects, to which the Trustees
were committed, and of books for the upkeep of the several libraries,
purchases were restricted to a few unimportant transactions.
Exchanges and Gifts of Duplicates.
Exchanges of duplicate specimens have been made with various
institutions and individuals.
The Trustees have readily agreed to a request from the Prime
Minister of New Zealand that a representative set of duplicate
specimens from the collections of the Scott (“Terra Nova”)
Antarctic Expedition may be presented to the Dominion Museum at
Wellington, and, if numbers permit, to the three other chief Museums
of the Dominion at Dunedin, Christchurch, and Auckland. A first
set of the duplicates will accordingly be placed at the disposal of
the New Zealand Government in due course.
Duplicate specimens have been presented as follows :—
Zoological specimens (other than entomological)—to the Royal
Scottish Museum, Edinburgh ; Prof. G. H. F. Nuttall, r.r.s. ; Major
Hi. HE. Austen ; Dr. E. Pawlowsky (Petrograd) ; Lt. Commr. A.
Cherry-Garrard, r.N.; Surgeon EH. L. Atkinson, r.n.; Mr. C. S.
Wright ; and Prof. H. Fawcett.
Entomological specimens—to Prof. A. Hustache ; M. Antoine
Grouvelle ; Mr. H. E. Andrewes ; and Mr. L. B. Prout.
Fossils—to the Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge.
(N.B.—AII the individuals named have rendered services to the
Museum.) |
Publications.
The following works on Natural History have been published
during the year :—
British [Scott] Antarctic (‘‘ Terra Nova”) Expedition, 1910.
Natural History Report. Zoology. 4to :—
Vol. i, No. 4. Larval and Post-larval Fishes. By C. Tate
Regan, M.A. Pp. 125—156: 5 text-figures, 10 plates. 9s.
Vol. ii, No. 6. Myzostomida. By C. L. Boulenger, m.a.,
D.sc. Pp. 135—140: 1 plate. Ls.
Vol. ii, No. 2. Crustacea, Pt. I, Decapoda. By L. A.
Borradaile, M.A. Pp. 75—110: 16 text-figures. 3s.
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Vol. iii, No. 3. Crustacea, Pt. II, Porcellanopagurus : an
instance of Carcinization. By L. A. Borradaile, m.a.
Pp. 111—126: 13 text-figures. 1s. 6d.
Vol. iii, No. 4. Crustacea, Pt. III, Cirripedia. By L. A.
Borradaile, ma. Pp. 127—136: 7 text-figures. - 1s.
Report on Cetacea stranded on the British coasts. By 8S. F.
Harmer, so.p., F.n.s. No. 3. Cetacea stranded during 1915.
Pp. 12; 1 map.’ ‘Ato... 1s:(6d: 3
Catalogue of Ungulate Mammals. Vol. v. Perissodactyla, Hyra-
coidea, Proboscidea. With Addenda to the earlier volumes. By the
late R. Lydekker, r.z.s. Pp. xlv,207: 31 text-figures. 8vo. 7s. 6d.
Catalogue of the Fresh-water Fishes of Africa. By G. A.
Boulenger, wens. Vol. iv. Pp. xxvii, 392': 195 | text-fipures.
Imp. 8vo. £1 10s.
Guide to the specimens and enlarged models of Insects and Ticks
exhibited in the Central Hall, illustrating their importance in the
spread of Disease. By W. G. Ridewood, p.sc. Pp. 44: 14 text-
figures. 8vo. 6d.
Instructions for Collectors, No. 13—Alcohol and Alcoholometers.
By 8. FP... Harmer, so. FBS.) Pp. Svos) od:
Economic Series, No. 3.—Fleas as a Menace to Man and Domestic
Animals. Their Life-History, Habits and Control. By J. Water-
ston, B.D., B.Sc. Pp. 21: 1 plate, 6 text-figures. 8vo. Id.
Heonomic Series, No. 4.—Mosquitoes and their relation to Disease.
Their Life-History, Habits and Control. By F. W. Edwards, B.a.
Pp. 20: 6 text-figures. 8vo. 1d.
New editions have been issued of two numbers of the “ Instruc-
tions for Collectors,” namely, No. 2, “ Birds and their Eggs ” (Sixth
edition, pp. 14: 6 text-figures. 8vo. 3d.), and No. 3, “ Reptiles,
Batrachians, and Fishes” (Fourth edition, pp. 12. 8vo. 3d.).
Selections of the natural history publications have been sent to
free libraries and other institutions at home and abroad, and to
persons who have benefited the Museum by helping in the prepara-
tion of the works, or in other ways.
GENERAL LIBRARY.
The additions to the General Library during the past year
have been :— |
By purchase - 191 volumes.
By donation - 719 volumes, 1 map, and 158 photographs.
Total = 910 ii 158
All the volumes and maps have been catalogued, press-marked
and put in their places, whilst 834 volumes have been bound in 540.
The extent of the collection on the 31st December was 45,873
volumes, 5,929 maps, and 1,022 photographs (not including those
in the Owen Collection of Drawings, &c.).
The accessions to the Departmental Libraries have also been
catalogued as they came in, and duplicate transcripts of the titles
have been returned with the books.
BRITISH MUSEUM (NATURAL HISTORY). 5)
Altogether 1,488 title-slips have been written, 68 rewritten,
and 1,934 revised (independently of those prepared for printing).
There are now, on a rough estimate, 101,806 volumes (exclusive
of continuations and minor separata) and 6,250 maps in the whole
building.
The number of visits paid to the General Library during the
year by students and others (irrespective of the staff and persons
to whom the use of a key is granted) was 1,681.
Donations have been received from a great number of Museums,
Academies, and other corporate bodies, as well as from personal
donors.
The printing of the Supplement to the Library Catalogue has
been begun, the whole of letter ““A” has been set up in type and
has been printed off as far as “ALMQ.”
INDEX GENERUM ET SPECIERUM ANIMALIUM.
During the year considerable progress has been made with this
Index, under Mr. C. Davies Sherborn’s charge, and some 35,000
slips have been compiled and incorporated.
The manuscript has been continuously and extensively consulted
during the past year by the staff and students, whilst many
enquiries have been answered by Mr. Sherborn in correspondence.
The recording for the year has been principally done from the
journals of Academies and from periodical publications, with a view
to the convenience of consultants, and the Index is now in an
advanced state, having been carried out as far as the letter “'T.”
InDEX Museum.
All the dissections exhibited in the Hall that are mounted in
preservative fluid were inspected during the year, and several have
been resealed and others refilled.
An explanatory guide-book to the specimens and models of
disease-spreading insects and ticks exhibited in the Hall was issued
in January. The pamphlet, which is to a large extent a compilation
of the labels that are attached to the specimens displayed, redrafted
in such a manner that they read consecutively, consists of forty-five
pages and is illustrated by fourteen text-figures.
A series of drawings, enlarged and of actual size, of insects that
lay their eggs in the puparia of tsetse-flies was mounted for exhibition
in the early part of the year. These insects, from the fact that they
prevent the development of the tsetse-flies in the puparia thus para-
sitised, tend to reduce the numbers of tsetse-flies occurring in a
district, and to limit the spread of sleeping-sickness and other
diseases of trypanosome origin, such as ‘‘nagana,” and are con-
sequently to be regarded as beneficial.
In connection with a notice issued by the military authorities
forbidding the shooting of carrier-pigeons, a series of three typical
carrier-pigeons has been mounted, together with specimens of other
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pigeons with which they might be confused. The distinguishing
features of the various birds exhibited are explained in the labels
that accompany the specimens.
During the month of May there was placed on exhibition a small
series illustrating the natural history of the worm Bilharzia (Schisto-
somum), that causes a disease of the bladder and rectum, known as
bilharziosis, common in Africa, the West Indies, and Japan. The
series includes actual specimens of the worms as they occur in the
veins of the intestine, and examples are shown of pond-snails which
are known to harbour the alternate generation of the parasites. -The
life-history of the worm is explained by means of drawings of the
egg, and of the sporocyst and cercaria stages, and photographs of
bilharzia-infected canals in Egypt are mounted to illustrate how
the disease may be communicated to human beings by bathing or
standing in infected water.
In consequence of the interest taken in the series of lice exhibited
under simple lenses in the Hall, the method of display has been
adopted in the case of three disease-spreading species of mosquitoes,
a flea, and two bugs.
Further progress has been made in the introductory series of
animals, plants. and rocks which, when completed, will be exhibited
in four table-cases in the middle of the Hall. The third case
(Invertebrates other than Protozoa) has been roughly planned out,
and some progress has been made in the preparation of the specimens
it is intended to display in the case.
L. Fletcher,
Director.
British Museum (Natural History),
24 February, 1917.
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DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY.
I.—Arrangement and Conservation.
MAMMALIA.
Mammal Galleries.
The principal additions to the Exhibition Galleries have been
received from the Trustees of the late James Rowland Ward, and
include the following :—
A Lion (Felis leo) from the Athi Plains, British East Africa ;
a female Gorilla (Gorilla gorilla) and three Duwikers from the
Cameroons ; a Big-horn (Ovis karelini) from the Thian Shan; a
Muntjac (Muntiacus lacrymans) from Sze-chwan, and a Dik-Dik
(Rhynchotragus damarensis variant) from Angola.
Other specimens are an Albino Badger from Surrey, presented
by Lord Hylton ; the Head of a Nilgiri [bex (Hemuitragus hylocrius)
from the Kundah Hills, presented by W. 8S. Rowson, Esq. ; a skull
of a Musk Ox (Owibos moschatus), presented by Lady Strathcona
and Mount Royal; two skulls of the West African Hartebeest
(Bubalis major), presented by A. E. Kitson, Esq. ; and male and
female horns of the Angolan Sable (Aippotragus niger variant),
presented by H. F. Varian, Esq.
The specimens in the Gorilla, Lion and large Sheep cases have
been rearranged and the ground-work has been remade.
Study Series —The usual work of labelling, registering and
incorporating the Mammals added to the Collection, and their skulls,
has been continued.
The skins of the Canidee, Viverride, and Caviide have been
rearranged, in connection with scientific work done upon them.
The Seal-skins and the skulls of Hystricomorph Rodents have also
been placed in better order.
Mr. R. C. Wroughton, Mr. T. B. Fry and Mr. M. A. C. Hinton
have again afforded valuable voluntary help in working out accessions
to the collection, the first two especially in connection with the
specimens received through the Bombay Natural History Society’s
Survey. The species have all been named, reports written on them,
and series selected for registration and distribution. The services
of Dr. Knud Andersen have been continued for the preparation of
the second volume of the Catalogue of Bats, but a large part of his
time has been taken up at the War Office.
The fifth and last volume of the Catalogue of Ungulates, by the
late R. Lydekker, F.R.S., was published in 1916.
Osteological Room.—Two large cases, not required in the Exhibi-
tion Galleries, have been refitted and re-erected in the Osteological
Room, to contain Human crania and skeletons. A number of racks
have also been erected to contain skeletons awaiting cabinets.
Several Human skulls and skeletons have been removed from the
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Exhibition Galleries to the Osteological Room, on account of their
great rarity, as a protective measure against the raids of hostile
aircraft.
Mr. L. Charliers has worked in this part of the Museum at the
conservation of the Collections which have been received on behalf
of the Congo Museum at Tervueren.
A Report has been issued on the Human OCrania collected by
the British Ornithologists’ Union Expedition and the Wollaston
Expedition to Dutch New Guinea.
A number of casts of Whale-flippers have been made.
AVES.
The remounting of specimens in the Hxhibition Gallery has been
continued, and the families Pycnonotidee, Troglodytide, Cinclidee,
and Mimide have been completed, with distribution-maps,
labels, &e.
The rearrangement of the study series in the Bird Room has
been continued and the remaining portions of the Passeres have been
finally arranged in the cabinets, the names of the species placed on
the outside of each drawer and the names of the family and genera
on the outside of each cabinet ; the position of each species of the
entire collection has been entered in the Reference Catalogue.
Register-numbers have been put on 3,233 eggs of the Seebohm
Collection and on 2,722 eggs of the Radcliffe Saunders Collection.
Help in labelling ail preparing specimens for incorporation was
received from Mr. Cyril W. Mackworth Praed and Miss M. Garnett.
The more notable presents were the following :—
From Mr. A. L. Butler, a large and valuable collection of
Huropean, Asiatic and African birds, including three types of new
species. From Mr. E. G. Herbert, a valuable collection of birds
and eggs from Siam. From Mr. J. D. La Touche, a large collection
of eggs from Hastern China. From Mr. G. L. Bates, a collection of
egosfrom West Africa. From Mr. E. J. Brook, a valuable collection
from Western South America, including the types of five forms
recently described as new to science. From the Subscribers to the
British Ornithologists’ Union Expedition to Dutch New Guinea, a
very large and valuable collection of birds and eggs from Dutch
New Guinea, including the types of nine newly described species.
From Lord Rothschild, F.R.S., a fine specimen of Keysser’s
Cassowary, mounted in the Hxhibition Gallery. From the Trustees
of the late James Rowland Ward, a restoration of the Great Auk
mounted for the Exhibition Gallery.
During the year the study collection has been consulted by the
following visitors, who have been occupied in systematic work on
various groups :—Mr. E. C. Stuart Baker, Mr. T. Iredale, Colonel
Stephenson Clark, Mr. W. L. Sclater, Mr. EH. Gibson, Lord
Rothschild, F.R.S., Dr. P. R. Lowe, Mr. G. M. Mathews, Mr. W.
Goodfellow, Mr. H. F. Witherby, Miss A. Jackson, Mr. W. H.
Wait, Dr. H. Langton, Dr. H. Hartert.
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The following artists engaged*in preparing drawings for forth-
coming works have also made use of the collection:—Mr. H.
Goodchild, Major H. Jones, Mr. H. Grénvold, Miss Medland,
Mr. R. Green, Mr. Archibald E. Thorburn, Mr. G. E. Lodge.
DomESTICATED ANIMALS.
The more interesting additions are the following :—
The head of a bull from the herd of ‘‘ Wild White Cattle”? in
Cadzow Forest, presented by the Duke of Hamilton. The head of
a “Siberian Sheep,” a race of unknown origin, presented by H. J.
Elwes, Hsq., F.R.S. A Tibetan Spaniel, presented by Mrs. Wilmot
Corfield.
A Coucou de Malines Fowl, presented by Mrs. R. Terrot. Three
Homing Pigeons, presented by Capt. A. H. Osman.
REPTILIA AND BATRACHIA.
The Assistant in charge has completed a revision of the Family
Lacertidze, of which parts have already been published and others
are in the press.
Owing to the lack of assistance, little could be done in the
way of changing spirit and replenishing jars in the collection, but
the greater part of the Snakes and the whole of the Lacertide have
been overhauled.
Casts and dissections have been made of a large Leathery Turtle
obtained off the Scilly Islands and presented by the Admiralty.
Piscss.
Eahabition Galleries.—Of the additions to the Fish Gallery special
mention may be made of a very large Sunfish (Orthagoriscus mola)
presented by Messrs. W. Howlett ; and of the model of a Goldsinny
(Crenilabrus melops), made and painted by the donor, F. Page, Hsq.
The Exhibition of Freshwater Fishes in the British Saloon has
been finished and a Guide to this series has been written. Notable
additions during the year are a Tench (Yinca tinca) of 5 lbs. from
Gatton Park, Surrey, presented by F. R. Graham, Esq. ; and a Dace
(Leuciscus Dee) weighing 14 lbs. from the Kennet, presented by
F. Barker, Esq.
Study Series.—All the accessions have been incorporated and
have added to the congestion in the Spirit Building. The work of
replenishing the collection with spirit has been continued ; nearly
200 gallons have been used during the year and have sufficed
for about one-third of the Fish Collection. It is most important that
this work should continue at the same rate.
Considerable progress has been made with a revision and rearrange-
ment of the Clupeide.
Mo.uusca.
Mr. Robson, the Assistant in charge of the Mollusca, was absent
on military duty during the greater part of the year, and there are
few changes to notice in this part of the collection.
60 — ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
A Report on the Cephalopoda “of the British Antarctic (“ Terra
Nova”) Expedition, by Miss A. L. Massy, has been published, and
the specimens have been returned to the Museum.
Lieut.-Col. H. H. Godwin-Austen, F.R.S., has continued his
work on the Oriental land and freshwater Mollusca.
The death, on July 22nd, 1916, of Mr. E. A. Smith, I.8.0.,
formerly Assistant-Keeper, was a very serious loss to the Depart-
ment, to which he continued to give valuable aid, after his retire-
ment in 1913, almost to the end of his life.
MyriopopA AND ARACHNIDA.
Special attention was given to parasitic Acari during the year,
and a number of species of economic importance were dealt with,
including some rare forms, such as the Demodea of the horse, the
Chorioptes affecting the feet of sheep, &e. A Guide to the species
of Arachnida and Myriopoda injurious to Man has been prepared
and is now in the press. The arrangement of the Kéch Collection
was continued but has been somewhat impeded by the delay in
delivering the glass tubes necessary for this work.
CRUSTACEA AND PYCNOGONIDA.
A few spirit specimens in the exhibited series have been refilled
and resealed.
The periodical refilling and cleaning of the bottles in the Spirit
Collection has been carried on with many interruptions due to lack
of assistance.
A large collection presented during the year by Mr. A. O. Walker
has been roughly sorted and stored to await proper arrangement
and registration. With this exception the specimens received have
all been registered and incorporated in the general collection. It has
not been possible to make any progress with the registration of the
Norman Collection or of the other collections alluded to in former
Returns.
EXCHINODERMA.
The respiriting of several groups of Echinoderms has been
carried out. ;
A small but interesting collection from South Australia, received
some time since, has been determined and will shortly be incorporated.
The Index Catalogue to the collection of Microscopic slides,
illustrating this and other groups mentioned in last year’s Return,
has been completed.
The revision of the MS. Catalogue of Hchinoidea has been
finished, and progress has been made with that of the Ophiuroidea.
Worms.
Mr. Baylis, the Assistant in charge of part of the collection of
Worms, is absent, being engaged in war work at the R. Naval Hospital,
Haslar.
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The Beddatd Collection of Oligocheta has been respirited and
the exhibited collection of worms has been rearranged.
POLYZOA.
Important acquisitions have been registered and incorporated.
ANTHOZOA.
The chief work with this portion of the collection has been the
cleaning of part of the study collection.
HybDROZOA.
Mr. Totton, Assistant, to whom the Military Cross has been
awarded, is still absent owing to the war ; and hardly any work has
therefore been done in this part of the collection.
PoRIFERA (SPONGES).
The working out of the ‘“‘Terra Nova” collection has been
continued. .
The conservation of the spirit collection, which was completely
respirited in 1915 and partly sealed with a preparation of beeswax and
vaseline, has received further attention.
PROTOZOA.
The acquisitions of the year have been registered and incorporated.
The most important addition is the collection of Foraminifera,
presented by H. Sidebottom, Esq., and noticed on p. 71.
Il.— Duplicates and Exchanges.
(a) Duplicates.
Duplicates have been distributed among museums, scientific insti-
tutions, &c., as follows :—
Mammalia.—Mr. A. J. Rudd.
Aves.—Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh; Surg. E. L.
Atkinson, R.N.; Lt.-Com. A. Cherry-Garrard, R.N.; Mr. C. 8.
Wright.
Reptia.—Prof. EH. Fawcett.
Mollusca.— Major E. . Austen.
Arachnida.—Prof. G. H. F. Nuttall, F.R.S.
(b) Exchanges.
Exchanges have been made with the following institutions and
individuals :—
Mammalia.—University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge ; Museo
Civico, Genoa ; Prof. W. Leche.
62 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
Aves.—Tring Museum; Mr. H. C. Stuart Baker ; Messrs.
Rowland Ward, Ltd.
Reptilia and Batracha.— U.S. National Museum, Washington ;
Prof. S. Hatta.
Pisces.—Prof. C. H. Higenmann ; Col. C. H. Shepherd.
Mollusca.—Wellcome Laboratory, London ; M. J. H. Young.
Arachnida.—Indian Museum, Calcutta ; Dr. E. Pawlowsky.
III.—Departmental Library.
The acquisitions to the Library of the Departments of Zoology
and Entomology (including the Walsingham Library) during the
year, obtained by purchase, presentation and exchange, consist of
38 separate works and pamphlets in 50 volumes, and 1,285 parts of
periodicals and works in progress.
236 volumes, including those belonging to the Walsingham
Library, have been bound.
The work of collating, stamping, press-marking, and entering all
additions in the Catalogue has been performed as usual.
The Attendant in the Library, with the aid and supervision of an
Assistant, has checked all the entries of Zoological works in the
portion of the General Catalogue of Books which has been printed
during the year.
Of the donations the following are worthy of special mention :—
The Birds of Australia, Vol. V., parts 2-4; Vol. VI., part 1;
presented by G. M. Mathews, Esq.; and a very fine copy of
Wilkes, B., “The English Moths and Butterflies together with the
Plants, Flowers and Fruits whereon they feed and are usually
found.” First edition ; presented by Lord Rothschild, F.R.S.
The most important addition by purchase during the year was :
Poda, N., ‘“‘ Insecta Musei Greecensis.”
LV.— Publications.
In addition to the Official Catalogues and other volumes published
by the Trustees (see pp. 53-54), various reports and descriptive
papers have been prepared in connection with the different branches
of the collection, and have been published for the most part in
scientific journals.
V.— Acquisitions.*
MAMMALIA.
Total number 922, of which 872 were donations, 36 were
purchases, and 14 were received in exchange.
The contribution of the Bombay Natural History Society again
forms the largest item (382 specimens) of the accessions, although
not to the same extent as last year. All the Society’s regular
* A table showing the number of specimens added during the year is given on
page 71.
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collectors have gone to the Front, but by the help of native
collectors and the donations of Mr. Mackenzie of the Forest
Service, much good work is still being carried out. Papers on
the various collections, mostly by R. C. Wroughton and O. Thomas,
have continued to be published.
The Mammals presented by the Trustees of the Will of the late
James Rowland Ward have already been enumerated (p. 57).
Several of the more interesting animals which have died in the
Gardens of the Zoological Society have been presented by the
Society.
Various friends of the Museum engaged in the war have sent
contributions obtained during the campaign, as follows :—
Two Lemmings (Lemmus lemmus) from the Murman Coast of
N.W. Russia. Presented by Capt. R. S. Gwatkin- Williams, RN.
A Souslik (Citellus citellus) from Salonika. Presented by Capt.
HS. Hollis.
A Rodent Mole (Spalax) from Salonika ; presented by Capt.
Maleolm Burr ; and another from Lemnos, presented by Capt. H. M.
Warrender.
A Field Mouse (Apodemus sylvaticus) from Lemnos. Presented
by Viscount Ennismore.
Other accessions :—
Europe.
Three Wild Cats (Felis silvestris grampia) from Ross-shire.
Presented by Miss Firth.
An Albino Badger (Meles meles) from Surrey. Presented by
Lord Hylton.
11 British Bats and Shrews from the collection of the Rev. L.
Jenyns, including the types of four species described by him about
1837 ; received in exchange from the University Museum of
Zoology, Cambridge.
Parts of Cetacea stranded on the British Coasts during 1916,
including several specimens of much interest, and particularly :—
Part of the skull of a Cuvier’s Whale (Ziphius cavirostris)
from the Cornish Coast ;
The head of a White-sided Dolphin (Lagenorhynchus acutus)
from Co. Mayo ;
The flippers and other parts of a specially large Killer Whale
(Orcinus orca) from the Solway Firth ;
The head of a Sowerby’s Whale (Mesoplodon bidens) from
Lincolnshire ;
Part of the lower jaw, with uncut teeth, of a young Sperm
Whale (Physeter catodon) from Co. Galway. —
Presented by the Board of Trade.
The skeleton of the celebrated thoroughbred Horse “ Isinglass.”’
Presented by Capt. Dermot MeCalmont.
Cranium and portion of the face of a Romano-British skull, and
portions of a Human trunk-skeleton of the same period, found near
Grantham. Presented by C. J. Brown, Esq.
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Asia.
19 Mammals from Chih-li, N. China. Presented by J. D. La
Touche, Esq.
382 mammals collected during the Bombay Natural History
Society’s Mammal Survey of India, including 117 from Darjeeling
obtained by Messrs. R. 8. Lister & H. Stevens, with the types of four
new species, one of these forming a new genus (Dacnomys) ; 89 from
the Bhutan Duars, collected by N. A. Baptista ; 31 Jackals and 56
specimens of Scotophilus from various localities ; and 89 specimens
from the Chin Hills, contributed by J. V. D. Mackenzie, Esq.
Presented by the Bombay Natural History Society.
2 skulls of Porcupines, 11 Muride, and 57 Bats from Sumatra
and the Malay Peninsula, including the types of three new species.
Presented by the Government of the Federated Malay States, through
H. C. Robinson, Esq., Director of Museums, Kuala Lumpur.
2 Molars of Elephas indicus. Presented by Mrs. R. F. Thorp.
Africa.
19 Mammals from British East Africa. Presented by C. W.
Mackworth Praed, Esq.
20 Mammals from Angola, including the typical head and
horns of the Angolan Sable (Hippotragus niger variant). Presented
by H. F. Varian, Esq.
20 skulls of Monkeys, Carnivora and Ungulates from Northern
Rhodesia. Presented by Hereward C. Dollman, Esq.
America, North.
The skeletons of a male and female Musk Ox (Ovibos moschatus).
Presented by Lady Strathcona and Mount Royal.
America, South.
58 Mammals from Cordova and 95 from Bonifacio, Buenos
Ayres, collected by Robin Kemp. Presented by Oldfield Thomas,
Esq. ies:
A skull, and portions of the trunk-skeleton, of a “ Bolivian
Indian” from Argentina. Presented by Wilfred Smithers, Esq.
The skulls of two Indians from Peru. Presented by C. E. R.
Rowlands, Esq.
AVES.
The acquisitions number 9,466. Of these the most noteworthy
are as follows :—
Europe.
A restoration of the Great Auk (Plautus impennis). Presented
by the Trustees of the late James Rowland Ward.
261 birds from various localities in Europe. Presented by A. L.
Butler, Hsq.
3 Carrion Crows (Corvus corone) from Berwickshire. Presented
by Miss D. M. A. Bate.
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A short-eared Owl (Asio accipitrinus) from King’s Co., Ireland.
Presented by R. McCombe, Esq.
A little Owl (Athene noctua) from Tonbridge. Presented by the
Rev. J. H. Hale.
A Red-legged Partridge (Caccabis rufa) from Pershore, Worces-
tershire. Presented by Col. A. C. Bailward.
A little Auk (Alcea alle) from Perth. Presented by G.
Brooksbank, Esq.
Asia,
10 Hggs of the Mikado Pheasant (Calophasis mikado). Presented
by the Duke of Bedford, K.G.
1,077 birds and 380 eggs from Siam. Presented by E. G.
Herbert, Esq.
906 eggs of birds from Hastern China. Presented by J. D. La
Touche, Esq.
293 birds, chiefly from India and Ceylon. Presented by A. L.
Butler, Esq.
Africa.
713 birds from various localities, chiefly the Sudan, including
the types of three newly-described species. Presented by A. L.
Butler, Esq.
1,315 birds from British Hast Africa and Uganda, including
two types of newly-described forms. Presented by Capt. G. P.
Cosens.
590 eggs of birds from the Cameroons. Presented by G. L. Bates,
Esq. |
98 birds from the Cameroons, collected by G. L. Bates, Esq.
Received in exchange.
America, South.
Two examples of the Great Snipe (Gallinago gigantea), from
Paraguay. Presented by the Trustees of the late James Rowland
Ward. .
20 eggs and four nests of birds from Western Heuador.
Presented by W. Goodfellow, Esq.
89 birds from Western Ecuador, including the types of five new
species. Presented by E. J. Brook, Esq.:
Australasia.
1,529 birds, 38 eggs, and 13 nests, including nine types of newly-
described species, from Dutch New Guinea. Presented by the
Subscribers to the British Ornithologists’ Union Expedition to Dutch
New Guinea.
A mounted example of Keysser’s Cassowary (Casuarius keyssert)
from the Rawlinson Mountains, N.H. New Guinea. Presented by
Lord Rothschild, F.RS.
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66 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
REPTILIA.
The additions number 232, of which 223° were received by
presentation and 9 by exchange.
Principal additions :—
Europe.
A Leathery Turtle (Dermochelys coriacea) caught in the vicinity
of the Scilly Islands, June 16th. Presented by the Admiralty.
14 lizards from Se ayeues) Presented by W. Morton, Esq.
19 lizards from France. Presented by M. Chabanaud.
14 lizards from Marseilles. Presented by Prof. A. Vayssiére.
Asia.
8 specimens from Saghalien Island and Japan. Received in
exchange from Prof. 8. Hatta.
20 specimens from Chih-fung, N.E. Chih-li, China, including
a new snake (Coluber anomalus). Presented by A. L. Hall, Esq.
A lizard (Tachydromus dorsalis) from the Loo Choo Islands, new
to the collection. Received in exchange from the United States
National Museum.
50 specimens from Siam, including examples of a lizard
(Gymnodactylus oldhamt) and two snakes ( 7ropidonotus inas, Thal-
assophis anomalus) new to the collection. Presented by Dr. Malcolm
Smith.
Africa.
14 specimens from Southern Abyssinia. Presented by A. F.
Abercromby, Esq.
15 specimens from Southern Nigeria. Presented by C. A.
Francis, Esq.
A Blind Snake (7yphlops cecatus), from West Africa, new to the
collection. Presented by the East Africa and Uganda Natural
History Society.
6 lizards from South Africa, including a syntype of a new species
(Eremias aspera). Presented by the South African Museum.
10 lizards from Kimberley. Presented by J. H. Power, Esq.
America, North.
A Terrapin (Chrysemys mobiliensis), new to the collection, and
the type of a new Horned Lizard (Phrynosoma brevicornis). Pre-
sented by the Zoological Society of London.
America, South.
22 specimens from South-West Colombia. Presented by Dr.
H. G. F. Spurrell.
5 specimens from Western Ecuador. Presented by W. Good-
fellow, Esq.
A specimen of a rare lizard (Tupinambis rufescens), from
Argentina. Presented by the Zoological Society of London.
DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY. 67
BATRACHIA.
The additions number 204, of which 193 were received’ by
presentation and 11 by exchange.
Principal additions :—
Asia.
11 specimens from Japan. Received in exchange from Prof. 8.
Hatta.
80 specimens from Siam, including the very rare Glyphoglossus
molossus. Presented by Dr. Malcolm Smith.
Africa.
51 specimens from British East Africa, including a frog (Rappia
balfouri), new to the collection. Presented by H. J. Allen Turner,
Eisq.
9 specimens from Nairobi. Presented by the East Africa and
Uganda Natural History Society.
4 Cecilians from South Cameroon. Presented by G. L. Bates,
Esq.
An example of a rare frog (Heleophryne regis) from Knysna,
Cape Colony. Presented by the South African Museum.
America, North.
Examples of the recently discovered salamander, Batrachoseps
major, from California. Presented by Dr. C. L. Camp.
America, South.
21 specimens from Colombia, including 10 syntypes of a new toad,
Atelopus carrilsert. Presented by Dr. A. G. Ruthven.
19 specimens from South-West Colombia. Presented by Dr.
A. G. F. Spurrell.
Examples of the rare aquatic Cecilian, Typhlonectes compressi-
cauda, from Manaos, Brazil. Presented by A. Aiken Clark, Esq.
PIscEs.
The additions number 587. 545 were presented, 25 were pur-
chased, and 17 were received in exchange. ‘
The most important are :—
A collection of otoliths, mounted on slides. Presented by E.
Heron-Allen, Esq.
211 larval and post-larval fishes from the “ Terra Nova ”’ collec-
tion, including the types of five new species (Paraliparis terrae-novae,
Lampanyctus longipinnis, Stylophthalmus macrenteron, Leptocephalus
acuticeps and L. hexastigma. Presented by the British Antarctic
Expedition, 1910.
Kurope.
A large Sun-fish (Orthagoriscus mola) from off the 8S. of Ireland.
Presented by Messrs. W. Howlett.
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A very rare fish (Centrolophus britannicus), from off the S. of
Ireland. Presented by J. Pryor, Esq.
A rare Ray (Raia undulata), from Plymouth ; purchased.
70 Parr of the Salmon (Salmo salar) from the Wye, illustrating
the growth of the species in fresh water. Presented by J. A. Hutton,
Esq.
on large Tench (Tinca tinca), from Gatton Park, Surrey. Pre-
sented by F. R. Graham, Esq.
Three large Dace (Leuciscus leuciscus), from the Kennet. Pre-
sented by F. Barker, Esq.
Asia.
Four fishes from Japan, including examples of two species new to
the collection (Dactylopterus petersent and Callionymus altivelis).
Presented by Colonel C. E. Shepherd.
Africa.
47 fishes from Durban, Natal, including specimens of Anthias -
squamipinnis and A. manadensis, species new to the collection. Pre-
sented by Romer Robinson, Esq., and H. W. Bell Marley, Esq.
29 fishes from the Benue River, including the type of a new
Barbel (Barbus francisct). Presented by A. Claude Francis, Esq.
14 fishes from San Thomé. Presented by Dr. J. A. Henriques.
A Horse-fish (Agnopus torvus) from South Africa. Presented by
W. Hart, Esq.
24 fishes from British Hast Africa, including the types of three
new Cyprinids (Labeo gracilis, Barbus procatopus and B. loveridgit.
Presented by the East Africa and Uganda Natural History Society.
America.
14 fishes from the San Juan River, Colombia. Presented by
Dr. H. G. F. Spurrell.
19 fishes from Manaos, including a Cat-fish (Piratinga filamentosa),
new to the collection. Presented by Dr. A. Aitken Clark.
The type of a new Loricariid (Arges mindoensis), from Ecuador.
Presented by W. Goodfellow, Esq. |
15 fishes of the genus Arges, from Ecuador and Colombia.
‘Received in exchange from Prof. C. H. Higenmann.
TUNICATA.
Nine specimens of the rare, deep-sea, stalked Simple Ascidian,
Culeolus murrayi Herdman, in various stages of growth (only one
specimen, the type, had been previously known). Attached to a
cable brought up from 1,500 fathoms between Java and West.
Australia. Presented by the Hastern and Associated Telegraph
Compantes.
Mo.uuusca.
45 specimens were presented, and 24 were purchased during the
year. The more noteworthy are :—
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_ 14 land-shells, from the Oriental Region. Presented by G. K.
Gude, Esq.
23 land-shells, from the same Region. Purchased.
9 land-shells, from the Abor Hills. Presented by the Indian
Museum, Calcutta.
9 British Slugs. Presented by W. Denison Roebuck, Esq.
A Pecten (Pecten (Chlamys) scabricostatus, Sowb.), from Da
Costa’s collection. Presented by G. B. Sowerby, Esq.
A remarkably fine group of Vermetidee (Vermiculus spiratus),
from Bermuda. Presented by John P. Bartram, Esq.
MyRIopopDa.
The accessions numbered 17, including the syntypes of a Huropean
Bristly Millipede (Lophoproctus inferus). Presented by Prof. F.
Silvestrt. :
ARACHNIDA.
The acquisitions numbered 435, the following being especially
noteworthy :—
The types of a new Solpuga (S. toppini), from Zululand. Pre-
sented by EE. C. Chubb, Esq.
63 Pseudoscorpions, from 8. Africa, representing 14 different
species, most of which are new to the collection. Presented by
Robert Godfrey, Esq.
55 slides of British Water-Mites (Hydrachnide), mounted by
W. Saville Kent, Esq. Presented by A. S. Hirst, Esq.
A specimen of Limulus, from Kuching River, Sarawak, Borneo,
having the telson bifurcated. Presented by Philip Schidrowitz, Esq.,
aD, FCS.
CRUSTACEA.
The most important addition made during the year was the col-
lection presented by Mr. A. O. Walker, consisting of Amphipoda,
Isopoda, and other Crustacea, chiefly from British seas, the Mediter-
ranean, and the Indian Ocean. The extent of this collection, which
contains many types and other specimens described by the donor,
cannot be precisely stated until it has been properly arranged, but it
is contained in over 650 bottles and tubes, and comprises also about
4() microscopic preparations. The other accessions number 379, and
include :— ©
89 specimens taken from Telegraph cables in the West Indies,
the Mediterranean, and the Malay Archipelago. Presented by the:
Eastern and Associated Telegraph Companies.
49 River-crabs and prawns, from Sierra Leone. Presented by NV.
W. Thomas, Esq.
144 Amphipoda and Isopoda, from South Africa, including syn-
types of 17 species. Presented by K. H. Barnard, Esq.
16 Crustacea, from the Mawson Antarctic Expedition, including
the holotype of one species, and paratypes of another.. Presented by
Prof. W. A. Haswell, F.R.S.
70 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
Syntypes of three species of Decapoda, from the Red Sea.
Presented by Prof. W. A. Herdman, F.R.S.
ECHINODERMA.
The Eastern and Associated Telegraph Companies have again
presented interesting specimens from deep water, most of which
have been determined.
’' Worms.
The most important acquisition in this part of the collection is
the series of Rotifera and other microscopic organisms, mostly from
fresh water, collected, mounted, and presented by Mr. C. F. Rousselet.
The collection consists of more than 1,000 slides of Rotifera, with a
few Gastrotricha, the Polyzoa noticed below, and other slides and
tubes. The specimens are admirably preserved, and the slides are
mounted with great skill.
Other noteworthy additions are as follows :—
A specimen of the rare Marionina georgiana, from the Falkland
Islands. Presented by Dr. J. H. Ashworth, F.R.S.
Small collections of parasitic worms made by Mr. G. E. Bodkin
in British Guiana, and by Dr. W. M. Aders in Zanzibar. Presented
by the Imperial Bureau of Entomology.
3 species of parasitic worms, &c., including types. Presented by
Dr. J. H. Ashworth, F.R.S.
Specimens of Bilharzia or Schistosoma, producing the formidable
disease Bilharziosis, from Egypt. Presented by Major E. E. Austen.
Specimens of the Land-Planarian, Rhynchodemus terrestris, and
their egg-capsules, from Oswestry. Collected and presented by Capt.
HM. Quick, AM CSL.
ANTHOZOA.
The only specimens obtained during the year have been a few
collected in deep water. Presented by the Eastern and Associated
Telegraph Companies.
PoLyzoa.
109 specimens, comprising a duplicate set, including many
paratypes, of the species of Polyzoa described in “The Polyzoa
of the ‘Siboga’ Expedition,” Part I, “ Entoprocta, Ctenostomata
and Cyclostomata,” by S. F. Harmer. Presented by Prof. Dr.
Max Weber.
8 specimens of Polyzoa, including two types and four other
figured specimens described or referred to in Dr. Harmer’s “ Siboga ”
Report. Presented by the University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge.
178 specimens of Polyzoa, mostly fresh-water, including
numerous examples beautifully preserved and mounted, with tentacles
extended. Presented by C. F. Rousselet, Esq.
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Hypbr0zoa.
1 specimen of the deep-sea Siphonophoran, Pterophysa studeri,
Lens and Riemsdijk ; found adhering to a cable brought up from
800 fathoms between Java and W. Australia. Presented by the
Eastern and Associated Telegraph Companies.
PORIFERA (SPONGES).
15 specimens of the deep-sea Monaxonellid Sponge Lsperella
biserialis, Ridley and Dendy, growing on a cable brought up from
1,500 fathoms between Java and W. Australia. Presented by the
Eastern and Associated Telegraph Companies.
PROTOZOA. :
18,000 specimens of Foraminifera belonging to the genus Lagena,
from the South West Pacific, known as the “ W. B. Thornhill
Collection.” The collection was bequeathed to H. Sidebottom, Esq.,
who completed the sorting and mounting of the material, and
described the species in the Journal of the Quekett Microscopical
Club (1912-13). Presented by H. Sidebottom, Esq.
~Summary of the Acquisitions in the Department of Zoology
during 1916.
—— Donations. | Purchases. | Exchanges.| Totals.
General Collection at 851 36 14 901
Osteological Collection :—
Mammalia Anthropology ... ays 5 = = 5
Cetacea ane Bae 11 — —- 11
Other Mammals ch 2 5 — = 5
Skins Tiedt cee ater Wit BOG 100 es 5,606
, Hegs ... dad ine li 3,829 4 — 3,833
MN). ON) 17 it Bs 17
Skeletons ae ee Ae 10 — — 10
Domesticated Animals... cee 2b 9 = — 9
Reptilia ... bee sia eee BRE 223 — 9 232
Batrachia 2h at. se Lap 193 — 11 204
Pisces... das eas net ip 545 25 17 587
Tunicata... wee Ae ists ae 9 — — 9
Hermichordata and Phoronidea ae8 1 — —_ 1
Mollusca... nee ae wide ay 45 24 — 69
Myriopoda i eas ate oe 17 —_ — iz
Prototracheata ... see ae ee — —— = =
Arachnida he ae aA EES 435 — — 435
Walker Collection
Crustacea (approximate) 700 — "et 1.079
Other sources... a4 375 — 4 1
Pycnogonida ... as was aes = = a= =
Echinoderma ... ws ee 3 16 — — 16
Cheetopoda, &e. at a 3 = Ts 3
Worms { Bee sikic Worms aan aaa 137 — — 137
Rotifera, &c. ... ip aah Pre 1,000 — — . 1,000
Brachiopoda ... aes 566 see =F a = ae
Polyzoa ... Spe ane 3 ae 302 — = 302
Anthozoa ae at Be nes 9 <= = 9
Hydrozoa bee ts wae wae We — — 17
Porifera ... fe, AY Le cae 17 = = 17
Protozoa ... a. Bee eH hog SOO — — 18,009
Sea-bottom samples .... tah se 9 a aa 9
Totals es hon Be BOD | 189 565 32,549
712 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
VI.— Economic Zoology.
I. Information relating to various matters connected with the War
has been given to Government Departments.
II. MammMaAttia.
The question of Whaling in Sub-Antarctic waters has continued
to engage much attention. A large body of statistics bearing on
this subject has been analysed, and the results have been forwarded
to the Colonial Office.
Reports have also been sent to the Colonial Office on other
subjects connected with South Georgia, namely the pursuit of
Hlephant Seals, and the acclimatization of Reindeer and other
animals in that Island.
Correspondence has passed between the Department and Mr. W.
Hamar Greenwood, with reference to the protection of Pacific
Sea-Lions. .
II. Avzs.
A large number of enquiries relating to the protection of Birds
in British Colonies and Protectorates have been dealt with, in
response to applications from the Colonial Office. Some of these
enquiries have included subsidiary references to Mammals, Reptiles,
and Fishes.
IV. Pisces.
_ Considerable progress has been made with the revision and
re-arrangement of the collection of Clupeide.
A memoir dealing with the genera Clupea, Sardina and Alosa
has been published ; and further papers are in the press and in
course of preparation.
Among the enquiries answered and specimens determined may
be mentioned :—
Further questions from the Colonial Office on the subject of
poisonous fishes in the West Indies.
Fragments of ‘“ Indian Sardines” received from the Board of
Agriculture and Fisheries; species determined as Sardinella
longiceps.
V. Aracunipa (Ticks, Mirss, Erc.).
The following enquiries have been dealt with :—
1. A Sarcoptid Mite (Ogee rertes mutans) causing ‘‘Scaly
leg” in poultry.
2. A tropical Fowl-mite (Liponyssus bursa) occurring in Australia
and attacking human beings.
3. Parasitic Mange in horses, caused by various species of
Acari ; advice on this subject has been given to the Veterinary
Service (Territorial).
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4. A parasitic Mite (Chorioptes ovis) affecting the feet of
English Sheep. |
5. A Mite (Zyroglyphus longior, var.) destroying stored corn in
Colombia.
6. Tyroglyphid Mites damaging stored oats in Flanders ;
information given to the Military authorities.
7. Several enquiries referring to the Furniture Mite (Glycy-
phagus domesticus), infesting houses.
VI. CRUSTACEA.
At the request of the London Chamber of Commence, an investi-
gation was made of certain brands of tinned “ Lobster,” and it was
demonstrated to the satisfaction of representatives of the firms
engaged in the trade that the contents of the tins were the leg-
muscles of a Japanese crab, Paralithodes camtschatica.
Boring Crustacea (Limnoria and Chelura) have been determined
as causing damage to submarine telegraph-cables in the Mediter- _
ranean, and measures have been suggested for preventing their
attacks.
Young crabs (Callinectes, sp.) found preying on mosquito larvee
in West Africa have been determined for the Imperial Bureau of
Hntomology.
Information has been given to the manufacturers of anti-fouling
composition regarding the fouling of ships by barnacles, and to
other visitors and correspondents with reference to damage done by
Woodlice.
VII. Portrera.
The question of the cultivation of commercial Sponges in the
West Indies has been reported on for the Colonial Office.
VIII. MiscknLanrous QUESTIONS.
Injuries to Submarine Telegraph cables due to various animals,
such as Fishes, Crustacea and Polychzte Worms, have been
- examined and reported on.
A series of specimens illustrating the “ Biology of Waterworks”
has been assembled and will shortly be exhibited in the Central
Hall; and an illustrated Guide to the series is in course of
preparation.
VIl.— Students and Visitors.
The number of visits paid to the Zoological Department during
the year 1916 by students and other persons requiring assistance
or information amounted to 7,018.
This number includes the visits paid by Students holding tickets
entitling them to do special work in the Exhibition Galleries.
74 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
In the 10 previous years the numbers were as follows. From
1906 to 1912 inclusive, the present Department of Entomology was
included in the Department of Zoology :—
8,020 in the year 1915.
O27 ao us 1914.
9,982 i 1913.
12,564 x 1912.
12,175 a 1911.
12,443 0 1910.
11,461 ‘s 1909.
10,220 a 1908.
11,043 3 1907.
10,813 hi 1906.
Sidney F. Harmer.
DEPARTMENT OF ENTOMOLOGY. 75
DEPARTMENT OF ENTOMOLOGY.
I.—Arrangement and Conservation.
Exhibition Series—No change of importance either by additions
or alterations has been made in this series during the year.
Study Series—Owing to the services rendered by voluntary
workers, the progress made in the naming and arrangement of the
collections has been greater than could have been anticipated in view
of the loss sustained by the death in March of Mr. G. Meade Waldo,
Assistant in charge of the Hymenoptera, and the absence on War
Service of so many other members of the Staff of the Department.
In the Coleoptera, the undetermined Carabide of many Oriental
genera have been incorporated and arranged after determination by
Mr. H. EH. Andrewes. Rhynchophora of various groups have been
similarly dealt with after having been submitted to Prof. A. Hustache
and Mr. Arthur Lea and named by those specialists. The Hawaian
Nitidulidee have been incorporated ; and numerous undetermined
Cryptophagide have been named or described by Monsieur Grouvelle.
The Endomychide have been expanded and revised and many new
species described. A large number of new species of Rutelinze and
Melolonthinze have also been described. The family Meloide has
been in great part revised and the accessions incorporated. The
Australian species of Alleculidze have been reincorporated in the
collection after determination by Mr. H. J. Carter. The Bruchide .
have been revised and re-arranged and the accessions incorporated.
By the kind permission of Mr. Godman, Mr. G. C. Champion
has continued to work upon the collections of Coleoptera and in
the course of the year has arranged the Heteromera of the families
Melandryide, Scraptiidee, Xylophilide, and Pedilidze as well as
part of the Lagriidze, and has described many new species.
In the Hymenoptera the arrangement of the Apidee was continued
and completed. The Rev. F. D. Morice, who has voluntarily devoted
almost the whole of his time to the work, has arranged the British
Aculeates and incorporated the Saunders Collection. Mr. Rowland
Turner has continued to give his services voluntarily as in previous
years, and has completed the arrangement of the Psammocharide,
while Mr. H. St. J. Donisthorpe, another voluntary worker, has
arranged the Formicide of the Palearctic region. Several small
collections sent to him on loan have been named by Prof. T. A.
Cockerell. Mr. J. Waterston, of the Imperial Bureau of Entomology,
has continued his work in determining and arranging the economi-
eally very important parasitic Hymenoptera of the family Chalci-
didee.
In the Rhynchota the revision and re-arrangement of the
Membracide have been completed so far as the Oriental and
Aithiopian regions are represented, and accessions from the Distant
76 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
collection and other sources have been incorporated. Progress has
also been made in working out some large collections of Homoptera
received from various sources in India and from Indo-China.
The work of mounting Coccide and Aphide on slides, thus
making them more valuable for the purpose of study, and the in-
corporation of accessions in these important economic groups have
been continued.
The arrangement of the Anoplura and Mallophaga has been
continued, and two parts of a long report on a fine collection of these
insects received from the Zoological Society have been published
with illustrations in the Society’s ‘* Proceedings.”
In the Lepidoptera, the re-arrangement of the Pyralide of the
sub-families Hydrocampinze, Scoparianze, and Gallerianze has been
completed and that of the Crambinz commenced. The preparation
of the MS. dealing with the Noctuinz for the Catalogue of Moths
has been continued and completed, and the MS. is now about
equivalent in extent to that of three published volumes,
In the Tineina, the determination and incorporation of species
belonging to the Gelechiade, Aigeriade, Hyponomeutide, Tortricide,
and Hepialidee have been continued, and some new forms have been
described.
In the Diptera, the arrangement of the exotic Tipulide has been
continued and completed, and accessions have been incorporated ;
the collection of flies made by the Robinson-Kloss Expedition to
West Sumatra has been worked out and a report on it prepared for
publication. Several collections of mosquitoes have been deter-
mined ; and a pamphlet on ‘“ Mosquitoes in Relation to Disease ”
has been published in the Economic Series.
IMPERIAL BuREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY.
The work carried on by the Imperial Bureau of Entomology has
continued to be of considerable benefit to the Department of
Entomology ; a large number of accessions has been received
through that source, and as many of these accessions had been
worked out and in some cases contained a good proportion of types,
they formed a valuable addition to the Museum collection.
Il.— Duplicates and Exchanges.
(a) Duplicates.
Duplicates have been presented to the following gentlemen who
have rendered service by naming specimens :—Mr. H. H. Andrewes,
M. Antoine Grouvelle, Prof. A. Hustache, and Mr. L. B. Prout.
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(b) Eachanges.
Exchanges have been made with the following :—M. A.
Grouvelle, Dr. E. W. Ferguson, Mr. O. E. Janson, Prof. N.
Sacharov, Mr. T. V. Sherrin, and Mr. H. G. T. Watkins.
III.— Departmental Library.
As the Library has continued to be worked in conjunction with
that of the Zoological Department, particulars in reference to it
will be found included under the corresponding head, in the return
' made by the Keeper of Zoology.
LV.— Publications.
In addition to the official publications issued by the Trustees
(see pp. 53, 54) several papers and reports have been prepared in
connection with different branches of the collection and have been
published in scientific journals.
V.— Acquisitions.
The number of specimens added to the Insect Collection during
the year is 40,124, made up as shown in the following table :—
Donations. | Purchases. | Exchanges. Totals.
Coleoptera... te an 12,233 2,000 1,273 15,506
Lepidoptera ore sae 6,436 — 4 6,440
Hymenoptera... as 3,554 — 12 3,566
Diptera... “Oe aes 6,843 = 26 6,869
Rhynchota... ae Ate 2,694 3,000 42 5,736
Orthoptera ae 3 633 — 5 638
Neuroptera hs we 176 — — 176
Other Orders... iP 595 = — 595
Larve, Pupe, &c. ae 598 — — 598
Totals as VF 33,762 5,000 1,362 40,124
The most important of these accessions are the following from
various localities :—
12,565 insects of all orders including types of 131 new species.
Presented by the Imperial Bureau of Entomology.
The sixth instalment of the Distant Collection containing 3,000
specimens of Rhynchota and 2,000 specimens of Coleoptera.
Europe.
3,786 named British Diptera. Presented by Lieut.-Col. J. W.
Yerbury.
1,743 Coleoptera and Rhynchota. Presented by H. B. Preston,
Esq.
78 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
1,041 Coleoptera from South Russia ; received in exchange from
Prof. N. Sacharov.
Asia.
5,000 Coleoptera from Sikkim collected by Mr. H. Stevens.
Presented by H. E. Andrewes, Esq.
667 Coleoptera from Ceylon. Presented by E. E. Green, Esq.
Africa.
270 Thysanura and Collembola from the Seychelles. Presented:
by Prof. J. Stanley Gardiner, F.R.S.
Australia.
937 Hymenoptera from North Queensland. Presented by R. E..
Turner, Esq.
America.
4,139 Lepidoptera Rhopalocera, including 91 types. Presented
by F. Du Cane Godman, Esq., D.C.L., FBS.
VI.— Economic Entomology.
The work of the Department in Economic Entomology has been:
carried on by members of the staff with the assistance of Mr. C. A.
EHaland, whose services as a specialist in that branch were again
engaged during the year.
Further large accessions of material presented for the most part
by the Imperial Bureau of Entomology, have been incorporated in
the Economic Series, and considerable additions have been made-
to the card index of injurious insects.
The naming and arranging of families and groups of insects of
more than ordinary economic importance, such as the Aphid and
Coccide amongst the Rhynchota, and the Bruchids amongst the-
Coleoptera, have received special attention, and have made a fair
amount of progress. -
As a result of a correspondence in the Press on the question of
hibernation of the common house-fly (Musca domestica) large numbers
of flies found in houses in various parts of the United .Kingdom.
during the first three months of the year were received at the.
Museum. These flies have all been examined and identified, and it
has been found that in the consignments from more than 160
different persons, the common house-fly was present in only 18,
the total number of specimens of this species (JZ. domestica) received
being 32, most of which had been captured in kitchens or other
warm rooms, and while in a more or less active condition. The
evidence thus obtained gave no support whatever to the idea that
the common house-fly passes through the winter as a rule in the
adult stage. In contrast with the very small proportion of true.
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house-flies received, was the great preponderance of Pollenia rudis,
a species known as the cluster-fly. This species was present in 103
out of the 160 consignments, and the specimens received, although
stated in most cases to be only a few samples of the kinds found,
reached to some thousands in number. In several houses, the
cluster-fly was hibernating in such vast numbers as to become a
serious nuisance, and many requests for information on the best
means of getting rid of them were received. Next in point of
numbers to the cluster-flies, and frequently associated with them
in the same hibernating swarms, were the two species, Limnophora
septemnotata and Musca autumnalis. Flies found hibernating under
the roofs of churches were found in a. few cases to consist chiefly of
the latter species.
Enquiries on other matters of importance from an economic
point of view have continued to come in both from this country and
abroad, including Government and Colonial Departments. Amongst
the subjects on which information or advice has been sought and as
far as possible given the following may be mentioned :—
DreteraA (FLIEs).
(1) House-flies. Several enquiries.
(2) Gnats and biting-flies and how to prevent their attacks.
(3) Measures to ee in regard to infestations of fleas, and
possible origin of the pest.
(4) Warble-flies on cattle and deer.
(5) Larve of Eristalis evacuated per rectum by a soldier.
CoLEOPTERA (BEETLES).
(6) Species of Anobium destroying books and furniture.
(7) a Lyctus injurious to panelling, furniture, and
imported woods.
(8) Dinoderus japonicus damaging bamboo poles.
(9) Tribolium confusum, Necrobia rufipes, &c., as pests in ware-
houses and factories (from Public Health Department,
Glasgow).
(10) Bruchus chinensis, infesting peas (from the Admiralty).
(11) Areocerus fasciculatus destroying cocoa beans.
(12) Ptinus tectus feeding on red pepper.
(13) Carpophilus hemipterus in dried figs.
(14) Rhizotrogus solstitialis and Phyllopertha horticola as garden
pests.
Lepipoprera (Morus).
(15) Anaphe spp. The commercial possibilities of silk manu-
facture from their cocoons.
(16) Gazalina sp. Defoliating forests in Burma (from Chief
Conservator of Forests, Burma).
(17) Teentocampa gothica. Defoliating oaks in the Isle of Wight.
80 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
MIscELLANEOUS.
(18) Bed-bugs infesting houses and a ship.
(19) Cecilius pedicularis swarming in macaroni.
(20) Cockroaches and methods of getting rid of them.
(21) Ants in houses. '
(22) Lepisma saccharina as a food pest.
VII.—Students and Visitors.
The number of visits paid to the department during the year by
students and other persons seeking information or assistance was
3,149.
C. J. Gahan.
DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY. 81
DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY.
I.— Arrangement and Conservation.
Mammalia (Galleries 1 and 2).—The collection of Lower Pliocene
mammalian remains from Pikermi, Greece, has been examined in
detail, and duplicates have been removed from it. The whole
collection has now been registered and incorporated. Skulls, jaws,
and limb-bones of Rhinoceros have been mounted and labelled for
exhibition in pier-case 8, and skulls and frontlets of Antelopes have
been similarly mounted and labelled in pier-case 16.
Feet of the primitive rhinoceros Hyracodon, from the Oligocene
of Dakota, U.S.A., have been mounted and exhibited in _table-
case 4.
A fine pair of Antlers of Cervus belgrandi (C. verticornis), from
the Forest Bed of Pakefield, Norfolk, has been restored and mounted
on the top of pier-case 13.
The first stages in the preparation of the skeleton of Hlephas
antiquus from Chatham have been completed, and a selection of the
bones has been placed on exhibition in pier-case 31.
Number of specimens of Mammalia registered, 787.
Aves (Gallery 2).—The original specimen of Archwopteryx has
been further prepared, the right coracoid and the two pubes being
now completely exposed.
The sternum of the largest known bird of flight (Gigantornis
eaglesomet), from the Eocene of Southern Nigeria, has been prepared
and mounted in table-case 13.
A slab of footprints of Dinornis has been prepared and placed
in wall-case 23.
The miscellaneous Huropean Pleistocene remains of birds in
drawers have been arranged and labelled.
Number of specimens of Aves registered, 430.
Reptilia and Batrachia (Galleries, 3, 4, 5, 11).—Progress has
been made with the preparation of Triassic Reptiles from South
Africa and Cretaceous Reptiles from Alberta, Canada.
A skull of the horned dinosaurian Monoclonius, from the
Cretaceous of Alberta, has been mounted, with a cast of its brain-
cavity, in wall-case 5.
The unexhibited collection of Coprolites and remains of
Mosasaurians in the drawers have been arranged and _ labelled.
Miscellaneous other unexhibited specimens have also been labelled.
Wall-cases 10 and 11 have been reconstructed to admit large
specimens of Amphibia and Anomodont Reptiles.
Number of specimens of Reptilia and Batrachia registered, 78.
Pisces (Gallery 6).—The fossil fishes contained in the Geological
Society’s Collection have been registered, labelled, and incorporated.
Several specimens of CLepidotus have been prepared and
mounted for exhibition in wall-case 9, and numerous slabs of fossil
fishes have been mounted in mahogany frames.
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82 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
Wall-case 148, containing specimens of Aspidorhynchus, has
been cleaned and repainted.
Number of specimens of Pisces registered, 341.
Mollusca (Galleries 7 and 8, and Workroom).—The Cephalopoda
registered, labelled and incorporated include :—Upper Ordovician
Nautiloidea from Wales (T. Ruddy coll.) ; Devonian specimens from
Belgium (A. Champernowne coll.) ; English Liassic Ammonoidea
(J. F. Blake, Lieut. Dan Haggard, and W. D. Lang colls.) ;
Callovian Ammonoidea from France (A. de Grossouvre coll.) ;
Oxfordian Ammonoidea from the neighbourhood of Peterborough
(E. T. Leeds coll.) ; Upper Cretaceous Nautiloidea from Denmark
(Miss C. Birley coll.) ; Upper Cretaceous Ammonoidea from Natal
(Natal Government, per Sir Frederick Abel, Bart.) ; Cretaceous
Ammonoidea from Canada (W. E. Cutler coll.) ; Cretaceous
Belemnoidea from New Zealand (Prof. James Park coll.) ; and
Cretaceous Ammonoidea and Tertiary Nautiloidea from Portuguese
East Africa (EH. O. Thiele and R. C. Wilson coll.).
All the Jurassic and Cretaceous Ammonoidea previously exhibited
in table-cases 5 to 15 have been so re-arranged that the British
Jurassic specimens now occupy table-cases 5 to 8; the Foreign
Jurassic examples, table-cases 9 and 10 (in part); the British
Cretaceous Ammonoidea, table-cases 10 (in part), 11, 12 and 13
(in part) ; and the Foreign Cretaceous specimens, table-cases 13
(in part), 14 and 15.
The following Cephalopoda have been mounted, labelled, and
added to the exhibited collection :—An Ammonite from the
Kimeridge Clay (table-case 8), 5 Foreign Cretaceous Ammonites
(table-case 14), 39 Ammonoids from the Upper Cretaceous of
Zululand, North America, and Syria (table-case 15), 8 Cretaceous
Belemnoids from England, New Zealand, and New South Wales
(table-case 16), a specimen of Bostrychoceras polyplocum from the
Cretaceous of Westphalia (wall-case 3), the example of Ammoni-
toceras tovilense, from the Lower Greensand near Maidstone,
described by G. C. Crick, Proc. Malac. Soc., vol. xi1., parts 2 and 3,
1916, pp. 118-120, pl. vi. (wall-case 3), and an Ordovician
Nautiloid from China (wall-case 14).
The nomenclature of some of the Cretaceous Ammonoidea
exhibited in wall-cases 4 and 5, and in table-cases 12, 14 and 15,
has been revised.
Further progress has been made with the labelling of the selection
of British Liassic Ammonites prepared for exhibition.
The slip-catalogue of type, figured, and historical specimens of
Cephalopoda has been continued.
The Paleozoic Gastropoda and Lamellibranchia registered,
labelled, and mostly incorporated, include :— Devonian Gastropoda
from Devon (J. G. Hamling coll.) and the Hifel (Upfield Green
coll.) ; and Devonian Lamellibranchia from Devon (A. Champer-
nowne and J. G. Hamling colls.).
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The Mesozoic and Tertiary Gastropoda and Lamellibranchia
registered, labelled, and incorporated, include :—British Jurassic and
Cretaceous specimens (J. W. Butler coll.) ; Post-pliocene marine
shells from Ayrshire (John Smith coll.) ; Tertiary Mollusca from
Australia (J. H. Young coll.) ; New Zealand Tertiary Mollusca
(Geological Survey of New Zealand) ; Cretaceous Mollusca from
Africa (Angola) (J. W. Gregory coll.), described by R. Bullen
Newton, Trans. Roy. Soc. Edinburgh, 1916, vol. li., part 3 (No. 15),
pp. 561-580, pls. 1., ii. ; and natural casts of British Lower Green-
sand (Aptian) Lamellibranchia (R. Broom coll.).
Number of Mollusca registered :—Cephalopoda, 947 ; Gastro-
poda, 294 ; Lamellibranchia, 494. Total, 1,735.
Arthropoda (Gallery 8 and Workroom).—The acquisitions
registered, labelled, and incorporated include :—Devonian and Car-
boniferous trilobites from Devonshire (J. G. Hamling coll.) ; various
groups from the Coal Measures of Coseley, Staffs. (8. Priest coll.) ;
and insects in amber and gum copal transferred from the Zoolopical
Department.
The large collection of Arthropods, mainly insects, from the
Bembridge beds of Gurnet Bay, has been sorted into Orders.
Number of specimens of Arthropoda registered, 1,148.
Echinoderma (Gallery 8).—The acquisitions registered, labelled,
and incorporated include :—Ashgillian Cystoids from the Take
District (Marr coll.) ; Silurian (Siephanoorinils from Canada and
Tennessee (Parks and Foerste colls.) ; Crinoids from the Chouteau,
Keokuk, and St. Louis Limestones of Missouri, Illinois, and Iowa
(Greger and Worthen colls.) ; from the Mesozoic rocks of England
(Méckler coll.) ; Blastoids from the Chouteau and Keokuk Lime-
stones of Missouri (Greger coll.) ; Echinoids from the Jurassic of
Dorset (J. W. Butler coll.) and the Tertiary of Portuguese East
Africa (Thiele and Wilson coll.) ; Asteroids from the Mesozoic of
England (Méckler coll.) and Bohemia (Fritsch coll.).
In the exhibited series the chief accessions are :—A Melocrinus
gregert (see Donations) and a Stereocidaris merceyi with apical
system in place. Various specimens from the Pliensbachian of
Mickleton tunnel have been re-mounted and re-labelled.
The collections of Aygaricocrinus and Dorycrinus from North
America, and of the Cidarids from the Hartwell Clay, have been
revised and relabelled.
The slip-catalogues of exhibited specimens, of specimens of
Blastoidea, and of genera and species of other Classes, have been
continued.
Number of specimens of Echinoderma registered :—LEchinoidea,
121; Stelliformia, 95 ; Crinoidea, 274 ; Blastoidea, 58 ; Cystoidea
and Edrioasteroidea, 24. Total, 572.
Annelida (Gallery 8 and Workroom).—The acquisitions regis-
tered, labelled, and incorporated jinclude specimens from the
84 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
Devonian and Carboniferous of Devonshire (Hamling coll.), the
Cornbrash of England (Blake coll.), and the Cretaceous of Angola
(J. W. Gregory coll.).
Number of specimens of Annelida registered, 39.
Brachiopoda (Gallery 8 and Workroom).—The acquisitions
registered, labelled, and incorporated include specimens from the
Silurian of England, the Devonian of England (R. H. Valpy coll.)
and Asia Minor, the Trias of New Zealand (T. W. Lillie coll.), and
the Tertiary of New Zealand (Geol. Surv. N. Zealand coll.) Many
type and figured specimens have been mounted, labelled, and placed
in the exhibition cases.
Number of specimens of Brachiopoda registered, 637.
Polyzoa (Gallery 8 and Workroom).—The acquisitions registered,
labelled, and incorporated include specimens from the Paleozoic of
the N. Shan States (Geol. Surv. India coll.), from the British
Devonian (J. G. Hamling coll.), the Carboniferous of Derbyshire
(Ff. A. Bather coll.), and the Chalk of Surrey and Sussex (Gamble,
Gaster, and Wright colls.)
Enlarged models of Cretaceous Polyzoa have been prepared and
exhibited in a table-case.
Number of specimens of Polyzoa registered, 250.
Anthozoa and Hydrozoa (Gallery 10 and Workroom).—The
acquisitions registered, labelled, and incorporated include specimens
from the Paleeozoic of the N. Shan States (Geol. Surv. India coll.)
and the Federated Malay States (J. B. Scrivenor coll.), from the
Devonian of the Hifel (R. I’. Tomes coll.) and Devonshire (J. G.
Hamling coll.), the Jurassic of India (J. F. Blake coll.), various
Cretaceous formations (J. E. Lee coll.), the Miocene of Burma
(Dalton coll.), and the Tertiary of Colombia, 8. America (Beeby
Thompson coll.).
Enlarged models showing the relations of the hard and soft parts
of Corals have been prepared and exhibited in wall-case 1.
Number of specimens of Anthozoa and Hydrozoa registered,
1,509.
Porifera and Protozoa (Gallery 10).—<Among specimens
registered and incorporated are Foraminiferal rocks from the Eocene
of Burma (Dalton coll.)
Number of specimens of Porifera and Protozoa registered, 54.
Plante (Gallery 10).—The making of microscope sections of
Cretaceous petrified plants has been continued.
Number of specimens of Plante registered, 72.
Rock-specimens and Tracks (Gallery 11).—Acquisitions have been
incorporated.
Number of specimens registered, 29.
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I].—Duplicates and Exchanges.
Duplicate fossils have been presented to the Sedgwick Museum,
Cambridge, in return for services rendered to the Department of
Geology.
Exchanges of duplicate fossils and plaster casts have been made
with the Zoological Museum, Cambridge, and the Denstone College
Museum, Uttoxeter.
I1.— Departmental Library.
The additions to the Library which have been registered, stamped,
catalogued, and press-marked, comprise 116 new works and
pamphlets, of which 27 were purchased and 89 presented ; 452
parts of serials in progress, of which 114 were purchased and 338
presented. Nine sheets of maps were acquired by presentation.
Hight photographs were presented. 10 volumes and pamphlets were
obtained by transfer from other Departments. 100 volumes have
been bound, press-marked, and returned to the shelves. 446 British
Geological Survey maps were mounted on linen. 1,053 visits were
made to the Library by students and others.
LV .—Research and Publications.
Among researches in the department may be mentioned a detailed
study of the fossils of Trinidad made to facilitate the explorations for
oil-bearing deposits in that island.
21 papers have been contributed to scientific serials by members
of the staff and others working in the Department.
V.— Acquisitions.
A.—By Donation.
Among numerous donations the following may be enumerated :—
Mammalia, —One upper premolar and one astragalus of Palao-
therium, from the Barton Clay, Hampshire. HH. Eliot Walton, Esq.
Zeuglodont jaws from an Hocene formation in a cutting on the
Port Harcourt railway, Ombialla district, Southern Nigeria. Sv
John Eaglesome, K.C.M.G.
Twelve Mammalian remains from the Miocene Santa Cruz Beds
of Maquinchao, Argentina, including a skull and mandible of a
carnivorous Marsupial, Pharsophorus. T. C. Norris, Esq.
Fragment of antler of Cervus verticornis (C. belgrand) from the
Forest Bed, Pakefield ; being a portion of a specimen in the British
Museum. Committee, The Castle Museum, Norwich.
Portion of mandible and associated bones of Mastodon from the
Island of Imbros, Grecian Archipelago. Col. R. Girvin, R.A.MS.
Molar and tusk of a small elephant from an alluvial deposit in
the Mongbwalo Gold Mine, Ituri River, N. HE. Belgian Congo.
Monsieur Grégoire, Managing Engineer of the Mongbwalo Mines, per
Sir Alfred Sharpe, K.C.M.G.
86 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
Aves.—Sternum of a new bird ((rigantornis eaglesomer) from an
Hocene formation in a cutting on the Port Harcourt railway,
Ombialla district, Southern Nigeria. Str John Eaglesome, K.C.M.G.
Reptiliaa—Group of vertebrae, &c., of Mixosaurus, from the
Trias of Sticky Keep, Sassen Bay, Spitzbergen. John Newton, Esq.
Two portions of a Cetiosaurian pelvis from the Inferior Oolite of
Harlestone, Northampton. Hl: Craddock, Hsq.
A Chelonian mandibular symphysis and a sacrum and ungual
phalange of Trionyx, from the Barton Clay, Hampshire. H. Eliot
Walton, Esq.
Pisces.—A dentary bone of Cybium bartonense, and other fish-
remains, from the Barton Clay, Hampshire. 4. Eliot Walton, Esq.
Portions of four Siluroid skulls, from an Eocene formation in a
cutting on the Port Harcourt railway, Ombialla district, Southern
Nigeria. Str John Eaglesome, K.C.M.G.
Mollusca.—Polished section of a coiled Nautiloid, probably of
Ordovician age, from China, and a portion of Bacuhte obtained by
Mr. Archibald Little neat Pike’s Peak, Colorado, July, 1865. Miss
Alice Little.
168 Mollusea from the Devonian of Devonshire illustrating papers
by the donor in Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., 1895, Trans. Devon. Assoc.,
1908, and Proc. Geol. Assoc., 1910. J. G. Hamling, Esq., F.GS.
About a hundred Ammonites from the Oxford Clay near Peter-
borough. £. Thurlow Leeds, Esq.
One Cephalopod, fourteen Gastropods and twenty-two Lamelli-
branchs from the British Jurassic and Cretaceous, being part of the
collection of the late James W. Butler, Esq. Miss Daisy Butler.
A Hippurite from the Chalk of Boughton churchyard, near
Faversham, Kent. Joseph Acworth Plommer, Esq.
Thirty fragments of Belemnites from the Upper Cretaceous of
New Zealand. Prof. James Park.
Cretaceous Mollusca from Angola, West Africa, described and
figured by R. Bullen Newton, Trans. Roy. Soc. Edinburgh, vol. li.
(1916); pp.' 561-580; pls? 1. 1) Prof SW. Gregory Faas:
Hight Mollusca from the Tertiary and Cretaceous of Sab e es
Siberia. Bequeathed by the late D. A. Lows, Esq.
12 Mollusca, from an Eocene formation in a cutting on the Port
Harcourt Railwav, Ombialla district, Southern Nigeria. Sir John
Haglesome, K.C.M.G.
Two Gastropods and 9 Lamellibranchs, from the Miocene of
Eastern Cyreniaca. Captain R. S. Gwatkin- Williams, RN.
Tertiary Mollusca from Trinidad. John Parkinson, Hsq., M.A.
32 Gastropods and 11 Lamellibranchs, from the Tertiary of
Trinidad. C. 8S. Rogers, Hsq., Conservator of Forests, Trinidad.
Arthropoda.—Two specimens of Homalonotus, and one plaster
cast of the same, from the Llanvirn rocks, Carmarthenshire. John
Innes, Esq.
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Phyllopods, from the Lower Ordovician of Victoria, Australia.
SoH: Young, Esq:
31 Trilobites, being part of a collection of Devonian and Carbon-
iferous fossils from Devonshire, illustrating papers by the donor, in
Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., 1895, Trans. Devon. Assoc., 1908, and
Proc. Geol. Assoc., 1910. J. G. Hamling, Esq., F.G.S.
42 Arthropoda (twenty having counterparts) in Iron-stone nodules,
from the Coal Measures of Coseley, near Dudley ; including the type-
specimen of Anthracomartus priesti, Pocock. S. Priest, Hsq., F.G.S.
Echinoderma.—One Cystid, from the Ordovician of Oddgill,
Cautley, Yorkshire, and two Cystids, from the Ashgillian beds, near
Windermere. Dr. J. E. Marr, FR.S.
Three calyces of Stephanocrinus, collected by the donor in the
Upper Ordovician of Sweden. Dr. F. A. Bather, F.RS.
19 Crinoids (Stephanocrinus), from the Silurian of Grimsby,
Ontario. Prof. W. A. Parkes.
Two Asteroidea and 53 Crinoidea, being part of the collection of
the donor, from the Devonian and Carboniferous rocks of Devonshire,
illustrating papers by the donor in Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., 1895,
Trans. Devon. Assoc., 1908, and Proc. Geol. Assoc., 1910. J. G.
Hamling, Esq., F.G.S.
One of the four known specimens of Melocrinus gregeri from the
Devonian, Craghead Creek, Callaway Co., Missouri, twenty-three
Crinoids from the basal Burlington Limestone of the same locality ;
five Crinoids and one Blastoid from the Chouteau Limestone, and one
Blastoid from the basal Burlington Limestone, Easily, Boore Co.,
Missouri ; two Crinoids (Onychocrinus and Scytalocrinus), from the
Carboniferous of Missouri, and twenty-one Crinoids, and six Blastoids
from the Chouteau Limestone, Lupus, Moniteau Co., Missouri.
Mr. D. K. Greger.
12 Oolitic Echinoids, from the collection of the late James W.
Butler, Hsq. Miss Daisy Butler.
One Miocene Hchinoid, from Eastern Cyreniaca. Captain R. S.
Gwatkin- Williams, RN.
Brachiopoda—250 Brachiopoda, being part of the donor’s collec-
tion from the Devonian and Carboniferous of Devonshire, illustrating
his papers in Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., 1895, Trans. Devon. Assoc.,
1908, and Proc. Geol. Assoc., 1910. J. G. Hamling, Esq., F.G.S.
Brachiopoda from Angola, West Africa, described and figured
by R. Bullen Newton, Trans. Roy. Soc. Edinburgh, vol. h. (1916),
pp. 561-580, pls. i. and ii. Prof. J. W. Gregory, F.RS.
Vermes.—One Annelid (Spirorbis) on a plant, from the Ludlow
Beds, near Clun, Shropshire. John Bateson, Esq.
Polyzoa—Twenty-five Polyzoa, being part of the collection of the
donor from the Devonian of Devonshire, illustrating his papers in
Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., 1895, Trans. Devon. Assoc., 1908, and
Proc. Geol. Assoc., 1910. J. G. Hamling, Esq., F.GS.
88 ACCOUNTS, EYC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
108 Polyzoa from the Chalk of Surrey and Sussex. C. T. A.
Gaster, Esq.
Tertiary Polyzoa from Trinidad. John Parkinson, Esq., M.A.
Colentera.—Graptolites from the Lower Ordovician, Victoria,
Australia. J. H. Young, Esq.
Twenty-eight Corals, being part of the collection of the donor
from the Devonian and Carboniferous of Devonshire, illustrating
his papers in Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., 1895, Trans. Devon. Assoc.,
1908, and Proc. Geol. Assoc., 1910. J. G. Hamling, Esq., F.G.S.
Thirteen pieces of Carboniferous Limestone containing corals
from Bukit Cheras, Kuantan district, Pahang, Federated Malay
States. J. B. Scrivenor, Esq., M.A.
Porifera.—One Sponge from the Culm of Codden Hill, Devon-
shire. J. G. Hamling, Esq., F.G.S.
One Sponge (Cliona) from the Upper Greensand Cornstones of
Wiltshire. B. Pope Bartlett, Esq., M.R.C.S.
Protozoa.—Ten Foraminiferal rocks and other Foraminifera from
the Tertiary of Trinidad. John Parkinson, Esq., M.A.
Miscellaneous Invertebrata.—Ninety-eight fossils from the Tertiary
of Victoria, Australia. J. H. Young, Esq.
Tracks.—Tracks (Cruziana) from the Carboniferous Lower
Limestones, above Hosie Limestone, Seafield, Fife. James Wright,
jun., Esq.
Plante.—Seven specimens of fossil wood and a piece of a cone
of Bennettites, sp. nov., from the Gault of Folkestone. G. C. Walton,
fisq., F.L.S.
A piece of coniferous wood from the Upper Greensand of Pewsey,
Wilts, and five microscope-slides of the same ; four pieces of Sarsen
Stone from Little Bedwin, Wilts, containing rootlets of Palms and
six microscope-slides of the same. Thomas Codrington, Esq., F.G.S.
Rock-specimens.—Three clay-ironstone nodules from Ardley,
British Columbia. John H. Wright, Esq.
Sands, &e., collected by the late Rev. R. Ashington Bullen in
Bermuda, illustrating his paper on the Geology of the Bermuda
Islands, Geol. Mag., 1911, pp. 385-395, 433-442. Mrs. Ashington
Bullen.
22 facetted pebbles from Glacial Gravel, Pendleton, Manchester,
described by the donor in Abstr. Proc. Geol. Soe., Nov. 17th, 1916,
p. 5. J. Wilfrid Jackson, Esq.
B.— By Eachange.
Mammalia.—Antlers of Cervus belgrandi (C. verticornis) from
the Forest Bed of Pakefield, Norfolk, described by Dr. 8S. F. Harmer
in Trans. Zool. Soc., vol. xv. (1899), p. 97, pl. xxi. Zoological
Museum, Cambridge.
DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY. 89
Maxilla of Hyena from the Upper Tertiary of Salonika, Greece.
Denstone College Museum.
C.—By Purchase.
The following specimens were purchased by the grant brought
forward from the financial year 1914-15 :—
Reptilia.—A large part of the skeleton of an armoured Dinosaur,
a skull of Monoclonius, the snout of a Megalosaurian, a foot of Ornitho-
mimus, and other reptilian remains from the Upper Cretaceous,
Alberta, Canada (W. EH. Cutler coll.).
Mollusca.—A small series of shells associated with the above
(W. E. Cutler coll.).
The total accessions during 1916 are as follows :
Donation. Purchase. Exchange. Total.
Vertebrata is Tr 59 100 161
Invertebrata ae Be ie 2,021 25 — 2,046
Plantee ‘ wes gas oa 5) -—- --- 25
Rocks and Tracks... a »: 29 = — 29
2,134 125 2 2,261
The total number of specimens registered is 7,609.
VI. Students and Visitors.
The number of visits paid to the Department by students and
other persons for the purpose of consultation or study during 1916
was 3,009.
The staff received 10 parties (246 persons) for demonstrations in
the public galleries.
Arthur Smith Woodward.
90 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
DEPARTMENT OF MINERALOGY.
I.— Arrangement.
The incorporation in the General Collection of the recent acquisi-
tions, including specimens of zeolites belonging to the large Ashcroft
collection, has involved many re-arrangements of the species in the
case-tops and drawers, and the opportunity has been taken in the
case of some species to arrange them topographically.
Mineral and rock-specimens have been unpacked and examined,
and twenty-six boxes have been packed and despatched.
Il.—Registration, Indexing, and Cataloguing.
All the specimens of minerals, rocks, and meteorites acquired
during the year have been registered, numbered, labelled, and
incorporated with the Collection.
The preparation of the slip-catalogues of the mineral-specimens
in the Collection, species by species, and of permanent labels giving
all available information for each specimen, has been continued for
the Divisions of the Oxides and Carbonates. In this connexion
slips have been prepared for the species zircon, thorite, rutile,
anatase, brookite, baddeleyite, melanophlogite, cristobalite, and
tridymite amongst the Oxides, and for thirty-three species from
dolomite to malachite of the Carbonates ; specimens belonging to
old collections have been entered in the General Register ; and
permanent labels have been written and placed with the specimens.
In the course of this work many doubtful specimens have been
examined and determined, and additions and corrections have been
made in the General Register.
The slip-catalogue of the Precious Stones has been brought up
to date, and a list has been prepared of all the gem-stones in the
Collection mounted in finger-rings.
All the specimens of Meteoric Irons and Siderolites have been
carefully examined for rusting, and those showing signs of rust have
been cleaned and coated with french polish. A card index of the
specimens has been prepared to facilitate reference to the dates at
which particular specimens were treated.
Sixteen guard-books of letters for the years 1800-1900 have
been indexed.
The preparation of a copy of the register of the specimens in
the Collection has been continued, and permanent labels containing
particulars drawn from the register have been prepared for the
specimens of minerals acquired during the year.
II1.—Preparation.
54 thin-sections of rocks and meteorites have been prepared.
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TV .—Jnvestigation.
A crystallographic investigation of sartorite has been in progress,
a considerable number of crystals of this rare mineral having been
made available for a detailed study through the kindness of Mr.
R. H. Solly and Dr. C. O. Trechmann. In the course of this
work several crystals of other sulpharsenites of lead (baumhauerite,
jordanite, and rathite) from the Binnenthal were measured and the
indices of the faces were determined.
A twin-crystal of gypsum representing a new type has been
examined, figured, and described.
Investigations have been made of the meteoric stones of Khairpur,
Soko-Banja, and Simondium. As a result of these and previous
investigations a genetic relationship of all meteorites has been
suggested, and on ae a new classification has been based.
V.— Departmental Library.
Cataloguing and Press-marking.—All the accessions, including
713 plates, have been catalogued and stamped.
The collection of treatises on mineralogy, numbering 490 volumes,
have been removed from the Keeper’s Room and arranged in chrono-
logical order in the new case in the Library Room.
Proofs of the Library Catalogue (Supplement) have been read and
checked against the slip catalogue in the Department.
Accessions.—27 volumes of separate works, 19 periodicals (in
211 volumes and parts), one print, 20 pamphlets, three parts of
works, 34 Mining and Survey reports, and six sheets of maps have
been added to the Library.
Binding.—116 volumes have been bound.
VI.— Acquisitions.
866 specimens have been acquired, namely :—
464 minerals (including artificial crystallized products), 395
rocks, and 7 meteorites.
Three meteorites have been acquired by exchange from the
South African Museum, Cape Town.
The following mineral names added to the Museum List were
previously not represented by specimens in the collection :—
Pyroxmangite, spencerite, yukonite.
Only three specimens of minerals have been purchased.
The specimens acquired by presentation (arranged alphabetically
according to donors) and by exchange are as follows :—
Minerals.
By Presentation :
Further instalments from the donor’s collection of zeolites,
comprising 304 specimens from 47 localities in the British isles,
Germany, Bohemia, Tyrol, Switzerland, Australia, Japan, U.S.A.,
92 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
and Mexico. Many of these are choice specimens, and their value is
enhanced by the detailed information on the accompanying labels as
to their exact locality and mode of occurrence. Also a series of
specimens recently collected by the donor in Wales; namely,
paracelsian, albite on quartz, and cerussite with dundasite, from
Carnarvonshire ; and fluor with blende, copper-pyrites, and calcite,
from Halkin mine, Flintshire ; large cubes of grey fluor from a new
occurrence in Stanhope Burn mine, Weardale, Co. Durham ; and
fine crystals of idocrase in matrix from Achtaragda River, Siberia :
by F. NN. Ashcroft, Esq.
Crystallized corundum (ruby) artificially produced in the
extraction of chromium: by The British Thermit Co., Ltd.
Witherite and barytes, from Virgin mine, Redmire, Yorks : by
James Broadhead, Esq.
Artificial forms of calcium carbonate from water-works : by W. T.
Burgess, Esq.
Stalactitic calcite from Mexico, and magnetite from Taberg,
Sweden (from the collection of the donor’s husband, the late Colonel
G. Earl Church) : by Mrs. A. M. Church.
Mica sand from Mauritius: by Miss EH. E. Clark.
Percylite, two specimens from Chili (from the collection of the
donor’s father, the late F. W. Crick) : by G. C. Crick, Esq.
Ankerite in coal from Lancashire ;_ phosphorite from Ocean
Island, South Pacific ; tourmaline, a large brown erystal from
Ceylon ; quartz, showing conchoidal fracture ; diatomite from Skye :
by T. Crook, Esq.
Gold from North Wales, South Australia, Peru and Ashanti ;
11 crystals of diamond, one of them coloured by exposure to radium
emanations ; platinum from the Urals; _ silver from Kongsberg,
Norway ; rhabdophane from Cornwall ; blende from the Pyrenees, a
portion of the original material in which gallium was discovered by
Lecoq de Boisbaudran in 1875 ; pitchblende and carnotite from
Colorado ; wulfenite from Arizona; monazite sand from North
Carolina; and various other specimens selected from the donor’s
private collection : by Sir William Crookes, O.M., F.RS.
Three crystals of diamond from Agua Suja, and crystals of
brookite from Arassuahy, Brazil: by David Draper, Esq.
Pilolite from Gourdon, Kincardineshire : by W. Duncan, Esq.
Crystals of corundum from Namaqualand, South Africa: by
H. C. Fowler, Esq.
Zircon, corundum, and graphite, from Madagascar : by Benjamin
Gallewski, Esq.
Epidote, a fine polished slice (10 x 6 cm.) from a large, clear,
rich green crystal ; pyrrhotite collected by the donor at Carrock Fell
Mine, Cumberland ; two fine, large specimens of iridescent pyrites
from Wanlockhead, Dumfriesshire : by the Rev. J. M. Gordon.
Wavellite and beekite from Devonshire : by J. G. Hamling, Esq.
Plumbogummite with eassiterite from Ninkada, Northern Nigeria :
by R. T. Hancock, Esq.
DEPARTMENT OF MINERALOGY. 93
Artificially crystallized tungstic oxide: dy High Speed Steel
Alloys Ltd.
Quartz pseudomorphous after limonite, perforated with holes,
from Llandrindod Wells, Wales: by J. Innes, Esq.
Wolframite from Lower Burma: by Miss D. M. Jewett.
Tremolite erystals in crystalline dolomite from Southern Nigeria :
by A. EL. Kitson, Esq.
Bitumen in limestone from Sicily : by C. C. Lacaita, Esq.
A fine suite of 12 rich specimens of gold tellurides with native
gold from North Block, Oroya Brownhill mine, Boulder, Kalgoorlie,
Western Australia: by the Directors, Lake View and Oroya
Heploration Ltd.
Diamond, a small faceted stone, mauve coloured, showing
dichroism ; two faceted blue zircons: by Dr. L. A. Lawrence.
Zircon crystals isolated from monazite sand, from Travancore,
India: by Prof. Henry Louis.
Gold in quartz from Rio de Contas, Bahia, Brazil: by Joseph
Mawson, Esq.
Chalybite (clay-ironstone) nodule from Westmoreland: by
R. A. Metcalje-Gibson, Esq.
Monazite sand from Bahia, Brazil: by R. Tucker Pain, Esq.
Idocrase with achtaragdite from Achtaragda River, Siberia: by
Madame Maria Rings.
Crystals of scheelite from South-West Africa: by Dr. A. W.
Rogers.
Fire-opal from Mexico, agate from Uruguay, quartz from
Madagascar, and malachite from North-Western Rhodesia: by W.
Schmassmann, Esq.
Calcite with fluor from Beith, Ayrshire: by John Snuth, Esq.
Kyanite-garnet gravel from Zanzibar : by Dr. Spurrier.
Cut and polished section of malachite showing remarkable
regular concentric structure, probably from Bwana M’Kubwa,
North-Western Rhodesia: by Dr. J. E. Stead, F.R.S.
_Twinned crystal of cerussite, encrusted with hemimorphite, from
Broken Hill, Rhodesia: by Percy C. Tarbutt, Esq.
Ditferent varieties of sugar crystals: by Messrs. Henry Tate &
Sons, Ltd.
Limonite from Elgin: by W. Taylor, Esq.
Garnet and chalcedony from Cumberland : by Sir John Tweedy.
Yukonite, from Yukon, Canada ; a new species described by the
donor: by J. B. Tyrrell, Esq.
Spencerite, a new species of zinc phosphate, from British
Columbia, described by the donor and named by him after
Mr. L. J. Spencer of the Mineral Department: by Prof. T. L.
Walker.
Almandine-garnet in biotite-gneiss from Southern Rhodesia :
by Miss HE. M. Whattaker.
94 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
Rocks.
By Presentation.
Australites (obsidianites) from Kalgoorlie, Western Australia :
by J. Vere Arkle, Esq.
Ophicalcite, two polished slabs, the one from Glen Tilt, Perth-
shire, and the other from Iona, Argyllshire: by the Rev. J. M.
Gordon.
A series of miscellaneous rock-specimens (14 from British and
three from foreign localities) : by Upfield Green, Esq.
A small selection from a collection from Pechili province, north
China: by Alevander L. Hall, Esq.
A series of 307 specimens collected by the donor at various
localities in Devonshire ; also 14 specimens from neighbouring
districts in east Cornwall and west Somerset: by J. G. Hamling,
Esq.
Rocks collected by the late D. A. Louis on the island of
Sakhalin, East Siberia: by the Evzors. of the late D. A. Louis.
Volcanic sand from Jan Mayen Island, Arctic Ocean: by R.
Tucker Pain, Esq.
A series of 28 voleanic rocks collected by the donor in British
Hast Africa: by J. Parkinson, Esq.
Septarian nodule of limestone from Montgomeryshire : by F. R.
Paxford, Esq.
Picrite with pyrope from Millour Burn, Ayrshire: by John
Smith, Esq.
Meteorites.
By Presentation :
Barraba, Darling Co., New South Wales, a slice weighing
107 grams. of this iron.
Bingera, Murchison Co., New South Wales, a slice weighing
14:7 grams. of the iron found in 1880.
Temora, Bland Co., New South Wales, a slice weighing 6:6
grams. of the iron found in 1890.
Gilgoin, Clyde Co., New South Wales, a coloured plaster cast of
the stone No. 7.
These three meteorites and cast: by the Department of Mines of
New South Wales.
By Exchange :
St. Marks, Tembuland, Cape Province, South Africa, a partly
crusted fragment weighing 102-6 grams. of the stone which fell on
January 3, 1903.
Kouga Mountains, Humansdorp district, Cape Province, South
Africa, a slice weighing 297 grams. of the 2,585 lb. mass of this iron.
Ratteldraai, Kenhardt Co., Cape Province, South Africa, a slice
weighing 235°5 grams. of the 1,210 lb. mass of iron found in 1909.
All the above Meteorites except Gilgoin belong to falls hitherto
unrepresented in the Museum Collection.
DEPARTMENT OF MINERALOGY. 95
VII.—Donations of Duplicates.
Duplicate specimens of meteorites have been given to Sir William
Crookes, and to the Mining Museum of Sydney, New South Wales.
VIII.—Students and Visitors.
The number of visits recorded as made to the Department for
purposes of consultation or study is 354. Many specimens of minerals
and rocks have been determined for visitors and correspondents.
G. T. Prior.
96 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
DEPARTMENT OF BoTANy.
I.— Arrangement and Conservation.
During the past year 14,125 specimens have been incorporated
with the Herbarium. This number includes 13,475 Flowering
Plants, and 650 Cryptogams.
Flowering Plants—Additions acquired during the year by
donation, purchase and exchange have been mounted and incorporated.
Progress has been made with the determination, selection and
incorporation of the early Australian collections, and outstanding
specimens have been determined and incorporated in various families,
especially Geraniaceze, Rutacese, Leguminose, Passifloraceee, Cactacer,
Rubiaceze, Compositee, Lauraceze, and Amaryllidacee.
Work of revision and re-arrangement has been done in various
families, especially Capparidacese, Araliacesze, Composite, and
Urticaceze, and genera, especially Vigna, Rhynchosia, Huphorlia and
Croton (Tropical African species) and Anchusa and Pulmonaria
(European species).
The British Herbarium has been placed in the same gallery as
the European Herbarium, and the space thus gained in the Great
Herbarium has been allotted to the General Collection, where room
for expansion is greatly needed.
Ferns and Mosses.—The selection and incorporation of outstanding
extra-Huropean material of Ferns and Mosses (including Liverworts)
has been continued and several genera have been revised.
Algw.—W ork of incorporation has been done in several families.
Fungi and Lichens.—Work of revision and incorporation has
been done in the Microfungi, mainly British, and in various genera
of other groups of Fungi. Progress has been made with the
revision and incorporation of the British Lichens.
Eahibition Series.—Progress has been made with the exhibition
of the Cellular Cryptogams in the Index Museum and with the
exhibition of British Seaweeds. Some time has been devoted to
experiments in preparing specimens, including seaweeds, for exhibi-
tion in their natural colours.
Catalogues and Guides.—Progress has been made with the
preparation of the Flora of Jamaica (Vols. iv. and v.) by Mr. W.
Fawcett and Dr. Rendle ; and with the revision of the first volume
of the Monograph of British Lichens and the preparation of a guide
to the exhibition of British Lichens by Miss Annie Lorrain Smith.
Il.— Investigation.
Collections have been determined wholly or in part from the
following localities and collectors: Southern Nigeria (Talbot),
Cameroons (Bates), Angola (Gossweiler), Uganda (Diimmer),
British East Africa (Buchanan), Rhodesia and Transvaal (Rogers),
West Australia (Stoward, Maryon), New Caledonia (Compton), and
various smaller collections from different localities.
DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY. 97
Work of investigation has been done in various families of
flowering plants, especially Urticaceee (Tropical African species) and
Rubiaceze, also in several critical Huropean genera and on the
Microfungi.
Assistance has been given to numerous students engaged on
“special investigations, and specimens and small collections have been
determined for students and collectors.
Assistance has been rendered to various Government Departments
in response to inquiries on matters connected with the War.
In connection with work done in the Department specimens have
been generously lent by the Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens,
Kew; the Regius Keeper of Botany, Edinburgh; the Bristol
Museum ; and the Government of Jamaica.
Undetermined material has been lent for study and determination
to the Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and to the
Regius Professor, Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh.
U1.—Departmental Library.
The arrangement, cataloguing, press-marking and other work has
been carried out. 30 volumes and 146 pamphlets have been acquired
by donation and 71 volumes by purchase—in all 101 volumes and
146 pamphlets ; these numbers include 15 periodicals in 118 parts
presented and 50 periodicals in 307 parts purchased—in all 65
periodicals in 425 parts.
LV .— Publications.
There have been no official publications issued by the Trustees,
but work has been continued on the Flora of Jamaica, by Mr. W.
Faweett and Dr. Rendle, and on the second edition of Vol. I. of
the Monograph of British Lichens, by Miss A. Lorrain Smith.
Various members of the staff assisted Mr. H. N. Ridley, C.M.G.,
in his Report on the Botany of the Wollaston Expedition to Dutch
New Guinea which has been published in the Transactions of the
Linnean Society.
Other publications by members of the staff issued by permission
of the Trustees number six, and six have been issued by other
students of the collections.
V.— Acquisitions.
(1) By Donation.
_ The following are the more important additions to the British
Herbarium :—F lowering Plants ; 64 Portfolios, estimated to contain
3,000 specimens, from R. 8. Standen, Esq. ; 27 specimens from
G. C. Druce, Esq.; 26 specimens from C. KH, Salmon, Esq. ;
33 specimens from H. 8. Thompson, Esq.
The following are the more important additions to the General
Herbarium :—Lt. A. Buchanan, 109 specimens from British Hast
Africa ; P. Amaury Talbot, Esq., 171 specimens from Degema,
S. Nigeria ; G. L. Bates, Esq., 254 specimens from West Tropical
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98 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
Africa ; R. A. Diimmer, Esq., 160 specimens from Uganda ; Capt.
C. Tristram, 38 specimens from Himalayas; Director, Botanic
Gardens, Singapore, 33 specimens from Malay Peninsula; Capt.
W. H. Shakespear, 36 specimens from Arabia; Linnean Society,
163 Australian plants ; Dr. I’. Stoward, 525 specimens, and J. E. C.
Maryon, Esq., 109 specimens, from West Australia; Dr. R. R.
Gates, 135 specimens of cultivated Gnothera ; E. A. Bowles, Esq.,
82 specimens, W. F. Ledger, Esq., 8 specimens, and Royal
Horticultural Society, 14 specimens of cultivated plants. P. A.
Saccardo ‘“ Mycotheca Veneta,” being 1,600 dried Fungi, trans-
ferred from the Department of Printed Books ; J. Groves, Esq.,
7 HKuropean Characeze; Torquay Natural History Society, 33
Muscinese from the Kast Indies and North America; Dr. C. W.
Andrews, 13 Cryptogams from Christmas Island ; Mrs. Cara Shinn,
11 species of Fungi from Nyasaland.
(2) By Purchase.
Botanical Exchange Club, 570 specimens of British Flowering
plants ; Miss B. Corfe, 12 coloured drawings of British plants ;
kK. A. Diimmer, 222 Flowering plants and 164 Cryptogams from
Uganda and British Kast Africa ; Miss A. Pegler, 50 Cryptogams
from Kentani, South Africa ; continuations of published sets of
Huropean plants, from H. Dahlstedt, 50 specimens, and from
H. Sudre, LOU specimens, and of North American Algze by Collins,
Holden and Setchell, 50 specimens.
(3) By Exchange of Duplicates.
The Regius Keeper, Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh, 18
species of #rimula from Yunnan, W. China; Director, South
African Museum, Cape Town, 75 South African Hricaceze and
Leguminose ; Curator, Auckland Museum, Auckland, New Zealand,
33 New Zealand plants ; Prince Bonaparte, 97 Mexican plants ;
Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C., U.S.A., 200 North
American Grasses; United States National Museum, Washington,
D.C., U.S.A., 1,142 North American plants, 263 Tropical Atrican
plants (Col. Theo. Roosevelt Expedition, 1909-10), and 163
Argentine and North American plants ; Director, Botanic Gardens,
New York, U.S.A., 703 Jamaica plants ; Director, Museu Goeldi,
Para, Brazil, 972 Brazilian plants.
VI.—Students and Visitors.
The number of visits to the Department for consultation and
research during the year was 3,303.
VII.— Demonstrations.
A demonstration on the collections was given to members. of the
Birkbeck Natural History Society. aoe
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BRIDGEWATER = - £ : = 1 2 fs 4
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HOURS, OF ADMISSION :
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ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
IL—AN ACCOUNT of the Recrrprs and EXPENDITURE of the
BRIDGEWATER FUND, from the 1st April 1917 to the 31st March 1918.
To BALANCES on the Ist April 1917 - - -
— DIVIDENDS received on 13,6597. 3s. 2d. Stock
in 24 per Cent. Consols, bequeathed
by the Earl of Bridgewater, viz. :
- On the 5th April 1917 2°£.85 7 4
Fe 5th July 1917 - - B85) (As
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» oth January 1918 - 85 7 4
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~ AMOUNT expended in purchase of Manuscripts. -
— BALANCES ON THE 31st MArRcH 1918,
carried to Account for 1918-1919 —- - -
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IIL.—AN ACCOUNT of the ReEcrEiprs and EXPENDITURE of the
FARNBOROUGH FUND, from the 1st April 1917 to the 31st March 1918.
To BALANCES on the Ist April 1917 - - - -
— DIVIDENDS received on 2,879/. 10s. 7d. Stock in
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_ STOCK,
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Dr. George Swiney for Lectures on
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Under Librarians of the British
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the late MR. CHARLES DRURY EDWARD FORTNUM from the
1st April 1917 to the 31st March 1918.
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ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 13
The Exhibition Galleries of the British Museum (Natural History),
Cromwell Road, South Kensington, including the Departments of
Zoology, Entomology, Geology and Paleontology, Mineralogy, and
Botany, are open to the public (with certain restrictions due to the
need for economy) free, daily, except Good Friday and Christmas
Day, and days of Public Fast or Thanksgiving.
The regulations at present in force are as under :—
The GALLERIES are open to the PUBLIC, free, as follows :—
Werek-Days.
Daily.—Central Hall (Special Exhibits), North Hall (Domesti-
cated Animals, &e.), Bird Gallery, Upper and Lower Mammal
Galleries, Shell Gallery, and Botanical Gallery.
On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.— Fossil Mammal Gallery,
Fossil Reptile Gallery, and Mineral Gallery. (Hastern side).
On Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays.—Coral Gallery, Star-
fish Gallery, Reptile Gallery, Insect Gallery, Fish Gallery, and
Whale Room. (Western side.) — .
SUNDAYS.
Central Hall, North Hall, Bird Gallery, Mammal Galleries
Gneluding Whale Room), Fossil Mammal Gallery, Fossil Reptile
Gallery, and Mineral Gallery.
The Hours of Admission are :—
On Weex-Days, throughout the year from 10 a.m., in
January and F ebruary ; : tO. 9,0. Pm
March oy: aa Ne as ee Rusty Pe
April to August Caclusiveys =“ ie: Be ee A
September ... : Ps ees i. ees
October, November nena Tseanmbar, me: se Sig ese) 3
On Sunpays, in cj
January... we es: from 2. to.4., p.m.
February 1 to 14 . pam ie Retype egtey OO: gs
webs ito edie sat at pa tenioah amehtD .
March 3 Ss ce 558 ye Ne -abdiser (LOUIS
April 2 205 9 2 ” 6 ”
May to August Ginclusiv Oe rhe ob ink Bed Og? rah =
September .. ‘ ide Eb ives Dipwere Hah cB Orde:
October... “al A 3: ant 2id jap d Ki
November and eeahbat i) be sitive Wo d504 -
Persons are admitted to study in and Departments every week-
day from 10 till 4 o’clock.
The following Galleries are closed continuously for the duration
of the War, viz.—Fossil Fishes ; Fossil Cephalopods ;_ other Fossil
Shells, ete. ; Fossil Corals and Sponges, and Fossil Plants ; Strati-
graphical and Special Paleontological Collections.
British Museum (Natural History),
93 Pebruary, 1918. Director of the Natural
L. Fletcher,
History Departments.
14 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
IX. GenerRAL Procress at THE Musktum, BLoomspury.
The exhibition galleries of the Museum have continued closed
throughout the year. In order to palliate the loss to the nation of
so important a source of education and recreation, and in particular
to avoid the distressing necessity of turning away from the doors
hundreds of Overseas and other soldiers desiring admittance,
authority was obtained towards the end of the year to arrange
for parties to be personally conducted round such parts of the
galleries as had not been stripped of their contents for purposes
of protection. This scheme, however, was frustrated by the
necessity, which became obvious towards the end of the year, of
taking precautions against air-raids of a much more formidable
character than those previously experienced. Steps were accord-
ingly taken, and were in progress at the end of the year, to remove
a larger proportion of the collections to places of greater safety,
and to cover up the others in situ. These measures have made it
impossible, at any rate for the present, to proceed with the scheme
for the partial readmittance of visitors.
The Reading Room, Newspaper Room, Manuscript Students’
Room, and to some extent the other departmental Students’ Rooms,
have remained open. Visitors to the Reading Room numbered
121,538, as compared with 134,501 in 1916. This total is slightly
less than half the total in 1913. The Newspaper Room figures
were 9,108, a reduction of 353, and less than half the figures of
1911 and 1912. The Manuscript Room had 5,483 visits, 230 less
than in 1916, but again less than half the latest peace-time figures.
Other departments had only 2,820 visitors, as against 5,411 in 1916.
Further reductions in the staff were made in the course of the
year for purposes connected with the war, and by the end of the
year all men fit for general service below the age of 36 had been
released, with the exception of one fireman, whose services are
indispensable. At one time all men of the highest classification
had been released ; but a fresh medical classification placed a few
of the older men in the general service category, whom it has not as
yet been possible to replace. A beginning has been made with the
employment of women as attendants in the Reading Room.
The total number of ‘members of the staff at Bloomsbury on
military service is now 115, and at the Natural History Museum 60.
16 have lost their lives in the service of their country ; 34° have
been wounded ; 19 have been invalided out of the army ; 3 have
received the Military Medal ; 36 have been granted commissions.
Progress was made with the re-arrangement of the collections
in the departments of Antiquities. The Coptic Room has been
arranged, and the collections of Babylonian and Assyrian bricks,
boundary-stones, gate sockets, &c., transferred to their new quarters
in the Second Northern Gallery. The Hall of Greek and Latin
GENERAL PROGRESS AT THE MUSEUM. 15
Inscriptions has been re-arranged, and a small hand-book to it
prepared. The Phigaleian Room and the Gold Ornament Room
have also been taken in hand. The Brahman Room has been
completed, and the Baddhist Room nearly so, and progress made
with the Asiatic Saloon and the Glass and China Gallery in the
King Edward VII.’s Galleries. All work of this kind was much
delay ed through the difficulty of obtaining labour or furniture, and
was ‘ultimately entirely suspended on oe of the measures, above
referred to, for the greater eon of the collections against air
attack.
The number of separate objects incorporated in the several
Departments during 1917 is as follows :—
Printed Books :
Books and Pamphlets - - - - - 18,947
Serials and Parts of Volumes — - - - SZ. LOD
Maps and Atlases - - - - - - 939
Music - - - - ~ - ~ - 8,421
Newspapers (single numbers) — - - - - 271,580
Miscellaneous - - - - - - - 5,160
Manuscripts and Seals - - - - - - 1,989
Oriental Printed Books and MSS. - - - - eon
‘Prints and Drawings - - - - - SA
2 (Oriental) - - - - 106
Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities - - . - 51
Greek and Roman Antiquities - - - - 18
British and Medieval Antiquities - - - - 930
Coins and Medals - - - - - - 1,861
Total - - - - = 367,903
In consequence of the shortage of paper, it has been thought
right this year to omit the usual departmental reports of accessions.
The necessity of omitting these reports is the more regrettable, since
it involves the omission of a public recognition and record of many
generous gifts to the national collections. It would also be unfor-
tunate, for the purposes of future reference, if the completeness of
the record of the more important accessions to the Museum were to
be broken. It is accordingly intended that the detailed reports
shall eventually be issued in full in the first Annual Report after
the restoration of normal conditions.
Meanwhile brief reference must be made to a few of the most
important additions made to the collections in the course of 1917.
Foremost among them stand three benefactions. of special size and
importance, namely the papers of Sir Robert Peel, presented by the
Hon. George Peel, the Zouche manuscripts, bequeathed by the late
Baroness Zouche, and the splendid collection of engravings pre-
sented by Lady Lucas. In the Department of Antiquities special
mention may be made of the famous Orestes vase from the Deepdene
collection, towards the purchase of which a generous contribution
was made by the National Art-Collections Fund; a remarkable
16 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
Chinese statue in glazed pottery, presented by the same Fund and
other donors ; and the unique silver penny of the Welsh King
Howel Dda (913-948), purchased with the assistance of several
private benefactors.
Arranged by Departments, the most notable accessions are as
follows :—
Printed Books.—Caxton’s ‘“ Dictes and Sayings of the Philo-
sophers,”’ 3rd ed., 1489. ;
Dialogus linguee et ventris, by W. Horman, Vice-Provost of
Kton, printed by Pynson (c. 1494).
Life of Petronylla, printed by Pynson (c. 1495).
Wiirzburg Missal of 1509. Presented by Mr. Campbell Dodgson,
Mr. C. H. St. John Hornby, and Mr. M. Rosenheim.
Private Prayers of Queén Elizabeth, 1563.
Fifteen volumes from the sixth portion of the Huth sale.
Thirteen musical works by Bach, Handel, &c., from the
Cummings sale.
A set of 567 trench maps, forwarded by the Ordnance Survey,
as a first instalment.
Manuscripts. Correspondence and political papers of Sir Robert
Peel. Presented by the Hon. George Peel.
The Zouche MSS., a collection of 91 Western and 103 Oriental
MSS. Bequeathed by the late Baroness Zouche.
Autographs of Charles I (after Naseby), Charles II, Louis XI
of France, Michael Angelo, Philip de Comines, W. Hogarth,
William Cowper, Charles Lamb, Danton, Lafayette, several of
Napoleon’s Marshals, ete., from the Morrison sale.
A collection of Gypsy Stories by C. G. Leland, and of drawings
of gypsies by Mr. Joseph Pennell. Presented by Mr. and Mrs.
Pennell.
Letters and collections of Bishop Perey. Presented by Mrs. A.
Broadwood.
Fourteen musical MSS. by Purcell, Croft, Mendelssohn, ete.,
from the Cummings sale.
A collection of MS. Music of the 17th century for viols and
lute. Bequeathed by Dr. T. L. Southgate.
Sixty-one letters of Sir F. Seymour Haden. Presented by
Mr. C. D. Sherborn.
A volume of Middle English religious pieces in prose and verse,
early 15th century. Purchased with the assistance of contributions
collected by Prof. I. Gollancz in memory of the late Mr. H. B.
Wheatley.
Holograph letter of the Duke of Wellington, begun before
and finished after Waterloo. Presented by R. F. Norton, Esq.,
Ku;
Prints and Drawings. The Lucas Collection ; about 4,400 prints,
selected from the collection at Wrest Park, of all schools, but
GENERAL PROGRESS AT THE MUSEUM. 17
especially French and English, 17th—19th centuries, with special
groups of Naval and Topographical prints. Presented by Baroness
Lucas, in memory of her brother, the late Lord Lucas, R.F.C.
The original Drawings made by Mr. Muirhead Bone on the
Western Front; to pass to the Museum as soon as they cease to be
required by the Government for purposes of propaganda.
About 120 .Drawings of Munition Works, by Mr. Joseph
Pennell. Presented by the Artist.
Portrait of Anne, Countess of Radnor, by Gainsborough.
Presented by Mr. G. Harland Peck.
Twenty HEngravings and Woodeuts of the Italian, Flemish, and
German schools, from the Pembroke sale.
Twenty Drawings and forty-four Engravings, by foreign artists
working in England, early 17th century, taken from a book of
goldsmith’s patterns.
Proofs of original etchings, by Mr. Frank W. Benson.
Presented by the Artist.
Greek and Roman Antiquities. The famous Orestes vase from
the Deepdene sale. Purchased with the assistance of the National
Art-Collections Fund.
Two important Vases, the Anodos of Dionysus and Apollo on
the Swan, from the Deepdene sale.
Five Vases from the Deepdene sale. Presented by Mr. G.
Durlacher.
British and Mediaeval Antiquities. A nnmber of ancient
Chinese Sculptures, including some assigned to the Han and Tang
dynasties. Presented by Messrs. Hampton and Sons.
An important Chinese Pottery Statue, of the Ming dynasty.
Presented through the National Art-Collections Fund, by eighteen
contributors, through the exertions of Mr. O. C. Raphael.
A series of Gandhara Sculptures, from the Deepdene sale.
Presented by Mr. G. Eumorfopoulos and the National Art- Collections
Fund.
Polynesian stone ep ltaahts. collected on Pitcairn Island.
Presented by the Pitcairn Islanders.
Coins and Medals. Two Greek Gold Staters, froma hoard found
in Macedonia.
Unique Silver Penny of Howel Dda, 10th century. Purchased
Ree the assistance of contributions by Sir ‘A. Evans, Sir A. Howorth.
me) Raphael, and others.
ie impression of a bust engraved by Roettier as a model for
a medal of James II. Presented by Mr. J. Whitcombe Greene.
A set of nine Plaquettes representing rulers of Baroda, designed
by modern medallists from contemporary native drawings.
Presented by H.H. the Gaekwar of Baroda.
Three bronze medals, commemorating the battle of Jutland, to
which prizes offered by Sir A. Evans were awarded. Presented by
Sir A. Evans.
18 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
A collection of 217 German War medals, confiscated by H.M.
Procurator General.
The following publications have been issued in the course of the
year ;—
Catalogue of Greek Papyri, vol. v. by H. I. Bell, 4to.
21. 2s.
Catalogue of Japanese and Chinese Woodcuts, by L.
Binyon. 4to. Il.
Guide to Select Greek and Latin Inscriptions, by A. H.
Smith. Small 4to. 6d.
Frederic G. Kenyon,
Director and Principal Librarian.
British Museum,
25th April 1918.
BRITISH MUSEUM (NATURAL HISTORY). 19
X. British Museum (Narurau Hisrory).
SUMMARY of GeneraL Procress made at the Natural History
Museum in the year 1917,
On account of the extreme shortage of paper the Annual Return
for 1917 has been confined to the Director's Summary, on the
understanding that the full reports by the Keepers of the several
Departments will be printed after the close of the war for purposes
of record.
The total number of visits made by the public to the Natural
History Museum during 1917 was 423,128, as compared with
402,673 in 1916. The attendance on Sunday afternoons was 46,468,
as against 43,414 in the previous year. The average daily attend-
ance for all open days was 1,166 ; for week-days 1,211; and for
Sunday afternoons, 894.
Dr. J. S. Flett, F.R.S., gave, at the Royal Society of Arts in
November and Decbuiliert the Swiney course of twelve lectures,
his subject being ‘‘ The Mineral Resources of the British Empire,”
which were attended, on an average, by 80 persons a lecture.
The lectures attracted considerable attention, and a copy of the
full abstract has been supplied to the Ministry of Munitions of
War, Department of Development of Mineral Resources, for
purposes of reference.
The Trustees have readily given their assent to a request of
the Committee formed to promote a National Memorial to the
‘late Captain F. C. Selous, D.S.O., who was killed in action in
Hast Africa, on January 4th, 1917, to place in the Natural History
Museum a bronze bust of the great hunter and naturalist, to whom
the Museum is indebted for so many of its finest exhibited specimens
of big game. The Trustees desire to place on record here their sense
of the valuable services rendered by Captain Selous to the Museum.
At the close of 1917, 60 members of the staff of the Natural
History Museum were serving with the Military Forces, while seven
were doing war work in other Government Departments to which
they were lent for the purpose.
Since the outbreak of war seven members of the staff have been
killed, fourteen have been wounded, and seven have been invalided
out of the army ; ten have been granted commissions, of whom two
have received the Military Cross, and one has been mentioned in
despatches.
As will be seen, the staff has been considerably depleted by
military duty and the calls of the War Departments for the services
of scientific experts. Nevertheless the Museum has been able to
render important help in various ways in matters directly relating
to the War.
20 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
The Museum has co-operated with other Departments in the
consideration of questions connected with food economy and the food
resources of the country. Information has been furnished on matters
relating to the utilization of the eggs of sea-gulls and other wild birds
as food and for industrial purposes ; the facilities that might safely
be granted for the shooting of migratory edible birds ; measures for
increasing the supplies of fresh-water fishes for food, &e.
A new case has been installed in the Central Hall dealing with
the subject of Food Economy as related to food-stuffs obtained from
plants. The several sections of the exhibit comprise cereals, bread,
‘roots and tubers and other vegetables, nuts, pulses, fresh fruits,
beverages, and sugar and its substitutes. A feature of the exhibit is
the series of coloured ee showing the nutritive values of some
typical foods.
In view of the enormous ravages of rats and mice, which are
responsible for the loss of thousands of tons of valuable food-
material, and for the dissemination of disease, the Trustees have
undertaken the preparation of a short treatise dealing with the
mode of life, breeding, and economic importance of these small
rodents. » The pamphlet, which is in preparation by Mr. M. A. C.
Hinton, will be published as a number of the Economic Series.
In thé Department of Botany the following matters, among
others, have been dealt with :—The examination of a fungus which
was destroying army tents at Malta and causing serious loss—an
effective remedy being suggested ; inquiries as es camouflage of
guns in winter ; the source “oe supply of sphagnum moss for surgical
dressings : sottrces! ‘of supply of timbers; damage to timber by
diseases. Inquiries connected with food production, including the
cause of ropiness in bread and the fungus-attack of sacks of flour
during transport, were also dealt with.
Reports have been prepared in the Department of Geology on
several collections of fossils from Trinidad, to facilitate the explora-
tions for oil-bearing deposits in that island.
A memorandum was prepared in the Department of Minerals on
sources of supply of colourless fluor and of Iceland spar, and
fragments of rocks from concrete used in German fortifications
were compared with the large series of German rocks inthe
Department.
Owing to the influx of malaria’ patients from overseas, and the
danger that malaria might be spread in this country through the
agency of the native anopheline (or malaria carrying) species of
mosquitoes, 1t had become very important to know the distribution
of the latter in England and Wales, and in consequence every effort
has been made to obtain all the knowledge possible on the subject.
With the assistance of the Local Government Board and of various
scientific bodies, specimens of mosquitoes have been received from
many parts of the country, and have been identified in the Entomo-
logical Department. This work is still being carried on, and the
Department has in hand the preparation of a map which will make
the knowledge thus obtained accessible in a convenient form.
BRITISH MUSEUM (NATURAL HISTORY). 21
Much correspondence has taken place with the Colonial Office
relating to the protection of birds in the British Colonies and
Dependencies, also with reference to such questions as food fishes
and poisonous fishes, the sponge fisheries in the West Indies,
investigation into whales and the whale fisheries in Southern
waters, and acclimatisation of animals in South Georgia.
An exhibition illustrating the Biology of Waterworks has been
set up in the Central Hall to the east of the principal staircase, and
has attracted much interest. The importance of the scientific and
practical questions connected with this subject is, perhaps, not
generally appreciated. It has been proved by sad experience in this
country and abroad, that ina water-supply which is not protected by
adequate filtration microscopic organisms gain access to the pipes,
and can there serve as food for animals which depend on this kind of
nutriment. The result may be the occurence, in the water-pipes of
a town, of masses of various fresh-water animals. Not only do these
tend to restrict the effective size of the pipes and block strainers and
taps, but their decay results in the fouling of the water and the
encouragement of the growth of bacteria.
These and other points are illustrated in the Exhibition, to which
an illustrated guide-book has been issued (see P: 23).
An exhibit. of birds useful to agriculture is in preparation.
The records of Cetacea stranded on the British coasts show no
sign of falling off in interest. The number of specimens reported
from various sources in 1917 was 31, or two more than in the
preceding year. Special mention may be made of the following
specimens :—A_ white-sided Dolphin, from Lincolnshire, believed
to be the first specimen to have been recorded from the English
coast; a large Sperm Whale, from Caithness ; a Cuvier’s Whale,
from co. Clare; a Risso’s Grampus, from Devonshire ; and a
Common Rorqual, from the Scilly Islands. In Dr. Harmer’s
Report on the subject (the fifth since the commencement of the
series) special attention has been devoted to the occurrence of
the Bottle-nosed Whale in British waters. The cordial thanks of
the Trustees are due to the Board of Trade and its Officers for the
great interest shown in the inquiry and the valuable assistance so
willingly afforded, as well as to many others who have given their
help.
The project for an Anglo-Swedish Biological Station in Graham
Land in which the Museum was to have participated has been
abandoned in consequence of the war.
Mr. A. H. Kitson, Director of the Geological Survey of the
Gold Coast, visited the Ameki cuttings of the new Port Harcourt
Railway, Southern Nigeria, and made for the Museum an important
collection of Eocene fossils, chiefly Mollusca, which will add much
to our knowledge of the geology of that part of Africa. The
necessary expenses were paid by Mr. W. Heward Bell.
The mounted specimens received during the year from the
Trustees of the Rowland Ward Bequest include fine specimens of
a male Tschego and a young female Gorilla, from the Bapindi
22 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
District, Cameroons, a female Ostrich from British East Africa,
a Chanler’s Reedbuck, a Queensland Koala, two Galago Lemurs,
and a Pygmy Squirrel, besides about 100 small birds.
The total number of gifts received during the year by the several
Departments was 1,393. Many of these comprised large numbers of
individual specimens. The following may be mentioned as being of
special interest or value ; from :—
Mrs. L. de L. Gwatkin—the collection of Molluscan Radulee
formed by her husband, the late Professor H. M. Gwatkin, and
presented by her in accordance with his wishes. The collection
consists of some 8,000 specimens, contained in three microscope-
slide cabinets, besides some 3,500 so-called ‘“ duplicate” slides.
Mr. F. D. Godman—two fragments and a lower molar tooth of
a second skull discovered in the Piltdown gravel in a new locality
by the late Mr. Charles Dawson.
The Duke of Portland—the skeleton of the thoroughbred
stallion ‘* William IIT.”
Mr. A. G. Dixon—the complete skeleton and skin of a specially
fine specimen of female Dugong, captured in Delagoa Bay some
years ago.
The Bombay Natural History Society —162 Mammals.
Mrs. Manby—a series of 18 specimens of heads of Big Game,
specially selected from the collection of sporting trophies, made in
Burma by the late Mr. C. W. A. Bruce.
Mr. Lowther Bridger—an exceptionally fine salmon, weighing
about 55 Ibs., caught by him in the river Eden in 1888. —
Miss Margaret Tanner—a collection of land and fresh-water
shells, mainly British, formed by the late Mr. Kenneth McKean.
Lady Strathcona—a collection of butterflies from the Niger
Delta at Warri, Calabar.
Mr. Rowland E. Turner—a well-made mahogany insect cabinet,
together with such of the contents (butterflies, beetles, hymenoptera)
as might be desired for the Museum.
The First Commissioner of H.M. Works, &e.—a main purlin
from the roof of Westminster Hall, in which the destructive work of
the beetle Xestobium tesselatum is very well shown.
Dr. C. T. Trechmann—an interesting and valuable series of
upwards of 100 specimens of minerals selected from the collection
formed by his father, the late Charles Otto Trechmann.
The Government of Peru—a large and important series of
minerals and ore specimens presented through the Peruvian Consul-
General in London.
The Derwent Valley Water Board—a fine ganoid fish (Acrolepis
hopkinst) from the Lower Carboniferous of Bamford, Derbyshire.
Mr. W. G. Wallace and Miss V. I. Wallace—Two MS. note-
books in the handwriting of their father, the late Mr. Alfred Russel
Wallace, on specimens (chiefly insects), collected by him in the
Malay Archipelago.
The Board of Governors of the Adelaide Public Library, Museum,
and Art Gallery—a fine series of coloured casts of Meteorites.
BRITISH MUSEUM (NATURAL HISTORY). 23
With the exception of the purchase for 100J. of the seventh
instalment of the Distant Collection of insects (4,000 Rhynchota
and 1,000 Coleoptera, including 250 types), a continuation of an
arrangement to which the Trustees were committed, and of books
for the upkeep of the Library, purchases were limited to a few
unimportant transactions.
The following works on Natural History have been published
during the year :—
British Antarctic (‘ Terra Nova ”’) Expedition, 1910. Natural
History Report. 4to :—
Zoology :
Vol. III., No. 5. Crustacea, Part IV. Stomatopoda, Cumacea,
Phyllocarida, and Cladocera. By W. T. Calman, p.sc.
Pp. 137—162: 9 text-figures. 2s.
Vol. [V., No. 1. HEchinoderma, Part I. Actinogonidiata. By
F. J. Bell, ma. Pp. 10: 2 plates. 2s. 6d.
Botany :
Part I. Freshwater Alge. By F. E. Fritsch, p.sc. Pp.
16%] plate. 1s.
Part IJ. Marine Alge. By A.~Gepp, m.a., and Hthel 8.
Gepp. Melobesiee. By Mme. Paul Lemoine. Pp. 17—
28: 4 text-figures. Is.
Report on Cetacea stranded on the British Coasts. By S. F.
Harmer, sco.p., F.R.s. No. 4. Cetacea stranded during 1916. Pp.
i: imap. Ato, 1s. 6d.
Guide to British Fresh-water Fishes. By C. Tate Regan, m.a.,
HRS. Pp. 39: 23 text-figures. 8vo. 6d.
Instructions for Collectors. No. la. Mammals. Part II. Skeletons,
with special notes on the collection of specimens of Cetacea. By
S. F. Harmer, so.D., F.n.s. Pp. 8: 4 text-figures. 8vo. 3d.
Heonomic Series of Pamphlets :
No. 5. The Bed-Bug: its Habits and Life-History, and
how to deal with it. By B. F. Cummings. Pp. 20:
7 text-figures. 8vo. ld.
No. 6. Species of Arachnida and Myriopoda (Scorpions,
Spiders, Mites, Ticks, and Centipedes) injurious to Man.
By 8. Hirst. Pp. 60: 26 text-figures, 3 plates. 8vo. 6d.
No. 7. The Biology of Waterworks. By R. Kirkpatrick.
Pp. 58: 18 text-figures. 8vo. Is.
_ Poster-leaflets, 18 in, by 12 in., on “The Fly Danger” and
“The Mosquito Danger.” Price 4d. each.
24 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
Permission has been obtained from the Colonial Office to utilize
the portions of the journal kept by the late Major G. E. H. Barrett-
Hamilton during his mission to South Georgia, 1913-14, other than
those relating to whales, which have been dealt with by Mr. M. A.C.
Hinton. The journal has been presented to the Museum by Mrs.
Barrett-Hamilton.
The extent of the collection of books, &e., in the Library on the
31st December, 1917, was, on a rough estimate, 102,975 volumes
(exclusive of continuations and minor separata) and 6,263 maps.
L. Fletcher,
Director.
British Museum (Natural History),
23 February 1918.
44 JUL 199?
Printed under the authority of His Majesty’s Stationery Office,
By JAS. TRUSCOTT & SON, LTD., Suffolk Lane, H.C.
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RETURN to an Order of the Honourable The House of Commons,
dated 1 April 1919; for,
COPY “of Account of the Income and Exprnprrure of
the British Museum (Serecian Trust Funps) for
the Year ending the 3lst day of March 1919; and
Return of the Number of Persons admitted to visit
the Musrum and the British Muszum (Natura
History) in each Year from 1913 to 1918, both Years
inclusive ; together with a STATEMENT of the PRoGRESs
made in the ARRANGEMENT and Descrierion of the
CoLLEcTIONS, and an Account of Ossrcrs added to
them in the Year 1918.”
Treasury Chambers,
7 Sa, STANLEY BALDWIN.
(Mr. Herbert Fisher.)
Ordered, by The House of Commons, to be Printed,
24 June 1919.
OU DiO ONE: '
PUBLISHED BY HIS MAJESTY’S STATIONERY OFFICE.
To be purchased through any Bookseller or directly from
H.M. STATIONERY OFFICE at the following addresses:
IMPERIAL HOUSE, KINGSWAY, LONDON, W.C.2, and 28, ABINGDON STREET, LONDON, S W.1;
120
37, PETER STREET, MANCHESTER; 1, ST. ANDREW'S CRESCENT, CARDIFF ;
23, FORTH STREETL, HDINBURGH ;
or from EB. PONSONBY, LTD., 116, GRAFTON STREET, DUBLIN,
Price 2d.
CONTENTS.
BRITISH MUSEUM.
; Page
ACCOUNTS (SPECIAL TRUST FUNDS, 19138-1919):
BRIDGEWATER z = é = = : : - - - 3
FARNBOROUGH = = = = z : = - - = - 3
SWINEY - = : = és Z z 2 : : 4
BIRCH 2 “ : J S 2 e 2 : : i 4
CHARLES DrRuRY EDWARD FORTNUM - - - - - - - 5
CARCHEMISH EXCAVATIONS” - : - : - - - - - 5
H. L. FLORENCE : = : : : = : - - - - 6
J. A. ROEBLING = - = = = 3 - - - - - 6
NUMBERS OF PERSONS ADMITTED:
BRITISH MUSEUM - : - z < z - = - ff
BRITISH MUSEUM (NATURAL Hisrory) - - - - - - 10
HOURS OF ADMISSION :
BRITISH MUSEUM - - : - - - - - . 9
BrRiTIsH MusEuUM (NATURAL HISTORY) - = = - - - dl
GENERAL STATEMENT OF PROGRESS : °
THE WAR—PROTECTIVE MEASURES - - - : - - oh) ok?
SPACE LENT TO OTHER DEPARTMENTS - - - - - - - 12
TEMPORARY EXHIBITION- - - - - - - - - - 13
VISITORS - - - : - : : - - - - 13
READING ROOM AND NuwSParEr Room - - - - - = 13
PRINCIPAL ACQUISITIONS - - - - - - - - - 14
BRITISH MUSEUM (NATURAL HISTORY.)
GENERAL STATEMENT OF PROGRESS: Page
VISITORS - - “= 3 s a 3 2 * a 3 ae
OFFICIAL GUIDE - - - = : - 2 E Z : =! AZ
SWINEY LECTURES - = 2 2 = : = : G o a7
SPECIAL EXHIBITS - - - 3 = : : 2 é . a
THE WAR AND THE MUSEUM- . - - - - - - = eS
INVESTIGATIONS = = s = 5 i ‘ z 2 c SR
BEQUESTS AND GIFTS) - : = - - = : = i =e
PURCHASES ~ - - - - a : - A Z S eb
PUBLICATIONS - : s : £ : ts f 2
: 21
ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
L—AN ACCOUNT of the Receipts and EXPENDITURE of the
BRIDGEWATER FUND, from the 1st April 1918 to the 31st March 1919.
To BALANCES on the Ist April 1918 - - -
— DIVIDENDS received on 13,659/. 3s. 2d. Stock
in 23 per Cent. Consols, bequeathed
by the Earl of Bridgewater, viz. :
On the 5th April 1918 eee OO! he As
9 5th July 1918 - - Some (mes.
i 5th October 1918 - 85) 74
» Oth January 1919 - 85 1 4
— RENT OF A REAL Estate, Whitchurch,
bequeathed by the Earl of Bridgewater (less
charges) - - - - - - -
By One Year’s SALARY of the Egerton Librarian’ -
— AMOUNT expended in purchase of Manuscripts -
= BALANCES ON THE 31st MaArcH 1919,
carried to Account for 1919-1920 - - -
STOCK,
CASH. 23% Consols.
ag Seth. twas ils
Bill a bse 9455 WB HORON ay) 2
341 9 4
23 12 -
£.686 16 9 13,659 3 2
STOCK,
CASH 23% Consols.
ee Souenel eres dl:
175 -— =
300, 2 =
116 14: 9 13,659 3 2
$2086, 16 9 US2659 [e308 2
IL—AN ACCOUNT of the Recerprs and ExpENDITURE of the
FARNBOROUGH FUND, from the ist April 1918 to the 3lst March 1919.
CASH,
dey se) Ar
To BALANCES on the Ist April 1918 - - - - TAGS
— DIVIDENDS received on 2,879/. 10s. 7d. Stock in
24 per Cent. Consols, bequeathed by
Lord Farnborough, viz. :
On the 5th April 1918 ae Eggle Mil
» .oth July 1918 - - Wy iS) abil
no oth October 1918. - Onl
9 ea dlehmteninyg, WSIS ake A) aU
———— 7119 8
£.143 16 5
CASH.
ae Seu ds
By AMOUNT expended in purchase of Manuscripts - 12411 -
— BALANCES ON THE 31ST Marcu 1919,
carried to Account for 1919-1920 - - - 1) Be
£.143 16 5
STOCK,
24% Consols.
ope Shee
Perey I) ~ 7
2,879 10 7
STOCK,
24% Consols.
pew ee
2,879 10 7
2,879 10 7
4 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
“ IIlL.—AN ACCOUNT of the Receipts and EXPENDITURE
of the SWINEY FUND, from the Ist April 1918 to the 31st March 1919.
STOCK,
CASH. 23% Consols.
Lis, 85 ta: Im SS ad.
To BALANCES on the Ist April 1918 - - - INC fleet 5,744 - 8
— DIVIDENDS received on 5,744/. - 8d. Stock in
24 per Cent. Consols, bequeathed by
Dr. George Swiney for Lectures on
Geology, viz. :
On the 5th April 1918 - £.35 18 =
9 5th July 1918 - - 35) sia
3 5th October 1918 - 35 18 -
na 5th January 1919 - 35 18 -
———— 143 12 -
oe GO) Syl 5,744 - 8
STOCK,
CASH. 24% Consols.
£. 8 ad. £ s. da
By AMOUNT paid to Dr. T. J. Jehu, for Lectures on
Geology in 1918 - - - - - Se bd ==
— BALANCES ON THE 31ST MArcH 1919,
carried to Account for 1919-1920 - - - ey eal 5,744 - 8
£.160 19 1 5,744 - 8
IV.—AN ACCOUNT of the RecrErrpts and EXPENDITURE of
the BIRCH FUND from the Ist April 1918 to the 3ist March 1919.
STOCK,
CASH. 24% Consols.
sop Dee Eee aa
To BALANCE on the Ist April 1918 - - - - —= 565 3 9
— DIVIDENDS received on 565/. 3s. 9d. Stock in :
24 per Cent. Consols, bequeathed
by Dr. Birch in 1766, for. the three
Under Librarians of the British
Museum, viz. :
On the 5th April 1918 - -£.3 10 8
a 5th July 1918 - =o elOpaS
. 5th October 1918 - SECU OM)
3 5th January 1919 - =o 10 88
14 2 8
£.14 2 8 565, 73 9
STOCK,
CASH. 24% Consols.
£. s. a. £. Sa0d
By LEGAcY paid to the three Under Librarians of
the British Museum, whose offices existed
in 1766, viz., the Keepers of the Departments
of Printed Books, Manuscripts, and Natural
History - - - - - - - - 142° 8
— BALANCE ON THE 31ST MARCH 1919, carried
to Account for 1919-1920 - - - - — 565s ong
ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. i)
V.—AN ACCOUNT of the Receipts and ExpEeNnpDITURE of the bequest of
the late MR. CHARLES DRURY EDWARD FORTNUM from the
1st April 1918 to the 31st March 1919.
STOCK,
CASH. 5% War Loan.
fe Ss 4d Lue Seas
To BALANCES on the Ist April 1918 - - op UNE See fh 1,900 - -
— INTEREST on War Loan - - - - - 95 - -
Eg AN | UE) 27 1,900 -— -
; STOCK,
CASH. 5% War Loan.
Eoin MS eee Be Ss
By BALANCES ON THE 318T MARCH 1919, carried
to Account for 1919-1920 - - - = eort EO ts 1,900 - -
Eso ADO UE) 7 1,900 - -
VIL—AN ACCOUNT of the Receipts and EXPENDITURE of the
CARCHEMISH EXCAVATIONS FUND from the
1st April 1918 to the 31st March 1919.
To BALANCE on the Ist April 1918 - - - - - - - 68 14 1
th
i)
H®
By BALANCE on the 31st March 1919, carried to Account for 1919-1920 68 14
ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
VII—AN ACCOUNT of the Recrrprs and EXPENDITURE of the bequest
of the late MR. HENRY LOUIS FLORENCE from the
1st April 1918 to the 31st March 1919.
: STOCK.
CASH. 5% War Loan.
x Se ds Ege OSH
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— INTEREST on 5% War Loan, 1929-47 - - - 52) 1236
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STOCK.
CASH. 5% War Loan.
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to Account for 1919-1920 - - - =D 169 0 1052) 12) 6
oop UE aK) =O) 1,052, 12 6
VIII.—AN ACCOUNT of the JOHN A. ROEBLING FUND from the
3rd February 1919 to the 31st March 1919.
STOCK.
5% War Loan.
ae terse) dl.
To Stock purchased with proceeds of sale of $5,000 Bonds
presented by Mr. John A. Roebling
- - 1,049 8 10
1s¢ April 1919. Frederic G. Kenyon,
Director and Principal Librarian.
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The British Museum, Bloomsbury (including the Departments
of Printed Books and Maps, Manuscripts, Oriental Printed Books
and Manuscripts, Prints- and Drawings, Egyptian and Assyrian
Antiquities, Greek and Roman Antiquities, British and Medizval
Antiquities and Hthnography, and Coins and Medals) is normally
open to the public free daily (except on Good Friday and Christmas
Day and days of Public Fast or Thanksgiving).
At present, however, the Print Department and the galleries
of the Hgyptian and Assyrian Department on the upper floor,
being still in the occupation of the Registry of Friendly Societies,
to which they were lent during the war, are closed to the public.
The remainder of the Museum, excepting King Edward VII.’s
Galleries, is open to the public daily on week-days from 10 a.m.
to 6 p.m., from April to August inclusive. After 4 p.m? in
January, February, November, and December, and after 5 p.m. |
in March, September, and October, only certain of the galleries
remain open.
Sunday opening of the Exhibition Galleries has not yet been
resumed.
The Reading Room is open to Students from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.,
the Newspaper Room and Manuscript Students’ Room from 10 a.m..
to 5 p.m., on every weekday except Good Friday, Christmas Day,
and the first four weekdays in March and September.
British Museum, | Frederic G. Kenyon,
10th June 1919. Director and Principal Librarian.
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ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. ie
The Exhibition Galleries of the British Museum (Natural
History), Cromwell Road, South Kensington, including the
Departments of Zoology, Entomology, Geology and Paleeone
tology, Mineralogy, and Botany, are open to the public, free
daily, except Good Friday and Christmas Day, and days of
Public Fast or Thanksgiving.
The Hours of Admission are as under :—
On Weexk-Days, throughout the year from 10 a.m., in
January and yews oe oe ee Zee GOW'O! Deny
March we ce Ie ms Bes) haz OOO ae
April to August ... ie Me Le este a es
September ... d ee rage eat Oe) nae
October, Repemiar al December ee mea Mit i
On Sunpays, in
January ... state es from 2 to 4 p.m
February 1st to 14th sep Sh egy “itl ane 1c ae
peo Louk to end ps bie can ae. a i
March ar ae “ene ney aga ee pyeaaess h5 0 ar
April % ee me aoe F784 poe oll Py
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September .. aie? ve a Sg. Len vaccines
@ctober ... , gh pa a eee) -
November and Decanter Apr tg eee ee ee be
Persons are admitted to study in these Departments every week-
day from 10 till 4 o’clock.
British Museum (Natural History),
1st April, 1919. Director of the Natural
{ S. F. Harmer,
History Departments.
12 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
X. GENERAL PROGRESS AT THE Museum, BLoomspury.
During the early part of the year the whole work of the Museum
was conditioned by the warning, received towards the close of 1917,
that air-raids in greater force, and utilising much heavier bombs,
might be expected in the spring. Since the Museum offered a
large and conspicuous area for attack, and no building could be
considered proof against a direct hit by a heavy bomb, it was
resolved to remove (so far as might be practicable) the most
valuable objects in the collections to positions of greater safety.
Accordingly the most important among the portable objects in
the Departments of Antiquities (including the Frieze of the
Parthenon, the best of the Greek vases and bronzes, the chief
Assyrian bas-reliefs, the Rosetta Stone, and the finest objects of
medizeval art), together with practically the whole collection of
Coins and Medals, were transferred to a station on the newly
completed Postal Tube Railway, some fifty feet below the surface
of Holborn. Special provision for their accommodation and for
their protection against damp was made by His Majesty’s Office
of Works; and the station was continuously warded by members
of the Museum staff.
For the printed books, manuscripts, and prints and drawings,
accommodation was offered by the Governors of the National
Library of Wales in their new buildings at Aberystwyth, and some
fifteen van-loads of the most precious literary and artistic treasures
of the Museum were transferred thither, together with a portion of
the staff. A small selection of exceptionally valuable printed books
was housed by Mr. C. W. Dyson Perrins in the strong room of his
house near Malvern.
A further selection of objects, ranking next in importance to
those removed, was placed in the strong rooms in the basement of
the Museum, where they were believed to be safe against anything
except a direct hit from a bomb of the heaviest type. In the
basement also were placed, under coverings of sandbags, the
sculptures which were too heavy for removal to the Tube, including
the figures from the Pediment of the Parthenon, and the collection
of mummies. The Assyrian bulls, the larger Egyptian sculptures,
and the metopes of the Parthenon, which could not be removed
from their positions in the galleries, were protected in situ by
sandbags. Much of the glass and china, which could not he
removed, was protected against the risk of concussion by being
stored in packing cases.
In view of this partial clearance of the galleries (which,
however, was very far indeed from emptying the Museum), it
was suggested that the vacant space might be utilised for the
accommodation of Government Departments, thereby relieving
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the pressure upon hotels and other buildings in London ; and,
in particular, a most unfortunate proposal was made to place the
Air Board there. Fortunately both for the Air Board and the
Museum the approval originally given to the scheme by the
Government was rescinded, in view of (1) the proved unsuitability
of the accommodation for the purposes of the Board, (2) the length
of time that would be required to remove the contents of the
Museum with due regard to their safety, (3) the reluctance of
the public to see the Museum endangered by placing a large
combatant Department in it, thereby making it a very legitimate
as well as conspicuous mark for air attack. After the rejection of
this proposal it was, however, agreed to provide accommodation, in
two ranges of almost unoccupied galleries, for the Registry of
Friendly Societies. The*accommodation was very inconvenient for
the purposes of the Registry, and since the armistice the presence
of this alien Department has greatly retarded the restoration of the
Museum as a whole; so that this experiment on a comparatively
small scale has confirmed the wisdom of the rejection of the earher
and more far reaching proposal.
The occupation of a portion of the Sub-Ground Floor of the
new wing by the Statistics Branch of the Medical Research
Committee, and of a portion of the Basement by the effects: of
German prisoners under the charge of the Prisoners of War Bureau,
has continued throughout the year. D
The work of all this removal of collections by a much depleted
staff necessitated the postponement of the scheme for re-opening
portions of the Museum to the public ; but as soon as the removal
was completed the scheme was taken up again. The originals in
the galleries of Greek and Roman sculpture, including the Elgin
Room, were replaced by casts; electrotypes of coins and a selection
of Greek vases were added; an-exhibition of manuscripts and
printed books was arranged in the Grenville Room; and thus a
small exhibition, reaching from the Grenville Room through the
Entrance Hall and Graeco-Roman galleries to the Elgin Room,
was prepared and opened to the public in August. The exhibition
proved attractive and enabled many of the overseas troops to see
something at least of the British Museum.
As soon as the armistice was signed, the restoration of the
Museum was at once taken in hand. The removal of sandbags
began immediately, and before the end of the year the Assyrian
Transept, containing the great bulls and lions from Nineveh, had
been restored to view. The return of collections from Aberystwyth,
Malvern, and the Tube station began in. December. But the main
work of bringing back the collections from their places of safety,
and of restoring them to their positions, fell into. the ensuing year.
Visitors to the Reading Room during the year amounted to
114,543, as compared with 121,538 in 1917, giving a daily
average of 378. The visitors to the Newspaper Room were
10,890, as against 9,108, and to the Manuscript Room 4,621, as
against 5,483. Much use was made of the resources of the Library
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by the Intelligence Departments of the Admiralty and War Office.
The visitors to the temporary exhibition between August and
December amounted to 150,442.
The number of separate objects incorporated in the several
Departments during 1918 is as follows :—
Printed Books :
Books and Pamphlets - - = - - 18,612
Serials and Parts of Volumes - - - =; 645835
Maps and Atlases - - - - - - 2,344
Music - - = = - = - - 6,938
Newspapers (single numbers) —- - - - 258,084
Miscellaneous - - - - - - - 3,609
Manuscripts and Seals - - - - = = 244
Oriental Printed Books and MSS. - * - z = 1.356
Prints and Drawings - - - = = 2,234
“3 (Oriental) - - - - 114
Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities - - = - 690
Greek and Roman Antiquities - - = - 15
British and Medizeval Antiquities - - - - 652
Coins and Medals = = = = = = 1,149
Total - - - - - 347,876
The full list of accessions is again omitted, since the need for
economy in paper and printing still continues. The departmental
reports are accordingly reserved for future publication.
The purchase grant being still limited to the acquisition of
current books, notable acquisitions were again mainly confined to
the gifts of generous friends of the Museum. The most important
were a selection of drawings of Old Masters from Sir Hdward
Poynter’s collection, presented by Mr. Otto Beit ; the bequest of
the Rev. E. 8. Dewick, supplemented by gifts from his son,
the Rev. EH. ©. Dewick, including twelve printed and eight
manuscript liturgical books ; a selection of Blake’s illustrations to
Dante, partly purchased and partly presented ; and the torso of
an Aphrodite, some classical gems, and 162 fine Greek coins,
bequeathed by Mr. and Mrs. John Ford. In addition the Museum
derived some early Sumerian objects from excavations undertaken
by Mr. R. Campbell Thompson on its behalf at the sites of Ur and
Erech in Mesopotamia. On Mr. Thompson’s return from the Kast,
Mr. H. R. Hall was sent out to assist the military authorities in
Mesopotamia with advice as to the protection of antiquities, and to
make such further researches as might be feasible.
Arranged by Depar tments, the most notable accessions are as
follows :-—
Printed Books :
Phalaris, Epistole, printed at Valencia, about 1474.
Amadis of Gaul, book vi, printed at Salamanca, 1510.
Indulgence, printed by Pynson, 1515.
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Palmerin da Oliva, printed at Seville, 1525.
Twelve service-books, 1499-1590. Bequeathed by the Rev.
It. S. Dewick.
Cavendish, Book of Madrigals, 1598.
Ptolemy, Geographia, 1513, Speed’s Theatrum Magnee
Britannic, 1616, and 13 maritime atlases and pilot books,
1794-1810.
The Glen Collection of Scottish Music, containing over 500
volumes. Deposited by Lady Dorothea Ruggles-Brise.
Manuscripts. Four liturgical MSS., including a Hereford Missal,
14th century, and a York Diurnal, 15th century. Bequeathed by
the Rev. E. 8. Dewick. .
Pontifical of Treves, 1456-1503. Presented by the Rev. H. C.
Dewick.
Missal of the Cistercian Abbey of Morimondo, 1302, and two
other MSS., purchased from the Dewick Library.
Dante, Divina Commedia, early 14th century, from the Vernon
Library.
Peterborough chartulary, 14th century.
Hogarth’s Analysis of Beauty, autograph.
Several autographs from the Morrison collection.
Vala, by William Blake, autograph, with drawings. Presented
anonymously.
Hight letters of Charlotte Bronté to G. H. Lewes. Presented by
Mrs. C. Lewes.
Oriental. A Persian MS. of the 14th century and a fine Turki
and Persian MS., about 1500. Presented by R. S. Greenshields, Esq.
Prints and Drawings. Nine drawings from the Poynter collection.
Presented by Otto Beit, Esq.
Several chiaroscuro woodcuts from the collection of the Rey.
J. Franck Bright. Partly presented by Lord Glenconner., J. P.
Fleseltine, Hsq., and other donors.
A. Diirer, Death and the Soldier, the rare first edition. Presented
by the Diirer Society.
A .large collection of lithographs by Daumier, Gavarni, etc.
Presented by C. L. Rutherston, sq.
W. Blake, Illustrations to the Divina Commedia. Partly
presented by the National Art-Collections Fund, L. Debenham,
Fisq. and C. Ricketts, Esq.
Louisa, Marchioness of Waterford, 24 drawings and a sketch
book. Presented by Major-Gen. the Hon. Sir Richard Talbot,
K.C.B., and Lady Talbot.
Sir Charles Holroyd, 46 etchings. Presented by Lady Holroyd.
Various war subjects, by E. A. Kennington, C. R. W. Nevinson,
and P. Nash. Presented by the Artists.
Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities. Basalt statue of a Ptolemaic
official, about 260 B.c., and other Egyptian sculptures. |
About 670 objects excavated at Abii Sbhahrén, Mukayyar, and
other early Babylonian sites.
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Greek and Roman Antiquities. Torso of a nude Aphrodite,
probably of the Medici type, and six engraved gems. Bequeathed
by Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Ford. , Contents of a tomb, excavated on
the Strymon. Presented by Dr. Eric Gardner, R.A.M.C.
British and Medieval Antiquities. A series of hand-axes from
gravel near Bournemouth, collected by the Rey. D. Woodroffe.
Presented by O. C. Raphael, Esq.
Bronze Age hoard from Kilnhurst, formerly in the Greenwell
Collection., and an iron axe-head of the Viking period. Presented
by Lows Clarke, Esq.
Pottery fragments, excavated by the donor in the New Forest.
Presented by G. Heywood Sumner, Esq.
Three alabaster figures of saints, an ivory group, and nine Italian
plaquettes. Bequeathed by the Rev. E. S. Dewick.
Coins and Medals. Collection of 162 Greek coins, mostiy of
the finest period, from Metapontum, Heraclea, Syracuse, Macedonia,
Corinth, etc. Bequeathed by J. G. For./, Esq.
Thirty-eight Parthian coins, and a very fine series of the
Sassanian dynasty of Persia. Presented by Sir E. Grant Duff,
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Sixteen gold solidi and eight silver coins of the Byzantine
emperors; a series of English gold and silver coins, and other
coins. Bequeathed by the Rev. LH. S. Dewick.
A series of 270 silver and bronze coins of European states and
their colonies, including a set from German Hast Africa ; and 180
modern British and Colonial coins. Presented by H. Garside, I¢sq.
-A very fine specimen, perhaps an artist’s trial proof, of the
medal of Domenico Malatesta, by Pisanello. bequeathed by
Constance, Lady Stern.
A lead portrait medal of Benunid Walter of Augsburg,
apparently ‘unique. Presented by Maurice Rosenheim, Esq.
Several war medals, German, French, and Dutch.
The only publication issued during the year was a short Guide
to the Temporary Exhibition.
Frederic G. Kenyon,
Director and Principal Librarian.
British Museum,
10th June 1919.
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XI. British Musrum (Natura History).
SUMMARY of Genera Progress made at the Natural History
Museum in the year 1918.
In view of the continued shortage of paper, only a summary of
the departmental reports of progress and acquisitions has been
printed, as in the preceding year.
The total number of visits made by the public to the Natural
History Museum during 1918 was 422,805, as compared with
423,128 in 1917. The attendance on Sunday afternoons was
46,109, as against 46,468 in the preceding year. The average
daily attendance for all open days was 1,165; for week-days,
1,211; and for Sunday afternoons, 887.
With the exception of the northern Geological Galleries all the
Exhibition Galleries of the Natural History Museum were open
to the public either on alternate days or daily, including Sundays,
during the war.
The daily opening of all the éxhibition galleries has been
resumed, and steps have been taken with a.view to the release
from military service of all members of the staff, so as to enable
them to take up their duties at the Museum as soon as possible.
It has been decided to keep the Museum open to the public
till 5 p.m. on weekdays during the winter months (November-
February). ;
The services of the Official Guide Lecturer have been continued
throughout the same period, and have been much in request by
parties of soldiers, many of them wounded, and others. The
principles of colour-protection have been demonstrated by him to
officers and men of the Camouflage School on many occasions, and
in these demonstrations the following exhibits have been of special
service :—In the Central Hall, Thayer’s bird-models illustrating
protective coloration, the cases containing Northern Animals in
Summer and Winter Dress and Desert Animals, and the Mimicry
case ; amongst the Mammals, the Lion, Tiger, and Leopard, the
Rufied Lemur, Great Panda, Takin, Zebra, and Giraffe ; and in
other galleries, such exhibits as the cases of Terns and Plovers
with eggs and chicks, the Little Bittern, the Python, Coral Snake
and Krait, the Tree Frogs, Mackerel and Tunny, and many Insects.
Dr. T. J. Jehu gave, at the Royal Society of Arts, a course of
twelve lectures on the Swiney foundation, his subject being ‘‘ Man
and his Ancestry.” The total attendance for the course was 2,563,
or on an average 214 persons per lecture.
A “Guide to Rats and Mice as Enemies of Mankind” has been
prepared, giving some account of the instrumentality of these rodents
in destroying crops and in spreading various serious diseases such
as Bubonic Plague and Trichinosis. (Hconomic Series, No. 8.)
18 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
A small exhibit is being prepared to illustrate the transmission
of disease by rodents and other small mammals.
A special exhibit of Birds Beneficial to Agriculture is also in
preparation, to which a Guide-book will be issued forming a further
number of the Economic Series.
A series of mounted birds, collected by Officers of the 10th
Black Watch and 77th Infantry Brigade Headquarters on the
Balkan front during the years 1915-18, has been lent for exhibition
by Major P. Stormonth-Darling.
Various arrangements were made for the security of the contents
of the Museum against hostile air raids, including the temporary
removal of the more valuable collections to places outside London.
Accommodation for the study collection of small mammals was
kindly provided by the Committee of the Royal Albert Memorial
Museum, Exeter; the Sloane herbarium and a number of type
specimens and original drawings of plants of historical value as
well as a number of meteorites were, by the kindness of Lord
Rothschild, housed in his Museum at Tring. Since the cessation
of hostilities all the specimens removed have been safely returned
without loss or mishap.
The following matters connected with the war have been referred
to the Natural History Museum for advice and information :—
A report has been furnished to the Food (War) Committee of
the Royal Society with reference to an important practical question
in relation to the movements of certain fishes.
Research work has been undertaken by a member of the staff
(Dr. W. T. Calman) in connection with an inquiry into the corrosion
of cement, metals, and wood in sea water, initiated by the Institution
of Civil Engineers at the request of the Food (War) Committee of
the Royal Society. To illustrate this work an exhibit of boring
animals is in preparation. -
Information has been given to the Board of Agriculture and
Fisheries with reference to consignments of frozen fish sent over
from Canada for Army food purposes and determined as being
‘“‘ Squirrel Hake,” a species of fish very inferior to genuine Hake,
under which name the fish had been released from cold storage for
distribution.
The attention of the Ministry of Food and other Departments
has been called to the possibility of utilizing whale flesh as a source
of food supply.
In reply to an enquiry, information has been furnished to the
Admiralty with regard to the rate of growth of certain marine
invertebrates.
Correspondence has continued to take place with the Colonial
Office in relation to a variety of subjects, of which the following
are the most important :—
(a) The occurrence of poisonous fishes in the West Indies and
Malay States.
(b) The re-introduction of the Fur-Seal into South Georgia.
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(c) The protection of animals in Tonga Island and British
Honduras.
(d) Whaling statistics in Southern waters, On this subject
attention has been drawn to the very significant diminution in the
catch of Humpback Whales during “ena years. A Committee
has been formed for the Dependencies of the Falkland Islands,
including in its terms of reference the consideration of a scheme
for an investigation into Whales and other problems 1 in the Antarctic.
On this Committee the Natural History Museum is represented by
Dr. Harmer.
(e) The possibilities of a fishing industry in South Georgia, with
special reference to a certain species known as Notothenia rossit.
(f) The preservation of Hlephant-Seals in South Georgia.
Reports have been received furnishing information as to the relative
abundance of these animals during different months of the year,
the general impression produced by a perusal of which is a satis-
factory one, inasmuch as it appears that the effect of sealing
during recent years has not been a marked reduction of the stock of
Hlephant-Seals, the evidence indicating that they are still abundant.
The Colonial Office has been informed that the Trustees regard with
satisfaction the suggested establishment of a Seal Reserve at South
Georgia.
(g) Sponge culture in the Bahamas.
(h) The acclimatization of Reindeer in South Georgia. The
experiment of introducing these animals has met with considerable
success, Inasmuch as from the 17 individuals imported seven years
ago at least 62 are known to have sprung. It has been recom-
mended that fresh stock should be imported from Norway to
strengthen the breed.
In reply to an inquiry as to the possibility of exterminating
Land-leeches in the Tropics, information has been furnished as to
the life-history and mode of life of these animals.
Lord Swaythling has generously provided « sum of money
sufficient to defray the expenses of a zoological collector for one year,
to work for the benefit of the Museum in ex-German Uast Africa.
Mrs. Anderson, widow of the late Dr. John Anderson, F.R.S.,
formerly Director of the Indian Museum, Calcutta, has bequeathed
to the Museum the heads and horns of 10 mammals, six of the
specimens being specially mentioned in Dr. Anderson’s ‘“‘ Mammals
Gioypt’ (1902).
The mounted specimens received during the year from the
Tru tees of the Rowland Ward Bequest include examples of
Mandrill, male and female, from the Cameroons ; Grévy’s Zebra,
male, from British East Africa; Yellow Baboon, Red Howler
Monkey, White-headed Saki Monkey, Illiger’s Marmoset, Indri,
‘apaia, tusks of Water Elephant, Toy Bull-terrier, 67 Birds for
the Gallery, and 44 Birds for the exhibit “ Birds and Agriculture.”
The total number of gifts received during the year by the
several Departments was 1,280. Many of these comprised large
numbers of individual specimens.
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The following may be mentioned as being of special interest or
value, namely, from :—
Mr. R. L. Scott—a mounted specimen of the Water Elephant
from Lake Leopold II., Belgian Congo.
Captain H. W. Murray—the skull of a lion of specially large
size, and the skull and horns of a Blackfaced Highland or Scotch
Mountain Sheep, male, from Loch Awe, 1887.
Mr. Guy R. G@. Nevinson—the remainder of the collection of
Exotic Coleoptera formed by his father, the late Mr. B. G. Nevinson,
consisting of about 120,000 specimens contained in 19 cabinets and
numerous boxes.
The Council of the Royal Microscopical Society—about 1,000
microscope-slides illustrating the ‘‘oozes”’ spread over the ocean
floor at great depths, forming part of the collection of the late
Dr. G. C. Wallich.
Mr. E. Heron-Allen—a supplementary set of some 212 slides
of oozes from the same collection, with notebooks, maps and charts.
Mrs. Hinde—the valuable collection of fossils, chiefly specimens
from the Silurian and Ordovician rocks of Canada, the United States,
and Sweden, made by the late Dr. George J. Hinde, F.R.s.,
together with his unique series of microscopic preparations of rocks
and fossils.
Mr. A. E. Kitson, Director of the Geological Survey of the
Gold Coast—a large collection of fossil shells and vertebrate
remains from the Ameki cuttings on the Port Harcourt Railway,
Southern Nigeria.
Mr. James Groves—the British and European herbarium (6,000
specimens) formed by himself and his brother, Mr. Henry Groves.
The Rey. E. F. Linton—his British and European herbarium of
2,500 specimens.
Mrs. Ethel B, Ede—an interesting table with a top of inlaid
marbles removed, 1850-1853, from the ancient tombs beside the
Appian Way.
The principal purchases made during the year include the eighth
instalment of the Distant collection of insects, comprising 5,000
specimens of Rhynchota and Coleoptera, and including 250 types ;
the second and final instalment of the Malcolm Burr collection
of Dermaptera (Harwigs), consisting of about 4,500 specimens,
and including 64 types and 406 co-types; series of 255 and 144
microscope-slides of anatomical preparations of Land Mollusca,
mounted by Lt.-Col. H. H. Godwin-Austen, -F.R.s.; and nine
volumes containing some 700 original drawings of the plates in
the first 18 volumes of “ Curtis’s Botanical Magazine,” for 1001.,
towards which sum 25/. was generously contributed by Lord
Rothschild.
Exchanges and gifts of duplicate specimens have been made
with various institutions and persons.
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The following new works on Natural History have been pub-
lished during the year :—
British Antarctic (“‘ Terra Nova”) Expedition, 1910. Natural
History Report. 4to —
Zoology :
Vol. II., No. 8. Brachiopoda. By J. W. Jackson, F.«.s.
Pp. 177—202: 1 plate. 5s.
Vol. III., No. 6. Arachnida, Part I.—Aranez (Spiders).
By H. R. Hogg, m.a., rz.s. Pp. 163—174: 3 text-
figures. Ils. 6d.
Vol. IV., No. 2. Cephalodiscus. By W. 4G. Ridewood,
p.se. Pp. 11—82: 12 text-figures, 5 plates, 1 map.
12s.
Vol. V., No. 1. Coelenterata, Part I.—Actiniaria. By
T. A. Stephenson. Pp. 68: 6 plates. 10s.
Report on Cetacea stranded on the British Coasts. By S. F.
Harmer, sc.D., F.R.8. No. 5. Cetacea stranded during 1917. Pp.
21: 3 text-figures, 1 map. 4to. 2s. 6d.
Monograph of British Lichens. Part I. Second Edition. By
Annie Lorrain Smith, F.u.s. Pp. xxiv, 520: 12 text-figures, 71
plates. 8vo. 11. 10s.
Report of the Temperature reached in Army Biscuits during
baking, especially with reference to the destruction of the imported
Flour-moth, Hphestia kiihnella, Zeller. By J. H. Durrant and
Col. W. W. O. Beveridge, c.B., D.s.0., R.AM.C. Pp. 24. Royal
8vo. 2s.
Map showing the known distribution in England and Wales
of the Anopheline Mosquitos, with explanatory text and notes.
poy: D. Lang; w.a. Pp. 63: map (2 ft. 3 in. by 1 ft. 92 um-):
Royal 8vo. 2s. 6d.
Economic Series, No. 8. Rats and Mice as Enemies of Man-
kind. By M. A. C. Hinton. Pp. 63: 2 plates, 6 text-figures.
8vo. Is.
Poster-leaflet : The Louse Danger. Price 4d.
New editions have been issued of the following Guide-books,
etc. :—
Guide to the Races of Mankind (Anthropology). Third edition.
ip. 55: 16 illustrations. 8vo. Is. .
Guide to Fossil Remains of Man. Second edition. Pp. vi, 32:
4 plates, 13 text-figures. 8vo. 6d.
Guide to Domesticated Animals (other than Horses). - Third
edition. Pp. 56: 25 illustrations. 8vo. 1s.
Introduction to the Study of Minerals. Fifteenth edition. Pp.
123: 41 text-figures. 8vo. ls. 6d.
_ Introduction to the Study of Rocks. Fifth edition. Pp. 155.
VF By0.. 2s.
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Instructions for Collectors, No. 9. Soft-bodied and other
Invertebrate Animals. Fourth edition. Pp. 18. 8vo. 6d.
Economic Series, No. 5. The Bed-Bug: its habits and life-
history, and how to deal with it. Second edition. Pp. 20: 7 text-
figures. 8vo. 2d.
Economic Leaflet, No. 1. . The Danger of Disease from Flies
and Lice. Second edition. Pp. 4. 8vo. 1d. for 3 copies, 2s. 6d.
for 100.
Poster-leaflet : The Fly Danger. Second edition. Price 4d.
The undermentioned works are in preparation :—
Library Catalogue. Supplement, Vol. I.
“Terra Nova” Antarctic Report. Further sections.
Report on Cetacea stranded during 1913. * By Dees.
Harmer, F.R.S.
Catalogue of 1 Moths, Supplement, Vol. IJ. By Sir G. F.
Hampson, Bart.
Studies on Acari (Mites), No. 1. The Genus Demodez.
By A. 8. Hirst.
Dr. A. J. Chalmers, Director of the Wellcome Tropical Research
Laboratories, Khartoum, has been allowed to issue Arabic transla-
tions of the posters on “The Fly Danger” and “The Mosquito
Danger,” for free distribution to the peoples of the Sudan.
Mohamed Shafik Pasha, Under-Secretary of State, Ministry
of Wakfs, Cairo, has been granted permission to have the first
seven numbers of the Economic Series of pamphlets translated into
Arabic and published at his own expense in Egypt, where he
considered they would be of great interest and importance to the
people.
The Museum has prepared series of lantern slides to illustrate
protective coloration of animals, and sets of these have, at the
request of the Military Authorities, been sent to France for the
British Army Schools for Scouting and Sniping, and to the Sniping
School at Aldershot.
The extent of the collection of books, etc., in the Library on the
31st December, 1918, was, on a rough estimate, 103,939 volumes
(exclusive of continuations and minor separata) and 6,263 maps.
S. F. Harmer,
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BRITISH MUSEUM.
Page
ACCOUNTS (SPECIAL TRUST FUNDS, 1919-1920):
BRIDGEWATER x - = = = xk s 4 : 3 - 3
FARNBOROUGH - - : - 4 : ‘ S : J c 3
SWINEY - - - = = < = 2 : = : E 4
BiRCH - - = = = é = aie Ee E £ : I 4
CHARLES DRURY EDWARD FORTNUM - - - - - - - 5
CARCHEMISH EXCAVATIONS - - 2 z = = 5 . = 5
H. L. FLORENCE - = E é E e é 2 i zu - G
J. A. ROEBLING - - = = : = : J x z 6
NUMBERS OF PERSONS ADMITTED :
BRITISH MUSEUM - = = 2 = Sree é z g 7
BRITIsH MuszuM (NATURAL HISTORY) - - - - - - 10
HOURS OF ADMISSION:
BRITISH MUSEUM - - - E 2 - E E : 2 9
BRITISH MUSEUM (NATURAL History) - - - - - = ronal
GENERAL STATEMENT OF PROGRESS :
VISITORS - - . - 2 - = 2 : : s Fs eee
READING ROOM AND NEWSPAPER ROOM = < = - = epi TD
PRINCIPAL ACQUISITIONS - - - = = = E E Seeqiin:
DEPARTMENT OF PRINTED BOOKS - - = - = = 3 Pea i!
f ;, MANUSORIPTS - - - = - = z SaueeS
x ,, ORIENTAL PRINTED BOOKS AND MBS. - - = 223
» PRINTS AND DRAWINGS” - - - - = EDT,
SUB- DEPARTMENT OF ORIENTAL PRINTS AND DRAWINGS” - - Sy eo
DEPARTMENT OF EGYPTIAN AND ASSYRIAN ANTIQUITIES - - =) AS
se , GREEK AND ROMAN ANTIQUITIES” - 2 = ae aR
ie » BRITISH AND MEDIZVAL ANTIQUITIES AND ETHNO-
GRAPHY - : - = 2 = £ =e eae
me » COINS AND MEDALS - < - 2 5 e Ss enGD
BRITISH MUSEUM (NATURAL HISTORY.)
Page
GENERAL STATEMENT OF PROGRESS:
VISITORS - - - 2 - = - = : 2 - - =e AKANE
GogpMAN MEMORIAL - - - - - - = : : ee)
ANTARCTIC WHALES - - - - - 2 2 ' z ees:
SEALING IN THE FALKLAND ISLANDS - - : - 2 “ Sst Ear
REINDEER IN SOUTH GEORGIA - - - - - = : Bae ag (0)
INVESTIGATIONS Sina - - 2 - = 2 - = Beg Si:
BEQUESTS AND GIFTS - - = = = = a = a 80
PURCHASES - - - - = E - c E é : Ay ee
GENERAL LIBRARY - - - - - - - E ee S5
INDEX OF THE GENERA AND SPECIES OF ANIMALS - : : peso
INDEX MUSEUM AND MORPHOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS - - - - 86
DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY - - - - - - = = e Sey CYS
a » HNTOMOLOGY - - - - - = > 2 2 anes
A », GEOLOGY - - - - - = - = = = SHOT
3 », MINERALOGY - - - = : = = = Bees),
” gy BOWANY (0500 7 AS at plier eee
ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 3
I.—AN ACCOUNT of the Recerers and EXPENDITURE of the
BRIDGEWATER FUND, from the 1st April 1919 to the 31st March 1920.
STOCK,
CASH. 24% Consols.
Siu Wil Bren ee ds
To BALANCES on the Ist April 1919 - - - 11614 9 13,659 3 2
— DIVIDENDS received on 13,659/. 3s. 2d. Stock
in 24 per Cent. Consols, bequeathed
by the Earl of Bridgewater, viz. :
On the 5th April 1919 a on ola alles:
ww etclal ibys ES) - S5r a aect
a 5th October 1919 - 85 7 4
» oth January 1920 - SOmunaee
————. 341 9 4
— Rent OF A REAL Estate, Whitchurch,
bequeathed by the Earl of Bridgewater (less
charges) - - - - - - - 23 tO
£.481 11 7 13,659 3 2
STOCK,
CASH. 24%: Consols.
Ge ay a: Bie gu een Gs
By One Year’s SALARY of the Egerton Librarian - 175 — —
— AMOUNT expended in purchase of Manuscripts - 106 1 -
— BALANCES ON THE 31st MARCH 1920, .
carried to Account for 1920-1921 - - - 20010 7 13,659 3 2
£,481 11 7 13,659 3 2
Ii—AN ACCOUNT of the REcErrrs and EXPENDITURE of the
FARNBOROUGH FUND, from the 1st April 1919 to the 31st March 1920.
STOCK,
CASH. 24% Consols.
iy’ Sie SoS de
To BALANCES on the Ist April 1919 - - - - I PE 28095 LO ¢
— DIVIDENDS received on 2,879/. 10s. 7d. Stock in 2
24 per Cent. Consols, bequeathed by
Lord Farnborough, viz. :
On the 5th April 1919 Eek Ne
» 5th July 1919 - - U7 AS) aa
- 5th October 1919 - We MQ dil
, Sth January, 1920 - IPO = AL
(a a a
eSiA Ca Sysyena| 2,879 10 7
STOCK,
CASH. 24% Consols.
ie «S20 ds ee tS a.
By AMOUNT’ expended in purchase of Manuscripts - 55 13 -
— BALANCES ON THE 31ST MarcH 1920,
earried to Account for 1920-1921 - - - 35 12 1 23879 10 7
Sol Swe 2,879 10 7
4 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
Ili1.—AN ACCOUNT of the Recerpts and EXPENDITURE
of the SWINEY FUND, from the 1st April 1919 to the 31st March 1920.
STOCK,
CASH. 24% Consols.
soi Sea ab don) Sead.
To BALANCES on the Ist April 1919 - - - oT Oe 5,744 — 8
— DIVIDENDS received on 5,744/. - 8d. Stock in
24 per Cent. Consols, bequeathed by
Dr. George Swiney for Lectures on
Geology, viz. :
On the 5th April 1919 - £.35 18 —
Hola dibuhyfisyls) - 35 18 -
-5 5th October 1919 - 35 18 —
i 5th January 1920 - 35 18 —
————— 143 12 -
co Ne hy Meet 5,744 -— 8
STOCK,
CASH. 24% Consols.
£. 3. a. eee Ss.
By AMOUNT paid to Dr. J. D. Falconer, for Lectures
on Geology in 1919 - - - - - - 140 - -
— BALANCES ON THE 318r Marcu 1920,
carried to Account for 1920-1921 - - - ) Wb 5,744 - 8
#.149 11 1 5,744 -— 8
IV.—AN ACCOUNT of the REcEIPTs and EXPENDITURE of
the BIRCH FUND from the Ist April 1919 to the 31st March 1920.
STOCK,
CASH. 24% Consols.
Ce Samide £. 8s. a.
To BALANOE on the Ist April 1919 - - - - = 565 3 9
—| DIVIDENDS received on 565/. 3s. 9d. Stock in
24 per Cent. Consols, bequeathed
by Dr. Birch in 1766, for the three
* Under Librarians of the British
Museum, viz. :
On the 5th April 1919 - -£.3 10 8
5 5th July 1919 - Se O48
= 5th October 1919 - - 310 8
aa 5th January 1920 - ao AL)? 8
14 2 8
- £.14 2 8 565 3 9
STOCK,
CASH. 24% Consols.
£. 8. da. aoe Ch
By LeG@aoy paid to the three Under Librarians of
the British Museum, whose offices existed 3
-«wa in 1766, viz., the Keepers of the Departments
of Printed Books, Manuscripts, and Natural
History - - - - - - - - 14°42) 18
—: BALANCE ON THE 318T MARCH 1920, carried
wars -s, to Account for 1920-1921 - - - - — b6b. 3. 79
og 2 iv
ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. D
V.—AN ACCOUNT of the Recripers and EXPENDITURE of the bequest of
the late MR. CHARLES DRURY EDWARD FORTNUM from the
1st April 1919 to the 31st March 1920.
STOCK,
CASH. 5Y War Loan.
enti Bho C eeic | unSaaGh
To BALANCES on the Ist April 1919 - - = AOE SY ay 1900 -— —-
— 5 per Cent. War Loan 1929-47, purchased with
1891. 8s. 6d. - - - - - — 200 -— -
— INTEREST on War Loan - - - - - 100 - -
i SOLO a 2,100 — -
STOCK,
CASH. 5% War Loan.
zo SHG “Sa Ss
By Amount expended in the purchase of 2002. 5 per
Cent. War Loan, 1929-47 - = - =o S9) 18.6
— BALANCES ON THE 31sT MARcH 1920, carried
to Account for 1920-1921 - - - ot =e) ai 2,100 -— -
ee SUMO 7 2,100 - -
VI.—AN ACCOUNT of the Recrrrrs and EXPENDITURE of the
CARCHEMISH EXCAVATIONS FUND from the
1st April 1919 to the 31st March 1920.
CASH,
En 8. ad.
To BALANCE on the Ist April 1919 - - - - - - - 68 14 1
— DONATION (further anonymous contribution) - - - - 2,000 - -
£.2,068 14 1
Casi.
est) (ae
By EXPENDITURE on Excavations - - - - - - 1,534 2 3
— BALANCE on the 31st March 1920, carried to Adeount for 1920-1921 534 11 10
£.2,068 14 1
6 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
VII—AN ACCOUNT of the Receipts and ExpeNnDITURE of the bequest
of the late MR. HENRY LOUIS FLORENCE from the
1st April 1919 to the 31st March 1920.
STOCK.
CASH. 5% War Loan.
Berni Ss, nels ere Stree:
To BALANCES on the Ist April 1919 - - - 11216 - 1,052 12 6
— INTEREST on 5% War Loan, 1929-47 - - - 52°12) 6
£.165 8 6 1,052 12 6
STOCK.
CASH. 59% War Loan.
Sg sth: Bit Sas
By AMOUNT expended in purchase of Prints and
Drawings - - - - - - - Ee a=
— BALANCES ON THE 31ST MArcH 1920, carried
to Account for 1920-1921 - - - - 45 - 6 1,052 12 6
£.165 8 6 1,052 12 6
VIIIL—AN ACCOUNT of the JOHN A. ROEBLING FUND from the
ist April 1919 to the 31st March 1920.
STOCK.
CASH. 5% War Loan.
Cees ma 6h ae oe
To BALANCE ON THE IST APRIL 1919 - - - — 1,049 8 10
— JNTEREST on War Loan - - - - - 52. 9). 6
£.52 9 6 1,049 8 10
STOCK.
CASH. 5% War Loan.
£. s. a. een:
By BALANCES ON THE 31st MARCH 1920, carried
to Account for 1920-1921 - - - - Da ao 16 1,049 8 10
&£.52 9 6 1,049 8 10
1st April 1920. Frederic G. Kenyon,
Director and Principal Librarian.
ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
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ACCOUNTS ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 9
The British Museum, Bloomsbury (including the Departments
of Printed Books and Maps, Manuscripts, Oriental Printed Books
and Manuscripts, Prints and Drawings, Hgyptian and Assyrian
Antiquities, Greek and Roman Antiquities, British and Medisyval
Antiquities and Hthnography, and Coins and Medals) is normally
open to the public free daily (except on Good Friday and Christmas
Day and days of Public Fast or Thanksgiving).
At present, however, the Print Department and the galleries
of the Egyptian and Assyrian Department on the upper floor,
having only been vacated by the Registry of Friendly Societies,
to which they were lent during the war, at the end of March, 1920,
are closed to the public. The remainder of the Museum, excepting
King Edward VII.’s Galleries, is open to the public daily on week-
days from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., from April to September inclusive.
After 4 p.m. in January, February, November, and December, and
after 5 p.m. in March, and October, only certain of the galleries
remain open.
Sunday opening of the Hxhibition Galleries will be resumed
in the course of 1920.
The Reading Room is open to Students from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.,
the Newspaper Room and Manuscript Students’ Room from 10 a.m.
to 5 p.m., on every weekday except Good Friday, Christmas Day,
and the first four weekdays in March and September.
British Museum, Frederic G. Kenyon,
1st April, 1920. Director and Principal Librarian.
ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
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ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 11
The Exhibition Galleries of the British Museum (Natural
History), Cromwell Road, South Kensington, including the
Departments of Zoology, Hntomology, Geology and _ Palzon-
tology, Mineralogy, and Botany, are open to the public, free
daily, except Good Friday and Christmas Day, and days of
Public Fast or Thanksgiving.
The Hours of Admission are as under :—
On Weex-Days, throughout the year from 10 a.m., in
January and February... oi ere Poh BOD pany Paki
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November and December a La Dw. Peer a
Persons are admitted to study in these Departments every week-
day from 10 till 4 o’clock.
On Sundays the following galleries are open, namely :—Central
Hall, North Hall, Bird Gallery, Mammal Galleries (including
Whale Room), F ossil Mammal Gallery, Fossil Reptile Gallery, and
Mineral Gallery.
British Museum (Natural History),
1st April, 1920. Director of the Natural
S. F. Harmer,
History Departments.
ii? ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
X. GENERAL PROGRESS AT THE MusrkumM, BLOOMSBURY.
The year 1919 saw the return to the Museum of all objects
removed from it to places of safety during the war, and the
restoration of the greater part of the galleries to their normal state.
But for the continued occupation of parts of the Museum by the
Government Departments housed there during the war, the
restoration could have been completed within the year. All the
collections deposited at Malvern and Aberystwyth, and in the Tube
Station under the West Central Post Office, had been brought back
before the end of March. The re-opening of exhibition galleries
continued progressively up to July, by which time all had been
restored to the public except those that were still occupied by the
Registry of Friendly Societies. But-(in spite of promises of pre-
ferential treatment of Museums) it was not until the end of
September that the effects of German Prisoners of War were
removed from the basement of the new wing, while the Medical
Research Committee were still in occupation of the sub-ground
floor of the new wing, and the Registry of Friendly Societies was
still in the Department of Prints and Drawings and a great part of
the Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities at the end
of the year.
The re-opening of the galleries was at once appreciated by the
public. Visitors to the Museum on week-days (the Museum still
remaining closed on Sundays) amounted to 691,650 in 1919, as
compared with 680,000 in 1915, the last complete year; a
satisfactory total, though far below the 884,028 of 1913. Visitors
to the Reading Room were 130,198 as compared with 114,543 in
the previous year, and 243,659 in 1913 ; while the students admitted
to the Departmental working rooms amounted to 16,197, as compared
with just under 7,000 in 1918 and just under 37,800 in 1913.
Visitors to the Newspaper Room were 10,407, a total about 480 below
that of 1918, and 7,500 below that of 1913. When the Students’
Room of the Prints Department is once again open, considerable
additions may be expected to the figures of visitors.
The number of separate objects incorporated in the several
Departments during 1919 is as follows :—
Printed Books: .
Books and Pamphlets - = = - = 2 Za daw,
Serials and Parts of Volumes - - - - 71,403
Maps and Atlases - © - - - - - 1,610
Music -. - - - - = - - 9,506
Newspapers (single numbers) = - - < -) 199 40%
Miscellaneous - - - - - - - 1,649
Manuscripts and Seals - - = * = = 453
GENERAL PROGRESS AT THE MUSEUM. 3
Oriental Printed Books and MSS. - - . - 2,768
Prints and Drawings - - - - - aon,
Le (OHental) E - - - ATT
Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities - - - = LOO 1S
Greek and Roman Antiquities - - ~ - 42
British and Medieval Antiquities - - - - 1,626
Coins and Medals - - - - - - 6,301
Total - - - - - 332,930
The most notable variations are an increase of 20,000 in the
number of serial publications, a reduction of 59,000 in the news-
papers, and an increase of 10,000 in the acquisitions of the
Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities.
The restoration of the Purchase Grant, which took effect from
the beginning of the financial year, naturally produced marked
increases in the acquisitions of all Departments.
The usual Departmental lists of accessions are resumed in this
Report, after being discontinued for two years. It is hoped to issue
the lists for 1917-18 separately, in order to maintain the complete-
ness of the series.
The particulars of the most notable accessions will be found in
the Departmental reports which follow ; but special attention may be
called to the two magnificent illuminated manuscripts from the
collection of Mr. Yates Thompson, one acquired by gift from the
owner, the other by ae at his sale; the Trafalgar Log-Book of
H.M.S. Victory, generously purchased for 5, 0002. by Mr. James
eaphanan and presented to the nation ; the Northwick collection of
engravings and woodcuts, presented by the Hon. H. Spencer
Churchill ; a portion of a slab of the frieze of the Parthenon,
discovered several years ago on a rockery in Essex, and presented
by Mr. J. Dumville-Botterell ; the bequest by Dr. Allen Sturge,
M.V.O., of his immense collection of stone implements ; the gift by
Sir Arthur Evans of his father’s collection of Harly British and
other Celtic coins ; and the purchase, with the aid of a special grant
of 16,0001. by the Treasury, supplemented by the oifts of various
donors, of the most important part of Sir Hermann Weber’s
magnificent collection of Greek coins.
“Publications issued during 1919 :—
Guide to the Use of the Reading Room. New Edition, 1919.
exe. 9d.
Summary Guide to the Exhibition Galleries of the British
Museum. Third Edition, 1919. 8vo. 3d.
British Museum, ‘Frederic G. Kenyon,
Ist April, 1920. Director and Principal Librarian.
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XI.—PROGRESS made in the ARRANGEMENT AND DESCRIPTION
OF THE COLLECTIONS AND ACCOUNT OF OBJECTS ADDED
TO THEM in the year 1919 (Bloomsbury).
DEPARTMENT OF PRINTED Books.
I. Arrangement.—The works added to the collection during the
past year have, as far as possible, been placed on the shelves of the
Library according to the system of classification adopted in the
Museum.
The press-marks, indicating their respective localities, have been
marked on the inside and affixed to the back of each volume.
The total number of these press-marks amounts to 56,810 ; in
addition to which 50,821 press-marks have been altered on books
and in the catalogues, in consequence of changes and re-arrange-
ments carried out in the Library ; 37,512 labels have been affixed
to books and volumes of newspapers, and 37,056 obliterated labels
have been renewed.
The number of stamps impressed upon articles received is
Poy Ot
7,755 presses of books and newspapers have been dusted in the
course of the year.
II. Cataloguing.—37,905 titles have been written for the
General Catalogue and for the Catalogues of Maps and Music. »
Printing.—22,806 titles and index-slips for, the General, and
3,063 for the Map, Catalogue have been printed during the year.
Incorporation.— General Catalogue.—21,713 title-slips and index-
slips have been incorporated into each of the three copies of this
Catalogue. This has rendered it necessary, in order to maintain as
far as possible the alphabetical arrangement, to re-arrange 45,560
title-slips and index-slips in each copy and to add to each copy 634
new leaves.
The system of monthly incorporation of accessions, inaugurated
in April, 1915, was carried out regularly throughout the year.
Map Catalogue-—2,414 titles have been written for this catalogue,
and 1,488 title-slips have been incorporated into each of three copies
of it. This has rendered it necessary to re-arrange 1,898 title-slips
in each copy and to add to each copy 27 new leaves.
Music Catalogue-—7,507 titles have been written for this
Catalogue. 22,247 title-slips have been relaid on 1,489 new
leaves.
Shelf Catalogue.-—For this Catalogue, in which the title-slips,
mounted on cards, are arranged in order of press-marks, 20,300
have been so mounted, and 22,740 have been incorporated in their
proper order.
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Catalogue of Books printed in the XVth Century.—W ork on this
Catalogue was resumed in July, 1919, and full descriptions of the
incunabula from the first 42 Venetian presses have now been
completed. Rather more than a quarter of the Venetian books
have thus been dealt with.
Ilf. Binding.—The number of volumes and sets of pamphlets
sent to be bound in the course of the year was 13,251, including
4,228 volumes of newspapers. In consequence of the frequent
adoption of the plan of binding two or more volumes in one, the
number of volumes returned was 10,742. In addition, 956 volumes
have been repaired in the binders’ shops.
Besides this, the following binding work has been done in the
Library itself :—4,334 volumes have been repaired, 7,668 cleaned
and polished, 5,152 volumes of reports, parts of periodicals, &c.,
have been bound in a light style of binding.
The following maps, &c., have also been bound or mounted
during the year: oar ise and 80 volumes of the 25-inch
Ordnance Survey have been bound ; in addition, 115 general maps,
in 419 sheets, have been mounted on linen, 180 maps in 644
sheets mounted on cards, and 468 Admiralty Charts mounted on
linen.
56,943 numbers of Colonial Newspapers have been made up into
1,251 parcels, and 1,259 parcels have been tied up and labelled.
74 volumes of the General Catalogue have been broken up and
re-bound. 632 columns have been re-laid, owing to the accumula-
tion of titles under certain headings. 15 volumes of the Music.
Catalogue have been re-bound.
IV. Reading Room Service—The number of volumes replaced
in the General Library after use in the Reading Room was 413,719;
in the King’s Library, 12,507 ; in the Grenville Library, 1,803 ;
in the Map Room, 2,974 ; in the presses in which books are kept
from day to day for the use-of readers, 605,214 ; and in the Oriental
Department, 3,396 ; making a total of 1,039,613 volumes supplied
to readers during the year, exclusive of those to which the readers
have personal access on the shelves of the Reading Room. ‘The
number of readers during the year was 130,198, giving an average
of 431 daily—the room having been open on 302 days.
Newspaper Room.—The number of readers during the year was
10,407, giving a daily average of 35—the room having been open
on 302 days. The number of volumes replaced AC: use was
38,868, giving a daily average of 129 not reckoning volumes
taken from the shelves of the Newspaper Room by the readers
themselves. In addition, 1,100 country newspapers were brought
up to the Library from the Repository at Hendon for the use of
readers.
Map Room.—260 students were admitted to the Map Room.
16 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
Photography.—There were 200 applications for leave to photo-
graph from books in the Library and 601 volumes were supplied
for this purpose.
V. Accessions.—General Library.—23,932 complete volumes
and pamphlets have been added to the General Library during the
year. Of these, 3,377 were presented, 13,060 received by Copy-
right, 311 by Colonial Copyright, 1,600 by International Exchange
and 5,584 acquired by purchase.
71,403 parts or volumes of serial publications and of works in
progress have been added to the General Library. Of these, 6,406
were presented, 49,118 received by Copyright, 150 by Colonial
Copyright, 3,534 by International Exchange, and 12,195 acquired
by purchase.
Maps.—56 atlases, 49 parts of atlases, and 1,505 maps in 4,398
sheets have been added to the collection during the year. Of
these 39 atlases, 24 parts of atlases and 603 maps were presented ;
9 atlases, 25 parts of atlases and 654 maps were received by Copy-
right ; 2 atlases and 16 maps were received by Colonial Copyright ;
and 6 atlases and 232 maps were acquired by purchase.
Music.—9,506 musical publications have been added to the
collection during the year. Of these 21 books were presented,
8,365 books and 659 parts were received by Copyright ; 310 pieces
by Colonial Copyright ; and 23 books and 128 parts acquired by
purchase.
Newspapers.—The number of newspapers published in the
United Kingdom and received under the provisions of the Copy-
right Act during the year was 3,050, comprising 199,107 single.
numbers. Of these newspapers, 1,056 were published in London-
and its suburbs, 1,474 in other parts of England and Wales and in
the Channel Islands, 289 in Scotland, and 231 in Ireland. Two
sets, comprising 311 single numbers, were received by International
xchange ; 35 sets, comprising 4,289 single numbers, by Colonial _
Copyright ; 708 sets, comprising 190,020 single numbers, of
colonial and foreign newspapers have been presented ; and 43 sets,
comprising 8,595 single numbers, have been purchased.
Miscellaneous.—1,649 articles not included in the foregoing
paragraphs have been received, consisting of single sheets, photo-
graphs and other items.
Acquisitions of Special Interest.
The following is a list of the most important and interesting
books acquired by purchase during the year.
(1) Books printed in the 15th century.
Augustinus Datus: Isagogicus libellus in eloquentiz przecepta.
Printed by Philippus de Lavagna, Milan, 1475, and one of the
earliest books produced by his press.
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Thomas Aquinas: De diuinis moribus. Printed by Seuerinus
Ferrariensis, Ferrara, ca. 1475, and possibly the earliest of his
productions.
Albertus de Hyb: Margarita poetica. Printed by Stephan
Planneck, Rome, 1480. Only one earlier book from Plannck’s
press is known to exist.
Martyrologium siue Viola sanctorum. Printed by Nicolaus
Philippi and Marcus Reinhard, Lyons, ca. 1480.
Maurice de Sully, Bishop of Paris: Lexposition des euuangilles
_et des epistres de tout lan translatees de nouueau de latin en
francoys. Printed by Antoine Neyret, Chambéry, 1484. The
earliest of the four dated incunabula, all excessively rare, registered
as having been printed at Chambéry. It contains about fifty wood-
cuts and the present copy is a particularly large and clean one.
Bernardus: Sermons in Dutch. Printed by Petrus de Os,
Zwolle, 1484, 1485. In two parts. A fine woodcut representing
the Virgin and Child and 8. Bernard occurs in each part.
Psalterium latinum cum canticis. Printed by Pierre .Levet,
Paris, 1488.
Joannes Balbus: Catholicon. Printed by Jean du Pré, Lyons,
1492.
Terentius : Comeedize.. Printed by Perrin Le Masson, Lyons,
‘1495.
Altogether 25 Fifteenth Century books were acquired for the
Museum by purchase during the year.
(2) English Books printed before 1640.
The Forme and Maner of subuention or helpyng for pore people,
-deuysed and practysed in the cytie of Hypres in Flaunders, whiche
forme is auctorised by the Emperour, and approved by the facultie
of diuinitie in Paris. Translated out of laten into englishe. Printed
by Thomas Godfray, London, 1535. |
Thomas Phaer: The Regiment of Life. Hdward Whitchurch,
London, 1550.
The Tragedie of Claudius Tiberius Nero, Romes greatest tyrant.
Francis Burton, London, 1607. From the library of Lord Mostyn.
Thomas Heywood: The Rape of Lucrece ... The third im-
pression. Nathaniel Butter, London, 1614. From the library of
Lord Mostyn. A very rare edition.
R. Speed. The Counter Scuffle. Whereunto is added, the
Counter Ratt. Written [in verse] by R. 8. R. Meighens, London,
1628.
Altogether 59 Hnglish books of this period were acquired by
purchase during the year, including numerous pamphlets of his-
torical interest from the Christie Miller collection.
(3) Later English books.
Edmond Wingate: The Use of the Rule of Proportion in
Arithmetique and Geometrie. first published at Paris in the
' French tongue. M. F. for P. Stephens, London, 1645.
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Oliver Wallinby : Planometria or the whole Art of Surveying
of Land. Nathanael Brooks, London, 1650. Really written by
W. Leybourn.
Tears Wip’d Off, or the second essay of the Quakers by way of
poetry : occasioned by the coronation of James and Mary. By
W. P.,a Servant to the Light. J.P. for Henry Playford, London,
1685. This piece was disavowed by William Penn in a specially
issued broadside.
The English Hermit, or the Adventures of one Philip Quarll.
London, 1727. A dedication copy, bearing the name of the author,
Peter Longueville, hitherto unknown.
(4) Early Spanish books.
Aurea expositio hymnorum, studio Jacobi Alora correcta,
annotata a Petro Aguesalaga, 1506. Libri minores de nouo
correcti per Antonium Nebrissensem, ca. 1506. Orationes ex
diuino officio collectae, 1507. All three books printed by Arnaldus
Guillen de Brocar at Logrofio.
Antonio de Aranda: Verdadera informacion de la tierra santa.
Juan de Ayala, Toledo, 1537.
Pedro Mexia: Silua de varia lecion. M. Nucio, Antwerp,
1544.
Pedro de Medina: Arte de nauegar. Francisco Fernandez de
Cordoua, Valladolid, 1545. A fine copy of the very rare first
edition of this famous work on navigation.
La Regla y establecimiento de la Orden de la Caualleria de
Santiago del Espada. Andres de Angulo, Alcala de Henares, 1565.
A very fine copy of an early edition of the rules of this Order.
Donations.
The following donations may be mentioned :—
Jacobo Sannazaro: Libro pastorale nominato Arcadia. Venice,
1502. In the original pasteboard covers, each cover decorated with
a woodcut ornamental design. Presented by C. W. Dyson Perrins,
Esq.
Girolamo di Portia: The Spirituall Conflict, Antwerp, 1598,
and seven other Roman Catholic books dating from 1564 to 1605,
walled up after the Gunpowder Plot by the Tresham family .in
Rushton Hall, Northamptonshire, and unwalled in 1828. Presented
by T. B. Clarke-Thornhill, Esq.
Walter Thornbury: The Life of J. M. W. Turner, London,
1862. Extra illustrated by John Platt, Llandudno, 1899. In
thirteen volumes. Bequeathed by John Platt, Ksq.
A collection o£ Old Charts and Maps. Presented by the Marquis
of Lansdowne.
A Collection of Siamese Postage Stamps, formed by the late
R. W. Harold Row, Demonstrator in Zoology, King’s College,
University of London. Presented in his memory by his mother, Mrs.
Eliza Row.
Alfred W, Pollard.
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DEPARTMENT OF MANUSCRIPTS. 19
DEPARTMENT OF MANUSCRIPTS:
1. Catalogue of Additions—The following MSS. acquired in
1914 have been described and indexed :—Additional 38,981-38,986,
38,997-39,020, 39,049-39,052, 39,056-39,059, 39,061-39,063,
39,067, 39,070, 39,071, 39,076-39,078, 39,081-39,090, 39,097.
Of those acquired in 1915, Additional 39,172, 39,178, 39,187-
d9,211, 39,213, 39,215, 39,255; of those acquired in 1916,
Additional 39,256, 39,317, 39,319-39,321, 39,325, and Egerton
2,949-2,951 ; of those acquired in 1917, Additional 39,547, 39,548,
39,008-39,962, 39,575, 39,576, 39,585-39,597, 39,638, 39,639,
39,643, 39,646, 39,665, 39,671-39,674, and Egerton 2,974, 2,975 ;
of those acquired in 1918, Additional 39,775-39,777, 39,780-
39,793 ; and of those acquired in 1919, Additional 39,828-39,839,
39,863, 39,871-39,904, and Hgerton 3,022-3,024, have been
described and indexed.
2. Catalogue of Greek Papyri.—Papyri 2,078-2,102, acquired
in 1919, have been provisionally transcribed.
3. Catalogue of the Royal and King’s MSS.—Sheets K-Y of
Vol. III, completing the descriptions and beginning the general
index, have been printed off, and sheets Z, Aa are in type. The
revision of the index of initia has been continued.
4. Catalogue of Irish MSS.—Additional 39,665 has been
described.
5. Catalogue of Charters.—Additional Charters 97,625-57,768,
acquired in 1913, have been described and indexed.
6. Binding.—Sixty-five additional MSS. and one Egerton MS.,
newly acquired, and sixty-two MSS. of the old collections have
been bound, repaired, or lettered, together with twenty-eight Books
of Reference and Catalogues. Five Charters and Rolls have been
repaired.
7. Verification—The entire collection of MSS. has been verified
by comparison with the Shelf-lists.
8. Reproductions.—Three sets of Pictorial ;Postcards (Months’
Occupations, Twelfth Century Initials, and Henry VI’s Psalter)
have been issued. Three miniatures have been selected for re-
production in colours; two of these (Royal 15 D. II, f. 3, and
Additional 25,698, f. 8) have been passed, the third (Additional
18,850, f. 65) is in course of preparation.
9. Stamping, folioing, and placinga—42 Additional MSS., 8
Arundel MSS., 2,594 Charters and 97 Books of Reference have
been stamped. The total number of impressions made was 8,798.
223 MSS. have been folioed, with a total of 41,915 folios.
21,098 slips have been numbered.
20 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
Twenty-seven newly acquired MSS. have been placed. All have
been press-marked and entered in Hand- and Shelf-lists. 1,121
Additional Charters and Rolls have been placed, and have been
entered in the Hand-list. Thirty-seven seals and casts have been
provided with boxes, placed, and entered in Hand- and Drawer-lists.
10. Books of Rejerence.—134 volumes and parts have been
received, catalogued and placed. ©
Hight volumes and parts of Facsimiles were added to the series
now deposited in the Department and available for the use of
readers.
11. Consultation of MSS.—17,946 MSS. and 3,015 Charters
and Seals have been consulted in the Students’ Room. The number
of Students was 6,013. In addition 2,012 Oriental MSS. have
been consulted in the Students’ Room by 801 Students.
12. MSS. photographed.—616 MSS. (including Papyri, Charters,
and Seals) were allowed to be photographed, with a total = 2,456
photographs taken.
13. Reconstruction.—Harly in the year the restoration to their
usual places of the MSS., Charters, Papyri, Seals, and Casts, which
had been sent to Aberystwyth, or removed to the basement, as a
precaution against hostile aircraft, was completed.
A selection of the most valuable MSS. has been placed perma-
nently in safes.
“ehibitions.—In the course of the year the temporary
exhibition was replaced by the permanent exhibition as before the
war (with a few slight modifications, mainly due to recent
acquisitions of exceptional public interest).
15. Acquisitions. The number of Manuscripts and Documents,
&e., acquired during the year has been :—
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Additional MSS. = = - = = = - 113
Egerton MSS. - ~ = = = - = - 6
Charters and Rolls - = u, = 3 = ~ 2715
Papyri - = 2 = = = 5 = Zo.
Detached Seals and (tee = = = = ~ Tt:
The additions this year, if not so many as usual, are of more than .
average importance. _By the generosity of Mr. Henry Yates
Thompson, whose unequalled private collection of illuminated MSS.
is being dispersed, the Museum received the gift of the very fine
East Anglian Psalter of the early 14th century, which was executed
for the St. Omer family. An even finer MS. executed in France
about the same period or a little earlier, The Sainte Abbaye, with
other tracts, was acquired by purchase at Mr. Yates Thompson’s sale,
together with an Italian illuminated MS. of Brunetto Latini’s Trésor
and other treatises, dated 1425. The former purchase brings to-
gether again the two parts of one splendid volume, for the Somme
Le Roi which has been in the Museum since 1869 is part of oe
same book.
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DEPARTMENT OF MANUSCRIPTS. 2A:
Another munificent donation was received from Mr. (now Sir)
James Buchanan, who purchased for 5,0001 at Sotheby’s auction-
rooms the Master’s Log of H.M.S. Victory, from Sept., 1805, to
Jan., 1806, including entries relating to the battle of Trafalgar.
Other gifts and purchases include :—
Twenty-four Greek papyri, nearly all from the archives of Zeno,
a Philadelphia official of the 3rd century B.C.
Fragments of an 11th century martyrology (N. France) and of
Edward Grim’s Life of St. Thomas of Canterbury, &e.
An original bull of Pope Lucius II to the Abbey of St. Omer,
1144.
Original instructions from Margaret, Duchess of Burgundy, to
her deputies to treat with Henry [V, 1404.
Letter of Henry VI to the town of Schiedam, 1436.
Over forty original letters of Sir John Fastolf and _ other
documents from the Paston family archives, 1435-1472.
Wardrobe-book of Henry VIL, 1511-1512. Also Proceedings
at the Coronation of Edward VI, 1547. Both purchased from the
Bridgewater Fund.
Letter-book of Sir Thomas Chamberlayne, Ambassador to Spain,
_ 1559-1561.
Collections relating to Martin mae S voyages.
The Tresham Papers, chiefly of Sir Thomas Tresham, father of
Francis Tresham who was arrested on suspicion of complicity 3 in the
Gunpowder Plot. The papers were found in 1828 concealed in a
wall at Rushton Hall, co. Northt. Presented by T. B. Clarke-
Thornhill, Esq.
Papers of Sir Charles Cornwallis, tempp. Jas. I and Chas. I,
transcribed by his son.
“ Truth cleared of Scandals,” a work of the 17th cent. Quaker,
Richard Farnworth.
Copies by Samuel Pepys, in his cypher, of evidence concerning
the birth of the Old Pretender ; also his memorandum to the King
about the Navy, 1686.
A letter-book of Royal letters of William III, 1695-1701.
The original correspondence between Jonathan Swift and Esther
Vanhomrigh (Vanessa). From the Morrison sale.
Proceedings of the Prize Court of Barbados, relating to capture
of French ships, 1744.
A naval signal-book, 1779, and other nautical MSS. Presented
by the Marquess of Lansdowne.
Entry-book of correspondence relating to Tanjore, 1782.
Entry-book of correspondence of the Embassy to Tipu Sultan,
1783-1784, 2 vols.
Memoirs by Sir Alexander Cuming concerning his relations with
the Cherokee Indians.
Diaries and other papers of Witten Hastings, supplementary to
the large collections already in the Museum. eed by Miss
Marian Winter.
22 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
Letters of Lord Grenville to the Austrian Ambassador, 1793-
1801.
Letter-book of Gen. Gordon Forbes in San Domingo, 1795-1796.
Reminiscences and impressions of European travel after Waterloo
by Major Frye. Presented by Mademoiselle Gatayes, of Paris.
Correspondence of Sir John Hall, Inspector-General of Hospitals
in the Crimea, with Florence Nightingale and others.
Autograph letter of Gen. Hugh Wheeler from Cawnpore,
immediately before the outbreak, 1857.
Autograph MS. of Samuel Butler’s novel, ‘The ey of All
Flesh.” Presented by H. Festing Jones, Hsq.
Autographs of Presidents of the United States, from Washington
to Pres. Wilson. Begqueathed by Zenas Crane, Esq., of Dalton,
Mass.
Court-rolls and reeves’ accounts of Greenham and Kittisford, co.
Som., 1335-1480.
An illuminated deed of Philip and Mary, with portraits.
Grant of Arms to Edw. Barker, 1580.
Copies by Ralph Starkey in 1595 of original charters relating to
Cheshire.
Thirty-four Spanish charters, 12th-17th centt.
Twenty-six maps of Hnglish manors or estates, 1669-1810.
From the Farnborough Fund.
Italian cantatas by Scarlatti and others, 17th cent.
Proserpina Rapita, drama with music, by Antonio Ottoboni,
1713. 3 vols. From the Farnborough Fund.
Confitebor by Antonio Lotti.
An organ-book, 1724, containing anthems by Tallis and others.
Two operas by J. F. Lampe, circ. 1732.
Concerto Buffo by Wilhelm Bach, autograph.
Treatise on the construction of flutes, in the autograph of
Theobald Boehm. Presented by the executors of Christopher Welch,
Esq.
3 Julius P. Gilson.
DEPARTMENT OF ORIENTAL PRINTED BOOKS AND MSS& 23
DEPARTMENT OF ORIENTAL PrintED Books anp MSS.
Arrangement and Cataloguing.—The number of the sheets of the
Catalogue of Persian Printed Books sent to press in 1919 was 1.
The number of Titles written for the Catalogues is :—Arabic,
109 ; Assamese, 26; Bengali, 435: Burmese, 73; Chinese, 92 ;
Gujarati, 404; Hebrew, 155; Hindi, 578; Hindustani, 178 ;
Japanese, 39 ; Javanese, 4 ; Kachin, 5; Kanarese, 188; Karen, 21;
ashen? io;>Kond, 2; Kurdish, 3; Lahu,. 3; Malay, 62 ;
Malayalam, 67 ; Maltese, 2 ; Marathi, 284 ; Mardia, 2 ; Mundari, 8 ;
Naga, 5; Oriya, 110; Pali, 45; Panjabi, 16; Persian, 1,203 ;
Prakrit, 102 ; Sanskrit, 816; Santali, 11; Sindhi, 2; Sinhalese,
33; Syriac, 6; Talaing, 6; Tamil, 721; Telugu, 551; Tibetan,
ee tle: Lurkish: 2d ssLotal: 6,453:
One thousand four hundred and thirty-four Chinese MSS. have
been catalogued for the Hand-list of the Stein Collection.
Thirty-seven short descriptions of MSS. have been entered in the
Descriptive List, the Register, and the Classed Inventory.
Twenty-five MSS. (4,832 folios) and one printed book (128
folios) have been folioed.
Binding.—The number of Printed Books and MSS. sent to the
binders is :—Arabic, Persian, and Hindustani Books, 16 ; Armenian
Books, 3 ; Chinese Books, 3 ; Coptic Books, 1 ; English Books, 1 ;
Hebrew Books, 29; Javanese Books, 1 ; Malay Books, 1; Books
in Sanskrit and other Indian languages, 189; Syriac Books, 1 ;
Tibetan Books, 1 ; Turkish Books, i ; MSS., 314.
Students.—The number of visits of Students to the MS. Students’
Room during the year is 888. The number of Oriental MSS. used
by them is 2,403, andthe number of Oriental Printed Books used in
the Reading Room 38,386.
Photography.—Fifty-nine applications have been made to photo-
graph books and MSS. in this Department.
Additions.—The number of volumes, etc., added to the collections
of the Department during the year (exclusive of the Stein Collection)
is 2,768, of which 2,361 are Printed Books and 407 are MSS.
Of the Printed Books, 57 were bought; 2,059 were received
under the India Copyright Act ; 99 were received under the Colonial
Copyright Acts from Ceylon and Hongkong; and 146 were
presented. Of the MSS., 398 were bought and the remainder
presented.
24 a ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
The MSS. are as follows :—
Arabic - - = 2 2 o 298
Chinese - = at MR z i 3
Hindustani - = 2 = 2 ah
Kurdish - = a ae sf if
Pali - - = - é A 9
Persian - - - - - - 96
Persian and Turkish - - - it
Sanskrit - = é . z 2
Shan = - = * x 3 1
Sinhalese = - 2 z 1
Turkish - = S z A 1
Total - a “= a A407
The Stein Collection, comprising a portion of the MSS. brought
home by Sir M. Aurel Stein, K.C.I.H., from his second expedition
to Chinese Turkestan, consists of about 6,000 Chinese rolls and
documents anda considerable number of documents and _ literary
fragments in Prakrit, Sanskrit, and local languages.
The most important acquisitions are :—
Arabic MSS.—(1) A MS. on vellum, containing an apparently
unknown Arabic version of the Acts of the Apostles, v. 2. to end,
and of the Catholic Epistles. 9-10th century. 12°.
(2) Mujmil al-lughah, a lexicon by Ahmad b.al-Faris al- Kazwini.
10th century (possibly older). Fol.
(3) Jana al-jannatain, a lexicon by Fakhr al-Din Abu al-Ma‘ali
Muh.b.al-Mas‘td al-Kassam. Copied A. H. 593 (A.D. 1197). 8°.
No other copy seems to be on record.
(4) Diwan or poems of Ahmad b.Muh.Abu Bakr Nasih al-Din
Arrajani, Abmad b.Muh.b.Fadil b.‘Abd al-Khalik al-Katib, and
al-Khalil Muh.b.Zaid al-Khaziz. 12-13th century. 8°. Contents
are partly unknown.
(5) Akrabadin or pharmacopeeia of Baghdad, by Abu al-Hasan
Hibat Allah b.Sa‘id. Copied a.w. 625 (A. D2! 1223). oes aD
other complete copy appears on record.
(6) Kuwa al-adwiyah, another pharmacopeia by the same
author. Copied a.H. 654 (a.D. 1256). 38°. No other copy seems
to be known.
(7) Shara’i‘ al-islam, a standard manual of Shi‘ah jurisprudence
by Ja‘far b.Muh.al-Hilli, in the author’s handwriting, with mar-
ginal notes by another writer. Copied a.m. 662 (A.D. 1264).
Extremely valuable.
(8) A cyclopzedia of physics, ethics, and metaphysics, styled in
the last section Bayan al-hakk, and wanting the end of pt. 1 and
beginning of pt. 2. 13th century. Fol. Otherwise unknown.
(9) Al-Mukhtar, the diwan or poems of Kadi al-Sa‘id Abu
al- Kasim Hibat Allah b.Kadi al-Rashid Abu al-Fadl Ja‘far ibn
Sana al-Mulk. 13th century. 8°. Very rare.
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(10) Sunan, the Traditions of Muhammad compiled by Abw
_ Da’tid Sulaiman al-Sijistani, in 10 juz’. 13th century. Fol.
(11) Majazat al-Kur’an, an exposition of the metaphors and
other figures of speech used in the Kur’an, by al-Sharif Rida
Muh.b.al-Husain al-Musawi. 13th century. 12°. No copy seems
to be recorded.
(12) Rw’ts al-masa’il, a catechism on fundamentals of Islam.
13-14th century. 12°. Apparently otherwise unknown.
(13) Lives of Muhammad, his relatives of the tribe of Kuraish,
and others, by Muh.b.Sa‘“d b.‘Ali ibn al-Hajjaj. Copied a.m. 728
(A.D. 1328). 4°. Apparently not known.
(14) Zubdat al-fikrah, a history of Islam down to a.p. 724, by
al-Amir Rukn al-Din Baibars al-Manstri al-Dawadar. Vol. 3, from
42 to 121 aw. 14th century. 8°. No other copy of vol. 3
seems to be on record.
(15) Tahdib al-kamal, being Ibn al-Najjar’s Kitab al-kamal,
biographies of ‘Traditionists, revised and greatly augmented by
al-Mizzi. Vol. 1. 14-15th century. 4°. Very scarce.
(16) Diwan of Muh.ibn al-Ablah. Copied a.w. 881 (A.D.
1476). 8°. No other complete copy of this collection of poems
seems to be known.
(17) Matalib al-swul, lives of descendants of Muhammad.
Copied a.H. 941 (A.D. 1534-5). 8°.- No copy appears* to be
_ recorded. .
(18) A history of the ‘Abbasi Caliphs from Hariin al-Rashid to
Mutawakkil, by an anonymous Tunisian author ; with appendices on
the Governors of Tunis under the ‘Abbasis, etc. 18th century.
4°, Not otherwise known.
(19) Diwan or poems of Ghulam ‘Ali Azad, styled Hassan i
Hind. 18th century. 8°. Apparently not on record.
(20) Al-Tiraz, a lexicon by ‘Ali Sadr al-Din al-Husaini
al-Hasani. Copied a.#. 1277 (a.p. 1860-61). Fol. Apparently
not otherwise known.
Chinese MSS. and Books.—(1) About 6,000 MSS. and prints of
religious and secular literature, documents, etc., acquired by Sir
M. Aurel Stein in the course of his second expedition to Chinese
Turkestan.
Persian MSS.—(1) A work on Moslem theology and ethics,
composed about 500 a.a. 13th century. 4°. Apparently other-
wise unknown.
(2) Kulliyat or Divan, the collected poems of Khvaju. Copied
A.H. 970. 4°. Contains some poems of great rarity.
(3) Kitab al-bahirah, an encyclopedia of history, biography,
ete., by Fuzini Astarabadi. Copied a.a. 1263 (a.D. 1847). Fol.
Extremely rare.
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(4) Vaka’i‘, a metrical history of Muhammad, ‘Ali, Fatimah,
Hasan, Husain, etc., by Raji Kirmani. Copied a.m. 1263 (a.D.
1847). Fol. Exceedingly rare.
(5) Si fasl, poems by ‘Attar. Copied a.a. 1298 (4.p. 1881).
12°. Apparently not otherwise known.
(6) Silsilah i salatin i ‘usmaniyyah, a history of the Ottoman
Sultans from the foundation of the dynasty to 725 a.n., by Khair
Ullah Efendi. 19th century. 8°. Hxtremely rare.
Persian and Turkish MS.—(1) The Masnavi poem of Sultan
Valad, a Persian exposition of his father Jalal al-Din Riimi’s mystic
poem Masnavi i ma‘navi (including in pt. 1, which is usually styled
Rabab-namah, 156 verses in Seljuk Turkish). Copied a.n. 965
(A.D. 1558). 8°. Rare and valuable.
Sanskrit MS.—(1) Bhagavata-purana, written on a roll of thin
Indian paper 3% inches wide, richly illuminated and profusely
illustrated. About 1780 a.p. Bequeathed by Miss M. Winter (from
the Hastings Papers).
L. D. Barnett.
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DEPARTMENT OF PRINTS AND DRAWINGS.
T.— Arrangement and Cataloguing, Sc.
Arrangement.—188 drawings and 2,088 prints recently acquired
have been incorporated with the divisions of the collection to which
they severally belong.
133 Dutch and Flemish drawings from the Malcolm collection
have been placed with the drawings by the same artists that were
previously in the collection. The Malcolm collection is thereby
completely incorporated with the other drawings.
41 books of drawings and prints have been placed.
The etchings and engravings by Le Clerc, Picart and Ridinger
have been re-arranged, after the addition of numerous specimens
presented in 1917 by Lady Lucas.
A selection of engravings of the French school printed in
colours has been mounted and arranged in ten solanders as the first
instalment of a new series of select colour prints.
The work of mounting and lettering the Select Mezzotints of
the Cheylesmore collection has been completed.
Aquatints of the Dutch, Flemish and German schools have been
separated from etchings, as the first instalment of a new series of
aquatints placed as a separate class.
The drawings by Diirer have been marked with the numbers of
Lippmann’s publication ; the drawings of Rembrandt and _ his
school with the numbers of the catalogue by Mr. A. M. Hind ; and
the etchings of Whistler with the numbers and dates of Mr. EH. G.
Kennedy’s catalogue.
The work of re-arranging the engravings by Raimondi in the
order of Bartsch has been begun.
Catalogues and Indexes.—Work has been resumed on the
catalogue of Dutch and Flemish Drawings, and study of the
drawings by Rubens for this purpose is in progress.
Work has been resumed on the catalogue of British engraved
portraits, and the preparation of the fifth volume is in progress.
The work of indexing foreign portraits contained in books of
prints has been continued.
The work of inserting the new references to case, shelf and
number in the indexes of artists has been continued, and this has
now been completely done with the exception of the German index.
An index of painters and engravers represented in the Lucas
collection has been completed.
Exhibition.—The exhibition gallery remained closed throughout
the year.
Registration.—4,244 items have been entered in the Register of
Acquisitions.
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Stamping and Mounting.—4,498 drawings, prints, &c., recently
acquired, have been impressed with the departmental stamp and
references to the Register.
186 drawings have been mounted.
128 select colour prints of the French school have been mounted.
55 etchings by Sir Charles Holroyd, 38 woodcuts by L. Rodo,
9 etchings and lithographs by R. Schwabe, and other prints by
modern artists in smaller numbers have been mounted.
Numerous prints and drawings have been mended and cleaned.
Students.—The total number of visitors admitted to the Print
Room during the year ended December 31st, 1919, was 2,588.
Photographing.—142 applications were made for leave to photo-
oraph, and 744 photographs were taken.
I1.— Acquisitions.
The total number of prints, drawings, books, &e., aequired
during the year was 8,237. The most important acquisition was.
that of a selection of fine and rare engravings and woodeuts of the
Italian, German, Flemish and French Schools from the collection at
Northwick Park, Worcestershire, formed in the first half of the 19th
century by Lord Northwick. These are mentioned, with other
acquisitions, under the various schools.
ITALIAN SCHOOL.
Drawings.
Parentino, Bernardo. Composition in the style-of an antique
relief ; captives seated beneath a trophy of arms, and Victory
writing on a shield (a companion drawing, of similar subject, is.
in Christ Church Library, Oxford) ; pen and ink. Presented by
the late Sir Edward Poynter, Bart., P.R.A.
Piazzetta, Giovanni Battista. Group of figures ; black chalk.
Presented by A. G. B. Russell, Hsq., Rouge Crowe.
Engravings.
Anonymous, 15th Century. A white horse rearing, and a
draped female statute; with the initials F. A., probably not a
signature. From the Sykes, Lloyd and Northwick collections.
One other impression is known, at Rome.
Anonymous, Milanese School (after Zoan Andrea). Two upright
panels of ornament, copies of B. xii. 308, 27 and 309, 30.
Northwick collection.
Barbari, Jacopo de. The Sacrifice to Priapus, B. 21. Northwick
collection.
Brescia, Giovanni Antonio da. Trophy of arms, undescribed.
Panel of ornament inscribed ‘‘ Victoria Augusta,” after Nicoletto da
Modena, also undescribed, but Bartsch (xiii. 330, 22) describes a
woodcut copy of this engraving.
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Campagnola, Domenico. Martyrdom of St. Catherine, B. 6.
Very fine impression. Sykes, Lloyd and Northwick collections.
Caraglio, Jacopo. The Rape of the Sabines, after Bandinelli,
B. 63 ; the rare unfinished state, from the Spencer collection.
Modena, Nicoletto da. Neptune, B. 49. Sykes, Lloyd and
Northwick collections. ;
Monogrammist H. F. EH. Christ disputing with the Doctors,
B. 2, dry-point ; very fine early impression. Buckingham and
Northwick collections.
Montagna, Benedetto (after). Shepherd blowing a horn. Copy
in reverse of B. 27. Northwick collection.
Raimondi, Carlo. Potrait of the engraver Toschi ; proof before
letters. Presented by Campbeli Dodgson, Hsq., C.B.E.
Robetta, Christofano. St. Laurence, not described by Bartsch.
Storck, Sykes, Lloyd and Northwick collections.
Uberti, Lucantonio degli. Virgin and Child between two
Saints. Pass. v. 69,67. Lloyd and Northwick collections.
Etchings.
Tiepolo, Giovanni Battista. 40 etchings, chiefly from the ‘“ Vari
Capricci”’ and “‘Scherzi di Fantasia.” The latter set was hitherto
imperfectly represented in the department, which now possesses,
with the addition of this gift, all of Tiepolo’s etchings in at least one
state. Presented by C. H. Shannon, Hsq., A.K.A.
Tiepolo, Giovanni Domenico. 13 etchings, partly original,
partly after the elder Tiepolo. Presented by Charles Shannon, Esq.,
A.R.A.
Voodcuts.
Andreani, Andrea. The Triumph of the Faith, after Titian ;
large framed woodcut in eight sheets (first edition of this version of
the subject) from the Poynter collection. Presented by Messrs. P.
& D. Colnaght nd Obach.
Jacobus (Argentoratensis). The Madonna enthroned between
St. Sebastian and St. Roch, after Benedetto Montagna. Large and
exceedingly rare woodcut, of which there is another impression at
Paris. Pass. v. 159, 58. Buckingham and Northwick collections.
Ruina, Gasparo. A battle, undescribed. Lloyd, Ottley and
Northwick collections.
Vecellio, Cesare. The Doge and Signoria of Venice giving
audience to an ambassador. Signed C. V.; published by Ludovico
“iletti, 1575. Described by Nagler as being after Tintoretto.
Bequeathed by Sir Hdward Poynter, Bart., P.RA.
Prints arranged to illustrate the works of Masters.
Tiepolo, Giovanni Battista. Christ falling under the weight of
the cross. Engraved by Giuliano Giampiccoli. Presented by
Charles Shannon, Esq., A.R.A.
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GERMAN SCHOOL.
Drawings.
Diirer, Albrecht. Christ as Man of Sorrows; pen and ink.
From the Hebich and Locker-Lampson collections.
Engravings.
Anonymous, 15th. century. Christ before Pilate, with the
scourging and crowning with thorns in the background. Undeseribed,,
but belonging to a Passion set mentioned by Lehrs in Repertorium,.
fir Kunstwissenschaft, xiv. 207. Balmanno and Northwick col-.
lections.
Anonymous, in the manner of B. Beham. Small ornament
print with two female torsos. Undescribed.
Anonymous “‘little master.” ;Judgment of Paris. Undescribed.
Master E. 8. Virgin and Child, Lehrs 67. Very fine im-.
pression of an engraving otherwise known only in the Albertina.
SS. Philip and James, Lehrs 96. SS. Bartholomew and Matthew,,.
Lehrs 98. St. Michael, Lehrs 152. All from the Northwick.
collection.
Master B. S. (“ Barthel Schon.) Wild woman and child,
undescribed. Buckingham and Northwick collections.
Meckenem, Israhel van. SS. Cosmas and Damian. B. 180.
Very rare ; fine impression of the first state. Bequeathed by A. G..
W. Murray, Esq. The lovers, B. 181; woman spinning, B. 183 ;
both from the Northwick collection.
Mey, Raphael de. The temptation of St. Anthony, after
Schongauer. Northwick collection.
Five engravings by German artists of the 16th century known.
only by their monograms. From the Northwick collection.
Etchings.
J. E. Ridinger. Five of a series of large etchings of animals.
Thienemann 187—189, 192, 194.
Woodcuts.
A wooden box ornamented with coloured German woodcuts of
the early 16th century ; a manner of applying such prints of which
the Department has hitherto possessed no example. Presented by
V. Koch, Esq.
Two original wood-blocks by Diirer: The Martyrdom of the
10,000 Christians, B. 117, and “ Ercules,” B. 127. Presented by
Junius S. Morgan, Esq.
Anonymous, 15th century. The Mass of St. Gregory, coloured,
with long xylographice text; undescribed, but Schreiber 1460, at.
Munich, is a copy of this, omitting many details. Northwick.
collection.
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Anonymous, in the style of Diirer, early 16th century. The
Lamentation for Christ, a very important undescribed woodcut in
perfect preservation. Northwick collection.
Baldung, Hans. Christopher, Margrave of Baden, 1511. B. 59.
Mariette and Northwick collections.
Baldung, Hans (after). Rare copy of a still rarer original wood-
cut of the arms of the Baldung family.
Baldung, Hans (wrongly attributed to). Christ as the Light of
. the World, Meyer’s Kiinstler-Lexikon, II. 631, No. 43.
Beham, Hans Sebald. The Feast of Herodias, Pauli 832 ; the
only known impression of the finished state with the address of
Albrecht Glockendon. Northwick collection.
Burgkmair, Hans. The Emperor Maximilian, equestrian por-
trait, B. 32, printed in two colours. Northwick collection. Five
of the Seven Virtues, B. 48-54, completing the set (modern im-
pressions).
Cranach, Lucas (School of). Lions and hares.
Diirer, Albrecht (School of). The Sacred Monogram and four
Saints, described ‘‘ Der Titel Des Creutzs in drey sprach.”
Schaiifelein, Hans. A battle; portion of a large woodcut, B.
102.
Traut, Wolf. The Nativity, 1511, and twelve scenes from the
Passion. Pass. III. 206, 265; the complete sheet.
Wechtlin, Hans. St. Jerome, undescribed.
ScHOOLS OF THE NETHERLANDS.
Drawings.
Anonymous, ca. 1540. The Rape of the Sabines ; pen and ink
with indigo wash.
Bloemen, J. F. van (‘Orizzonte”’). Nine landscape com-
positions introducing monuments of Ancient Rome; pen and ink.
Presented by W. Barclay Squire, Esq., F.S.A., through the National
Art-Collections Fund.
Dupont, Pieter. Study of a cart horse; charcoal.
Laer, Pieter van (‘“‘ Bamboccio”). Turkey and ducks. Black
chalk and Indian ink wash.
Rubens, Petrus Paulus. Study of an antique cameo; pen and
bistre, signed—the drawing has been engraved.
Saftleven, Herman. View in Utrecht; red chalk and bistre
wash.
Visscher, Nicolaes Jansz. Hxecution of the Gunpowder Plot
conspirators ; pen and bistre, with bistre wash ; original sketch for
the highly finished etching of the subject by Visscher.
Engravings.
Allaert Claesz. Ornament print in two compartments with the
Virgin and Child and St. Anne, undescribed. St. Mary Magdalen,
undescribed. Cleopatra, Aum. 104. Winged female figure with
a
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sceptre, and Cupids. Aum. 118, second state. All from the North-
wick collection.
Coornhert, Dirk V. Hercules and Cacus, 1554.
Voet, Alexander (published by). SS. Peter and Paul.
Htchings.
Bauer, Marius. An Oriental Pasha.
Bruycker, Jules de. Kermesse macabre en Flandre. Presented
by Campbell Dodgson, Esq., C.B.E.
Dupont, Pieter. Highteen original etchings (horses, oxen, land-
scape, architecture).
_Woodcuts.
Cornelisz, Jacob. ‘Two of the rare series of the Life of the
Virgin ; five of the round Passion (B. 5, 7-9, 11) in the early state
with the dates ; a late impression of B. 11 with border of fruit, «c.,
from the edition of 1651; St. John, undescribed, from a_ rare
series of the Apostles; one of the series of Counts of Flanders,
Pass. 122, with text at the foot.
Heylen, Gonzales van. Decorative design with bust of Apelles,
after G. Maes, engraved for the artist’s reception into the Guild of
St. Luke, at Antwerp, 1694.
Jegher, Jan Cristoffel. Forty woodcuts after A. Sallaert, from
a book published at Antwerp in 1649.
- Various woodeutters. Nineteen woodcuts after A. Sallaert, from
a book published in 1654 (proofs on thin paper), and a series of the
four Evangelists, after the same.
All the above are from the Northwick collection.
Delstanche, Albert. Proofs on Japanese paper of twenty illus-
trations to C. de Coster’s “ Adventures of Tyl Ulenspiegel.” Pre-
sented by the Artist.
FRENCH SCHOOL.
Drawings.
Corot, Jean Baptiste Camille. Landscape with a figure gather-
ing wood ; black chalk (study for picture in the National Gallery,
No. 2626, * Salting Beees)). Presented by H. Van den Bergh,
Esq., through the National An- Collections Fund.
Greuze, Jean Baptiste. Group of three figures, two of whom
are fighting with poniards ; pen and ink and Indian ink wash, signed.
Robert, Nicolas. Six drawings of birds ; black and red chalk.
Eingravings.
Master C. C. (Corneille de Lyon?) The Last Judgment, R.-D. 6;
very fine impression, from the Northwick collection.
- Duvet, Jean. St. Peter and Moses, B. 9, R.-D. 19; very rare,
from the Northwick collection.
DEPARTMENT OF PRINTS AND DRAWINGS. 33
Janinet, Francois. La baraque rustique, after Ostade, printed in
colours.
Robert, Nicolas. Recueil d’Oyseaux les plus rares du pare de
Versailles, 1676.
Sitchings.
Degas, H.G. E. Loges d’actrices. Presented by Frank Stoop,
Esq. Les Blanchisseuses. Presented by C. Ricketts, Esq. Au
Louvre, Musée des Antiques.
Woodcuts.
Beltrand, Camille. Portraits of Gerard de Nerval and J. J.
Rousseau, printed in colours. Presented by the Artist.
Chalandre, Fernand. ‘Twenty-four small original woodcuts,
_ views in Nevers and various subjects. Presented by the Artist.
Gusman, Pierre. Ten original woodcuts, of which three are
printed in colours. Presented by the Artist.
Pissarro, Paul Emile. Hight’ original woodcuts (landscape,
poultry, &e.), Presented by the Artist.
AMERICAN SCHOOL.
Htchings.
Benson, Frank W. Twenty original etchings (wild duck, other
birds, portraits, book-plates). Presented by the Artist.
Lithographs.
Brown, Bolton. Thirty-seven original lithographs (figures,
landseapes, &c.). Presented by the Artist.
Watson, Ernest. Portrait of Bolton Brown. Presented by the
Artist.
Foreten Artists RESIDENT IN ENGLAND.
Drawings.
Loutherbourg, P. J. de, R.A. (A sketch-book “of 97 leaves,
containing numerous views drawn on the Thames above London and
at Althorp, This book was formerly attributed to Girtin, but is
undoubtedly of earlier date, and there is strong intetnal evidence for
Loutherbourg’s authorship). Presented by F. Treharne James, Esq.
Roussel, Théodore. Five pen and ink and pencil drawings of
Phaethon and the horses of the Sun, and a decorative design with
stags, used in his etchings. Presented by the Artist.
Engravings.
Merigot, J., Colonna Square, Rome, in Carnival time, after La
Chesnaye, 1804. Aquatint, coloured. Presented by J. P. Heseltine,
Esq.
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Etchings.
Legros, Alphonse. St. John, one of three impressions only.
Ruine Romaine, first and third states.
Roussel, Théodore. A collection of 114 rare and specially
selected proofs of etchings (figures, portraits, landscapes, ornamental
frames, &c.), including nine trial proofs of the colour print ‘ Dawn.”
Partly purchased, partly presented by the Artist and by Campbell
Dodgson, Esq., C.B.E.
Woodcuts.
Urushibara, Y. A portfolio of woodcuts of Bruges, after F.
Brangwyn, R.A., and ‘‘ The Bridge,” a single subject after the same,
printed in colours.
Prints arranged to illustrate the Works of Masters.
Miiller, J. S. Twelve views of the Castle of Herrenhausen,
1752, engraved by Pars.
BritisH SCHOOL.
Drawings.
Beardsley, A. ‘The Toilet of Salome” ; penandink. Bequeath-
ed by the late Robert Ross, Esq., to the National Art- Collections Fund
tor the British Museum.
Bone, M. Seventy-one drawings made as official artist on the
Western Front ; seven drawings of Munition Works ; twenty-eight
of Naval subjects and seventeen various and minor drawings.
Presented by H.M. Government.
Constable, J.. R.A. Studies of moor-hens rising from the
water ; oil colour on paper. Study of leaves ; oil colour on paper. °
Study of leaves ; oil colour on canvas. Study of flowers ; oil colour
on canvas. Three studies of water lilies ; oil colour on paper.
Sketch in a wood ; black chalk on paper.
Charlton, W. H. Notre Dame, Grande Rue, Caudebec ; black
chalk. Vieilles maisons, Place Victor Hugo, Lisieux ; black chalk.
Coucher du Soleil ; black chalk. Fishing boats, Concarneau ; black
and coloured chalks. Presented by G. F. Charlton, E'sq., through
Armstrong College, Newcastle-upon- Tyne.
Crealock, Maj. Gen., H. H., O.B., C.M.G, Twelve drawings of
animals in chalks pencil, pen and ink and water colour. Presented
by Miss Edith Price.
Dadd, F. Two sketches for water colour drawings; water
colours. Presented by E. E. Leggatt, Esq.
Dadd, R. ‘General View of Part of Port Stragglin” ; water
colours. Bequeathed by the late Robert Ross, Esq., to the National
Art-Collections Fund for the British Museum. ‘The Crooked
Path” ; body colour on parchment.
Frith, W. P., R.A. Study for the figure of Pope in ‘ Pope
rejected by Lady Mary Wortley Montague” ; black and white chalk
on tinted paper.
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Hayes, F. W., A.R.C.A. Landscape study in oils. Presented
by Gerald Hayes, Esq.
Linnell, J. Portraits of Major Sutherland and of an unknown
lady ; red, white and black chalk on tinted paper. Presented by the
Trustees of the National Portrait Gallery.
McBey, J. A series of seventy-four drawings made as official
artist with the Egyptian Expeditionary Force. They range in date
from May 28th, 1917, to January 1919, and are executed in water
colours and pen and ink. Presented by H.M. Government.
Patch, T. Bacchus and Silenus ; red chalk. Presented by C.
A. V. Bancalari, Esq.
Phillip, J. Portrait sketch of Robert Dadd ; black and white
chalk on grey paper. Presented by E. E. Leggatt, Esq.
Poynter, Sir E. J., Bart., P.R.A. Forty-seven drawings, a
collection fairly representing all stages of his career. They include
sketches for early woodcuts (4), studies for “Israel in Egypt” (4),
a study for a mosaic of St. George in St. Stephen’s Hall, West-
minster, studies for ‘A Suppliant to Venus” (3), studies for the
fresco of St. Stephen in St. Stephen’s Church, 8. Dulwich (3),
studies for Ashanti War Medal (4), studies for “‘ Atalanta’s Race ”
(3), designs and studies for ewer with the story of Psyche (4),
studies for numerous later works (12), and careful drawings of
flowers and trees (9).
Skeaf, D. Ruins of St. Anthony’s Chapel, Edinburgh ; water
colours. Mill near Fascally, West Highlands; water colours.
Presented by E. I. Leggatt, Esq.
Stott, H., A.R.A. Child carrying a sheaf of corn; pastel on
brown paper. Landscape ; pastel.on brown paper. Presented by
Miss A. Dinnage. Study of a cart horse ; pastel on brown paper.
Studies of hay waggons and horses; black chalk and pastel on
brown paper.
Sunderland, T. A view in the Lake District ; water colours.
Wastwater ; water colours. Hunsriick, on the Rhine; water
colours.
Tarrant, ©. A view of Charles Fort near Kinsale in Ireland,
1756 ; water colours. Presented by J. C. Lyell, Esq.
Vincent, G. Scene on the River Yare; pencil. A cottage on
the edge of an open space; pencil. A cottage with stream and
cattle ; pencil.
Engravings.
Blake, W. The twenty-two original copper plates of the
engraved illustrations to the Book of Job. Presented by H. Linnell,
Esq.
Cousins, S., R.A. Portrait of Mrs. Braddyll, after Sir J.
Reynolds. Mezzotint, Whitman 25.
McArdell, J. The Tribute Money, after Rembrandt. Mezzotint, ©
Goodwyn 215, fine early state.
Turner, J. M: W., R.A. Paestum. Original mezzotint,
Rawlinson 799 b, touched proof. The Mew-Stone. Original
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mezzotint, Rawlinson 804, unique trial proof. The Medway—
Thunderstorm with Rainbow. Original mezzotint, Rawlinson 809a,
unfinished, unique impression. Presented by W. G. Rawlinson, Kisq.
Etchings.
Baskett, C. H., R.E. Eleven aquatints of landscape subjects.
Presented by Messrs. P. & D. Colnaght and Obach.
Belcher, G. Two ladies of Walham Avenue. Mrs. Harris of
Jollop Yard. Presented by the Artist.
Bolingbroke, M. Three etchings of animals and landscape.
Presented by Miss E. P. McGhee.
Bone, M. Shipbreakers, Genoa. Dry-point; one of two
impressions of first state. Presented by EH. Peter Jones, Esq.
Buchanan, Lt. Col. B. Two aquatints and two etchings of
landscape. Presented by the Artist.
Buckler, J. Hight proofs in line of views of English Cathedrals
subsequently aquatinted.
Detmold, M. & E. J. Portfolio of eight etchings of animals.
Presented by Campbell Dodgson, Esq., C.B.E.
Drewitt, F. G. D., M.D. Three etchings. Presented by the
Artist.
Geddes, A., A.R.A. View on a hill with trees and figures.
Dodgson 28, undescribed early state. ‘
George, Sir E., R.A. Twenty landscape and architectural
etchings. Presented by the Artist.
Gosse, S. The Fiddler. Presented by the Artist.
Griggs, F. L. Barnack Church. Presented by the Artist. St.
Botolph’s Bridge, final state. Presented by R. A. Walker, Esq.
St. Botolph’s Bridge, second state. Presented by Campbell Dodgson,
fisq., CBE.
Green, B. Two crayon etchings of Chelsea.
Holroyd, Sir C. Advertisement of the Monte Oliveto Maggiore
set. Prayer. Presented by Lady Holroyd.
Hughes, M. K. Seven landscape etchings. Presented by Miss
Mary C. Hamilton.
‘McBey, J. Seven etchings of subjects in Sinai and Palestine.
Presented by the Artist.
Paton, F. Thirteen original etchings of animals. Forty
etchings after other artists. Presented by E. E. Leggatt, Esq.
Pissarro, Orovida C. Fourteen etchings of animals (one in two
states). Presented by the Artist.
Robins, W. P. Seven etchings of landscape, heads and an
interior. Presented by the Artist. Ten landscape etchings.
Presented by Messrs. P. & D. Colnaght and Obach.
Robins, M. L. Five etchings of figures and heads. Presented
by W. P. Robins, Esq.
Sickert, W. LHleven etchings. Presented by the Artist.
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Strang, W., A.R.A. Portraits of J. B. Clarke, catalogue 46
and supplement 515, Austin Dobson, catalogue 238 and Emery
Walker, catalogue supplement 473.
Walker, F. 8. St. Paul’s by Moonlight. Presented by the
Misses Walker.
Lithographs.
Jharlton, W. H. Five lithographs of North Shields. Presented
by G. F. Charlton, Esq., through Armstrong College, Newcastle-upon-
Tyne.
Nevinson, C. R. W. Wet Evening, Oxford Street. Le Port.
Presented by the Artist.
Shannon, C. H., A.KR A. The Tyrant. Presented by the Artist,
Woodcuts.
Blake, W. Two trial proofs for illustrations to Ambrose Philips’
Pastorals before the blocks were cut down, Russell 30 ii-ix. Pre-
sented by H. Linnell, Esq.
Burne-Jones, Sir E. Summer Snow. King Sigurd.
Gibbings, Capt. R. Eight woodcuts of landscape or towns.
Presented by the Artist.
Poynter, Sir E. J., Bart., P.R.A. Seventeen proofs of woodcut
illustrations to “Once a Week,” &. Presented by the executors of
Sir HE. J. Poynter, Bart., P.R.A.
Sandys, F. Seven proofs of illustrations to “Good Words” and
“Once a Week.”
Prints arranged to illustrate the Vorks of Masters.
Holmes, C. J. “In Wordsworth’s Country.” Lithograph in
colour. Presented by Campbell Dodgson, Esq., C.B.E.
Hunt, W. Holman. The Lady of Shalott. Mezzotint by J.D.
Miller. Presented by Messrs. Arthur Tooth § Son.
Leech, J. Three coloured lithographs published by Thos.
Agnew, 1865.
Turner, J. M. W., R.A. Norham Castle, Rawlinson, 317.
Unique impression of steel engraving by P. Heath, 1827. Presented
by W. G. Rawlinson, Esq.
PorTRAITS.
The 246 English and 76 foreign portraits acquired during the
year include a series of nine engraved by F. Holl, A.R.A., after
G. Richmond, R.A. (Presented by J. P. Heseltine, Hsq.), an
anonymous mezzotint of Capt. John Elphinstone, R.N., an engray-
ing of Charles Albert, King of Sardinia by P. Toschi after Horace
Vernet, a lithograph of Leopold I. of Belgium as King designate of
Greece, by F. Kriiger, and a series of eleven lithographs of the
Orléans family.
Book PLarEs.
Three by E. D. French. Presented by H. G. Weicker, Esq.
Twenty-one by H. H. New. Presented by the Artist. A
further three, presented by Thomas Ogden, Esq.
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COLLECTIONS AND SErvTs.
A series of forty-two reproductions of drawings by J. Constable,
R.A., in the Victoria and Albert Museum.
A folio volume containing 605 proofs of etchings and aquatints
by F. Rosaspina after drawings by F. Mazzuola (Parmigiano). A
collection made by the artist himself and sold by him to Richard
Ford.
A large volume containing 654 drawings, etchings, photographs
and miscellanea by or connected with R. C. Lucas, by whom the
collection was made. Presented by Mrs. Henry Maillstead through
the National Art-Collections Fund.
Six lithographs of the War by F. Brangwyn, R.A. Presented
by the Canadian War Memorials Office.
Thirty-two lithographs of the Australian Imperial Force in
France by W. Dyson. Presented by the Australian Intelligence
Department.
Six lithographs by M. Bone,“ On the Clyde.” Presented by the —
artist. |
Six colour reproductions of pictures representing Britain’s Sea
Power. Presented by the Medici Modern Art Society, Ltd.
Books oF Prints AND Books oF REFERENCE.
Calvert, F. Lessons on Landscape, London, 1815.
Cust, L. Eton College Portraits.
Haelwegh, A. Regum Daniae Icones, Copenhagen, | 1646].
Lavallée-Poussin, E. de. Nouvelle Collection d’ Arabesques
propres a la décoration des appartements. 40 engravings by Guyot.
Robson, G. F. Scenery of the Grampian Mountains, London,
1819. 41 aquatint plates. |
Strang. W. Catalogue of his etched work ; supplement, 1912.
Presented by Messrs. J. MacLehose & Son.
Campbell Dodgson.
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Susp-DEPARTMENT OF ORIENTAL PRINTS AND DRAWINGS.
I.—Arrangment and Cataloguing, &.
The Chinese, Japanese, and Indian paintings, which had been
removed for storage in the Post Office Tube, were brought back
without injury at the beginning of the year and returned to their
places in the collection.
The framed pictures in the Stein Collection have been labelled
and arranged in the special cases designed for them.
The several collections of Chinese paintings s, hitherto kept
separate, have been incorporated in a single series, arranged accor-
ding to period. ‘The items have all been re-numbered. A similar
task has been undertaken with regard to the Japanese paintings,
the Morrison Collection having to be incorporated with the main
collection. The paintings have been checked for this purpose, and
the work is in process of being carried out. ‘The prints after
Japanese Masters have been re-arranged in portfolios.
Two books of reference and 35 prints, recently acquired, have
been placed.
The subject-index to the Japanese collections has been completed.
A list has been made of the Chinese paintings arranged accor-
ding to the new numbering. A finding-list has also been prepared,
giving the correspondence between the new numbers and the old.
A list has been made of the Japanese paintings in the proposed
new order of arrangement.
Corrections in the Index of Chinese Artists, rendered necessary
by the new numbering, have been made.
Additions to the hand-lists of Japanese woodcuts, rendered
necessary by new acquisitions, have been made.
A subject-index of the Stein Collection has been prepared, with
cross-references from Sanskrit to Japanese names.
A study has been made of the paintings in the Stein Collection
from the point of view of Buddhist iconography.
A list of the paintings and woodeuts in the Stein Collection has
been prepared.
Registration.—Three hundred and sixty-nine items have been
entered in the Register of Acquisitions.
Stamping and Mounting.—Three hundred and eight paintings,
prints, &c., have been impressed with the departmental stamp and
references to the Register.
Thirty-nine paintings and drawings from the Stein Collection
have been mounted.
Two paintings from the Stein Collection have been framed.
One Chinese painting of the Sung period, recently acquired,
has been remounted and repaired.
Five Chinese paintings have been cleaned, and four others
backed and mounted.
40 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
One hundred and seventy-eight Japanese prints have been
mounted on sunk mounts and lettered with the artists’ names and
references to Register and Catalogue.
One Indian painting has been mounted’ on a sunk mount.
IL.— Acquisitions,
At the beginning of the year the paintings, drawings, and
woodcuts allotted to the Sub-department as a result of the partition
of the Stein Collection between the Government of India and the
Museum, were finally taken over and incorporated. The acquisition
of this precious series of works of ancient Buddhist art enormously
increases the value and importance of the collections in the Sub-
department.
The total number of paintings, prints, &c., acquired during the
year was 477, of which the following are the most important.
Tur STEIN CULLECTION.
Frescoes.—Twenty-one, mostly fragments from the Khadalik
site. The most important frescoes are two compositions, represen-
ting monks and hermits, from Mingoi, and a standing Bodhisattva
from Ferhad Beg.
Paintings and Drawings on Silk, Paper or Linen.—Two hundred
and thirty-one. These are all part of the treasure discovered by
Sir Aurel Stein in 1908 in the rock temple of The Thousand
Buddhas at Tun-huang, on the western frontier of China. Several
bear dates of the 9th and 10th centuries, and the great majority
undoubtedly belong to the latter part of the T’ang dynasty. Apart
from the ?un-huang paintings, almost nothing survives from the
T’ang period, the grandest period of Chinese art. Many of these
paintings show the local styles and mixed influences. prevailing in
the Central Asian regions ; but others belong to the main tradition
of Chinese Buddhist painting, and the finest of these are of singular
beauty. One painting in distemper on linen is of the well-defined
Tibetan type, and is possibly the most ancient specimen now eXis-
ting. The collection includes also some Tibetan outline drawings,
and part of a series of small paintings of Nepalese type.
From the point of view of subject these paintings, which throw
new light on the history of Mahayana Buddhism, may be divided
into four groups (1) Pictures of the Western Paradise, or Assem-
blages of Divine Beings, (2) Figures of Sod ene especially
of Avalokitesvara or Kuan-yin, and of the Lokapalas, (3) Scenes
from the Jatakas, or stories of the successive incarnations of the
Buddha, of especial interest from the fact that Chinese costume and
conventions are used throughout, affording a valuable sidelight on
the secular art of the period ; (4) Miscellaneous drawings ; a man
leading a camel and a man leading a horse; a study of human
proportions ; drawings of mudras, charms, €e.
SUB-DEPARTMENT OF ORIENTAL PRINTS AND DRAWINGS, 41
Woodcuts.—Twenty-nine, including one dated with the year
corresponding to 947 a.p. In some of these prints the same figure
is stamped repeatedly from a single block. These are among the
oldest woodeuts in the world.
MISCELLANEOUS ACQUISITIONS.
CHINESE.
Paintings.
Chien Shun-chii (late 13th century), éarly copy after. Horse-
men escorting a famous beauty, Wang Chao-chiin, to the Court
of the Emperor. A roll, painted in colours on silk.
Chiao Ping-chéen. Record of an official tour of inspection, south
of the River, in October, 1699. A long roll, in colours on silk.
Chiian-hu (17th century). Figures in landscape. Four small
idyllic paintings. Presented by Lieut.-Col. R. H. Whitwell.
Tsai Han (18th century). Birds on a bough at evening.
Kakemono on silk, in colours, by a lady artist greatly esteemed
in her day.
Li Ken (18th century). An Arhat; after Wu Tao-tzu, the
greatest of Chinese masters (8th century), whose work is only
known through copies. Kakemono on silk, in colours.
Woodecuts.
The Money Dragon ; and two sheets of illustrations to romances,
Three broadsheets, printed in colours ; probably late 18th century.
JAPANESE.
Paintings.
Soami (15th century), attributed to. A leaping carp: ink
painting on paper.
Ukiyo-yé School (17th century). Three youths. Two-fold
screen, painted in colours on gold. An early work of the school,
by a follower of Matabei.
Woodeuts.
Nichiren, attributed to. The god Indra. <A large woodcut
of primitive design, traditionally attributed to the famous Saint
Nichiren, of the 13th century. Presented by Proj. W. Bateson,
RS. : |
Moronobu. Scene from the story of the Shiuten Doji. Hand-
coloured.
Harunobu. A Flower Seller. An early work, of unusual size
and extreme rarity. Presented by Prof. W. Bateson, F.R.S.
Kiyomasu. ‘T'wo Actors. Print in three colours, of great rarity.
Koriusai. Two Girls. Atsumori taking leave of his wife.
Hashira-kaké.
42 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
Kiyonaga. A Child Calligraphist.
Toyoharu. A Water Festival.
Utamaro. A married Woman giving a Scroll to a Girl.
Hokusai. Four prints from the set of ‘ Hundred Poets,”
Nos. 3, 19, 24 and 36. Girls admiring. Cherry-blossom. Large
Surimono. Men and Girls by a River. Large Surimono.
Hiroshige and Yeisen. Fushimi; Ota ; Sekigahara; Imasu ;
Kashiwabara. Five prints from the Kisokaid6 series.
INDIAN.
Mogul School. Painting. 17th century. An ascetic.
SIAMESE.
Paintings.
Buddha between two saints; below, the stages of mortality.
Divinities of the Zodiac ; below, a scene from legend. Buddha be-
tween two saints ; below, scenes from the Buddha legend. Large
paintings on cotton, in colours and gold. Seventeenth century (?)
Books OF REFERENCE.
Fabel H. 8. Epochs of Chinese and Japanese Art. Pre-
sented by haente Binyon, Esq.
Foucher, A. The Beginnings of Buddhist Art. Presented by
Laurence Binyon, Esq.
Lange, R. Thesaurus Japonicus, Band IT.
Laurence Binyon.
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DEPARTMENT OF EGYPTIAN AND ASSYRIAN ANTIQUITIES. 43
DEPARTMENT OF EaGypTiaAN AND ASSYRIAN ANTIQUITIES.
I.— Arrangement, Cataloguing, &c.
EGypriaAn ANTIQUITIES :—
Many thousands of bags of sand have been removed from the
Egyptian Galleries, and the statues and other monuments have been
replaced in their original positions in the Egyptian Galleries. All
the Egyptian stele have been unpacked and replaced on the shelves,
together with a number of recently acquired Nubian funerary slabs
and memorial stones. The stele of the Graeco-Roman Period have
been collected and grouped.
The hieroglyphic, hieratic and demotic papyri, which had been
carefully packed inside the large stone sarcophagi, have been
unpacked and replaced in the wall cases in the Carthaginian Base-
ment, and an exhaustive examination has shown that none of them
has suffered injury.
Three hundred and thirty-three cases of antiquities have been
brought from the Postal Tube to the Museum, and the Rosetta Stone,
and the choice monuments of the Ancient Empire have been re-
placed uninjured in the Egyptian Galleries.
All the mummies and coffins stored in the strong rooms in the
Basement have been brought up to the First Northern Gallery, and
arranged tentatively in the Wall Cases ready for the general re-
arrangement of the Gallery. As many of the dowels in the coffins
had shrunk and fallen out, new dowels have been cut and inserted,
and all cracks in the plaster casings have been stopped. During
the rearrangement all the rectangular and anthropoid coffins acquired
during the last ten or fifteen years have been incorporated.
The greater number of the objects acquired during the year have
been cleaned, and repaired where necessary, in readiness for
exhibition.
The damaged labels in the Egyptian Galleries have been
repaired, and all numbers restored.
Twelve stelae frames have been made ; several hundred feet of
mahogany have been prepared for ebonizing ; thirty-eight wooden
pedestals for coffins have been enlarged, and about forty new ones
made. Twelve stone pedestals have been prepared and objects
mounted on them. Hight cartonnage cases have been cleaned and
repaired.
One hundred and eighty-three objects have been registered ;
one hundred and eighty-nine labels have been drafted and painted,
and numbers have been painted on about five hundred objects.
A set of eight coloured post cards with scenes and vignettes
from the Book of the Dead have been published.
44 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
ASSYRIAN ANTIQUITIES :—
Many thousands of bags of sand have been removed from the
bulls, bas-reliefs and other sculptures, and the protective screens of
steel plates and slag wool have been taken down in the Nimrud and
Kuyunjik Galleries, and dismantled.
The bas-reliefs of Ashur-nasir-pal and of the Lion Hunt of
Ashur-bani-pal have been rebuilt into the walls, and the slate and
wooden framework and the glass replaced. The plinths have been
gritted and cleaned and the labels restored. No bas-relief has
suffered injury.
The Bronze Gates of Shalmaneser have been unpacked and
replaced.
Two hundred and forty-three cases of tablets, cylinders, &e.
have been unpacked and their contents brought up from the Base-
ment to the rooms leading to the new extension.
Seventy-six thousand, three hundred and forty-six tablets (kK
Collection, &c.) have been unpacked, and checked and replaced on
their shelves. A few of the shellac joinings gave way, but other-
wise no tablet suffered injury.
Fifteen Table-Cases have been brought up to the Second
Northern Gallery and their contents replaced.
Eighty-six cases of Babylonian Antiquities, results of the
Trustees’ Excavations in Mesopotamia, have been unpacked, and
their contents examined.
One hundred and ten vases, dishes, bowls, tablets, cylinders, &e.
have been repaired.
Eight hundred and seyenty-one tablets have been placed in glass-
topped boxes lined with cotton wool.
Four thousand and thirty-six objects have been numbered.
One thousand and sixteen objects have been registered, and eight
tablets and two texts have been copied.
Students.—About 2,300 visits have been made to the Depart-
ment, chiefly by soldiers from Egypt and Mesopotamia, and the
objects brought by them for examination have been described.
I1.— Acquisitions.
].—EGypriAn :—
1. Fine white limestone ushabti figure of Ba-en-Ra meri
Amen, or Menephthah, King of Egypt. About B.c.
1250.
2. Alabaster ushabti figure from the tomb of Rameses IT. at
Thebes. About B.c. 1300.
3. Stone ushabti figure with decorations in green colour.
Archaic period. From Abydos.
4. Green glazed faience ushabti figure of Tehuti-artas, son of
Ant. From Dér al-Bahari.
. Bronze figure of An-hetep, a royal butler. Very fine
work of the XXth dynasty.
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Five blue glazed faience ushabtiu figures of Pen-ta-urt,
the scribe who wrote the description of the campaigns
of Rameses II. About B.c. 1300.
Five flat figures, of unusual shape, of a priest of Amen ;
the hieroglyphs are cut in relief. From Thebes.
Portion of a bronze figure of a Queen, or lady of high
rank, inlaid with gold. XVIIIth dynasty. B.c. 1500.
Bronze figure of ‘‘ Horus of the Two Horizons,” wearing
plumes. Unique. XXth dynasty.
. Faience bead with the cartouche of Nubkaura, 7.e.,
Amenemhat II. XIIth dynasty.
. Blue faience ball for children.
. Ithyphallic mummied figure in the form of Osiris, from
the newly-excavated temple of Osiris at Karnak.
. Burnt brick mould for casting figures of Osiris. Saite
Period. Unique.
. Alabaster unguent vase with the cartouche of Thothmes
III. on the side and on the cover. B.c. 1500.
. Bronze jar, or pitcher, with lotus-shaped handle.
. Model of a group of the hieroglyphs for “life, stability,
and power,” for inlaying in a plaque or relief.
. Model of the hieroglyph for “field” or “meadow,” for
inlaying.
. Solid bronze head from the statue of a priest or high
official. XIXth or XXth dynasty.
. Opaque glass vessel from the tomb of Thothmes III. A
rare subject. About B.c. 1500.
. Bronze lamp, with the handle in the form of a mouse.
Late period.
. A bronze censer, with chain. Late period.
. Blue glazed faience figure of a priest.
. Wooden figure of Osiris. XIXth dynasty.
2. Wooden figure of Amenhetep III. (8.c. 1450), with the
attributes of Osiris.
. Wooden figure of Rameses II. (B.c. 1300), with the
attributes of Osiris.
. Six large steatite scarabs bearing the cartouches of
Amenhetep and Queen Ti. From the Sadan.
. Faience pendant ‘“‘ heart” scarab, for laying on a mummy.
. Reed flute with six holes, with metal band at each end.
. Blue glazed faience plaque with a head of Bes in relief.
Fine colour, XXIInd dynasty.
. Six flint implements. Predynastie period.
. A pair of shell bracelets and a pair of bone bracelets.
. Stone model of the claw of an animal.
. Massive stone mace-head, with inscription.
. Black stone toilet box. XXIInd dynasty.
. Part of a large faience ankh, or symbol of “ life,” with the
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sions for “‘ serenity” and “ stability ” superimposed. It
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ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
was mounted on a staff and carried in religious proces-
sions. From the Temple of Tirhakah at Gebel Barkal.
. Part of a similar object of fine green colour. From the
same temple.
. Red ware vase. Archaic period. From Abydos.
. Two bronze lamps. Late period.
. Hard stone figure of a frog. Archaic period. From
Abydos.
. Figure of the Ba-bird, z.e., Soul-bird, with outstretched
wings. From the Sudan.
. Bronze figure of Ra, with disk. From a statue.
. Portion of an alabaster statue of a prince or king.
. End of a bronze bolt from a door, with the end in the
form of a lion’s head. XXVIth dynasty.
. Bronze toilet box. XXth dynasty.
. Plaques from foundation deposits of Thothmes IV. and
Rameses IT.
. Part of an inscribed blue glazed plaque for inlaying.
XXVIth dynasty.
. Two stone figures inscribed with passages from the Book
of the Dead.
. Terra-cotta figure and an object in basalt.
. A carved ivory figure, two cylinder seals, and a “ pace?’
seal. Archaic period.
. A gold ring with a sunk cartouche.
. A gold ring inscribed with the legend — e.,
“* oood fac 55
. Porcelain bead of Seti I., glazed.
. Porcelain bead decorated with an unusual pattern.
. Porcelain bead decorated with utchats, &e.
. Blue glazed faience hawk of Horus.
. Scarab inlaid with buds, &. XIIth dynasty.
. White stone head for inlaying in a “‘ heart ”’ scarab.
. Scarab of Amenhetep III. and Ti.
. Steatite plaque ; obv. Boat of Ra ; rev. lion.
. Stone cover of a jar or mould for cakes.
. Painted vase (biigelkann).
. A group of objects of the late Roman and Christian
Periods, viz., terra-cotta lamp, three ivory objects,
necklace ae ornaments, crescents, bulls, &e.
. Six fine large wooden combs, with hollow-work carvings,
Coptic period.
. A set of four bronze pillar-ornaments from a processional
shrine. XXIInd dynasty.
A collection of ten inscribed funerary stelee of the Coptic
Period (VIIIth-XIth century A.D.)
Large terra-cotta vase decorated with paintings of fish,
gazelle, Kc.
Large wheel-turned wine jar with hieratic inscriptions.
XXth dynasty.
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A group of objects in hard stone dating from the 1Vth to
the XXth dynasty, viz. :—
A black granite altar. XVIIIth dynasty. |
A red granite bowl dedicated to Thothmes ITT.
A large basalt libation bow] with four ears. -
Black stone squatting-figure of Ser, a divine father and
libationer of Amen.
Limestone figure of Mes-Ptah, a ‘‘ real royal kinsman.”
Limestone stele of Tataa. IVth dynasty.
Limestone stele for a whole family. XIIth dynasty.
Quartzite stele with funerary scenes on the obverse and
reverse..
II.— ASSYRIAN :—
Ti
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A large and miscellaneous collection of antiquities, chiefly
of the Chaleolithic Period, from the Trustees’ excava-
tions in Babylonia.
Antiquities excavated by Mr. H. R. Hall, Assistant
Keeper in the Department :—
Dee —
. A collection of objects comprising stone implements,
painted pottery, Ke.
. Portion of two stone portrait heads in the “ Gudea”
style. From the Palace of Dungi ; about B.C. 2500.
Four fragments of inscribed stone ; about B.C. 2500.
A good, typical collection of inscribed bricks of the
kings Ur-Engur, Dangi, Bur-Sin II., Kudur-Mabuk,
Nebuchadnezzar II. and Nabonidus from the Palace of
E-Kharsag. B.C. 2400-550.
. Inscribed stone tablet of Ur-Engur.
. A group of blue glazed bricks from the temple tower.
. Forty inscribed clay tablets, and 230 fragments of
tablets containing legal and commercial and religious
texts, which were written for priestly families who lived
in the dwellings that were erected on the ruins of
E-Kharsag, the Palace of Dungi. From the reign of
Ashur-bani-pal (B.C. 668-626) to that of Xerxes
(B.C. 480).
. An Egyptian mould for scarabs, and a group of objects
from the ruins of the temple tower. B.C. 600.
. Agroup of rudeclay figures of men and animals. B.C. 600.
. 277 pottery vases and a large collection of fragments
from graves of the VIIth-Vth centuries B.C.
A miscellaneous collection of bronze and iron rings,
bracelets, pins, bead necklaces, and a cylinder-seal
from the same graves.
Iron bit and remains of horse equipment, dagger and
knife. VIIth-Vth centuries B.C.
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ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
Two silver pins from a grave of the late period.
Part of the brick tomb and the large pottery coffin from
the same grave.
. A group of pottery coffins, with human bones and a
child buried in bowls.
. Bronze lamp in the form of a lion. B.c. 700.
Apu SHAHREN.
. A collection of 739 implements, ornaments, &c., in flint,
chert, crystal, obsidian, and other stones, found on the
surface of the desert. Chaleolithic period.
. A collection of 386 fragments of painted pottery ; same
period. Found on the surface of the desert. Same
period.
. A rude figure of a man in clay. Same period.
. Fragment of a plaque of obsidian on which is cut the
figure of a lion passant. Same period.
. A collection of 190 fragmentary stone objects. Same
period.
. A collection of 142 pottery cones, sickles, whorls, &e.
Same period.
. A miscellaneous collection of 29 objects and 14 cups and
vases of the early Sumerian period..
. 28 inscribed bricks of Bur-Sin II., King of Ur, B.c.
2300.
. Gold nail and pendant, copper nails in gold beads, and
fragment of gold leaf. Sumerian period.
Stone beads of the Chaleolithic and Sumerian periods.
TALL AL-“UBE&D.
760 implements, ornaments, and other objects of flint,
chert, crystal, obsidian, jasper, Kc.
95 small stone objects, &e.
1,017 fragments of painted pottery, cones, sickles,
whorls, Ke.
The objects under Nos. 27—29 are of the same type
and period as those from Abu Shahrén, and were all
found on the surface of the desert.
50 whole and fragmentary bowls, vases, &c., of the
early Sumerian period.
Six plano-convex bricks from the temple of Damkina.
Early Sumerian period.
. 56 fragments of stone vases, architectural fragments, &e.
. A series of black and red stone and mother-of-pearl
tesserze from mosaic pillars.
15 whole and fragmentary pottery flowers with petals
made of stone and bitumen ; and one bitumen flower.
Limestone torso of a male figure dedicated by Kur-lil,
storekeeper of Erech, to the goddess Damkina. Period
of Ur-Nina, or earlier ; B.c. 3500.
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36. Brown tufa figure of a squatting man with a fragmentary
inscription on one shoulder. Period of Ur-Nina,
about B.c. 3500.
37. Copper relief representing Imgig, the lion-headed eagle
cognizance of Lagash, seizing two stags by their tails.
Period of the supremacy of Lagash ; before B.c. 3000.
38. Fragments of two small copper bulls ; before B.c. 3000.
39. Gold horn of a bull overlaid on bitumen ; before B.c. 3000.
40. Colossal head of a lion in bitumen, with red, white and
black stone and shell eyes, tongue and teeth, and
fragments of the copper mask ; before B.c. 3000.
41. Fragments of three similar lions’ heads.
42. Smaller lion’s head.
43. Two bitumen panther heads, life size, with copper masks ;
eyes, teeth, &c., not inlaid.
44, Five birds’ heads in copper.
45. A mass of copper fragments, pillars, pipes, &c.
46. Four bricks, one inscribed, from a building of Dungi.
[ Nos. 31—44 are all from the temple of Damkina. |
From Tart Apu SAKHAR? near Tall al-‘Ubéd.
47. Fragments of pottery and flints found on the surface of
the desert.
From Tati As-SOLeBIYAH near Abu Shahrén.
48. Pottery and iron objects, beads, &c., from late graves.
From Nurar (Nippur).
49. Brick of Ur-Ungur.
Brick of Melishipak II.
Glazed brick of the late period.
From BaAaBYLon.
Bronze pin with bird on head.
Pottery stilt for baking vases in a kiln.
Various small objects and a fragment of a_ brick of
Nebuchadnezzar II.
B. Antiquities excavated by Mr. R. Campbell Thompson, M.A., at
Abu Shahrén and Ur.
From Apu SHAHREN.
1. 2,000 implements of chert, flint, obsidian, &e.
2. About 500 rough stone hoe-blades and other implements.
3. 1,000 fragments of painted pottery. Chaleolithic period.
4. 119 pottery sickles, and fragments of sickles. Same
period.
5. 200 pottery votive cones, nails, &e. Same period.
6. 15 Sumerian vases and bowls, from burials. Same period.
7. Miscellaneous vases and fragments.
8. 6 bricks of Bur-Sin II. B.c. 2300.
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ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
From Ur.
es
2.
A miscellaneous collection of stone implements, &e.
A collection of pottery and miscellaneous objects from
late graves.
IJ.—1. A Babylonian contract tablet dated in the 3rd year of
IV.—1.
15.
the reign of Cambyses.
. A Babylonian contract tablet dated in the 5th year of
Cyrus.
. A Babylonian contract tablet dated in the 19th year of
Nebuchadnezzar II (?).
. A large limestone memorial slab inscribed with a text in
the Assyrian monumental character recording the
conquest of the Kassite king Bibea by Tukulti Ninib,
king of Assyria, B.c. 1275, who deported his conquered
foe to his capital, the city of Ashur (Kalah Sharkat).
Bronze figure of the king Ur-Engur, king of Ur, about
B.C. 2500, in the character of the priest who presented
the basket of offerings to the goddess of the city.
. Stone tablet with an inscription of Ur-Engur, mentioning
the dedication of a temple to the goddess Beltis.
. A bronze mace head round which are coiled seven serpents ;
the heads of these project separately. About B.c. 2500.
. Portion of a bronze animal with illegible Babylonian
inscription.
. Bronze implement or bolt bearing an inscription of
Ur-Ningirsu (?).
. Bronze spear head.
. Four bronze axe-heads with brackets supporting the blades.
. Bronze axe-head with remains of the wooden handle.
The back of the socket is ribbed, and each end of it is
flanged. A rare specimen, B.c. 2300.
. Diorite jar for unguents. Nos. 1-12 are from Ur.
. Bronze lamp with broken handle.
. Babylonian duck-weight, uninscribed. Weight 102lbs.
From Mukayyar (Ur.)
Portion of a limestone boundary stone sculptured with
astronomical and other emblems on one side. About
B.c. 900.
16-33. A collection of very fine cylinder seals in marble, crystal,
3b4.
35-39.
40.
41.
42.
carnelian, basalt, lapis-lazuli, &e., of the period B.c.
2000-600. A few of them came from Shushtar.
Chalcedony pebble, with scene representing an adorer
pouring out a libation to the king.
Four archaic stone stamps and a dark stone cylinder seal,
From Shushtar.
Model of a sheep in schist or steatite. Harly period.
Black stone amulet inscribed with the names of several
gods and goddesses as words of power.
Pendant inscribed with the name of Ashur-etil-itani, son
of Sennacherib, son of Sargon.
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43-62.
63.
64.
65-274.
275-686.
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III.—
A miscellaneous collection of 22 portions of tablets and
cases of tablets, many bearing very perfect impressions
of cylinder seals. About B.c. 2000.
White limestone object with annules and _ herring-bone
pattern ; perhaps a model of a turtle.
Silver bangle ; late period.
A collection of 210 “account tablets” from Jokha, the
site of the ancient city of Umma. They are written
in Sumerian and are dated not by regnal years of
kings, but by events, and belong to the period about
B.C. 2300. They were used by the Viceroy to record
his various business transactions, the principal medium.
of which seems to have been copper.
A large and important collection, consisting of 412 in-
scribed tablets of the class which is now known as
“‘Cappadocian,” from Boghaz Keui. About 300 of
them are letters concerning sums of money of lead and
silver. The remainder are bonds for money, notes of
loans, and documents of this kind ; all these are dated
by eponyms (limu). The material used is quite differ-
ent from the ordinary clay of Babylonia, and is red,
or white, or black in colour. The writing resembles
that in use about B.c. 2000, and is peculiar to ‘Cappa-
docian”’ tablets; the ordinary shape is that of a
‘pillow ” with a curved edge. The names of Ashur,
Ishtar, Adad, Sin and Shamash appear in many of the
names of the contracting parties.
Presents.
. Ushabti figure of Maat-Ka-Ra, i.e. Queen Hatshepset.
BC. booU.
. Green glazed faience ushabti figure. XXVIth dynasty.
. Bronze Apis Bull. XXth dynasty.
Two figures of animals in bronze.
. Two figures of the god Bes.
. A glazed faience ring.
. Figure of Ptah-Seker-Asar.
A collection of thirty-one scarabs, beads, plaques, &c.,
in steatite.
Presented by the Dowager Viscountess Wolseley.
Portion of the cover of a large outer Egyptian coffin.
XXVIth dynasty.
Presented by Captain Arnold Palmer, R.A.
Cast of the death-mask of Amen-hetep IV., King of
Egypt about B.c. 1450.
Presented by the Right Hon. the Earl of Carnarvon.
IV.—
Blue faience figure of Qebhsenuf, son of Horus, and a
protector of the dead.
Presented by Capt. A. French Brewster.
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V.—A gold plaque on which are cut in hieroglyphs ‘“‘ Neter Tuat
Shep-en-Upt,” 7.e. the name and title of Shep-en Upt,
high priestess of Amen-Ra at Thebes. About B.c. 740.
Presented by Mrs. Margaret Hole.
VI.—1. A marble Cippus of Horus, sculptured with figures of
Isis and Horus ; on the back is cut in hieroglyphs a
series of magical texts resembling those found on the
Metternich Stele. Ptolemaic Period. Found at
Babylon.
2. Large fragment of an unbaked clay Babylonian tablet
written about B.c. 650. From Babylon.
Presented by Capt. EL. Cuthbert Aston.
VI. — Cast of a Hittite inscription at Jarabis.
Presented by Capt. J. Martin.
VIII.— Funerary stele with ‘ Safaitic” inscription. From the
Sawad Desert.
Presented by Miss Gertrude Bell.
IX.— Wooden model of a mummy in a wooden coffin. XXth
dynasty.
Presented by H. Sidney, Esq.
X.— Stone cylinder on which is cut a copy of an inscription of
Nebuchadnezzar II. Modern imitation.
Presented by A. R. Pollard, Esq.
XI.— White marble kriophoros figure. From the ruins of the
old city of Zubér near Basrah.
Presented by Col. A. T. Wilson, C.S.I., C.M.G.
XII.— Light greenish-blue glazed faience ushabti figure made
for a priest of Khnemu. Saite Period.
Presented by General G. W. Biddulph.
XI1I.—Nubische Texte in Dialekte der Kunwzi by H. Schaefer,
Berlin, 1917. Presented by Lt.-Col. Wake, C.M.G.
XITV.—Survey of Egypt. Maps. Scale 1: 100,000.
i: Tabita. 16. Faqus.
2. Sohag. 17. El-Faiyum.
3. Suez. 18. El-Fashn.
4, Cairo. 19. Beni Suef.
5. Ashmun. 20. Qatia.
6. Nag Hammadi. 21. Little Bitter Lake.
7. Helwan. 22. Suez Bay.
8. Wadi en-Natrun. 23. Rosetta.
9. Bilbeis. 24. Fuwa.
10. Damanhur. 25. Baltim.
11. Alexandria. 26. Damietta.
12. Kafr ez-Zaiyat. 27. Port Said.
13. Zifta. 28. Beni Mazar.
14. Ismailia. _ 29. Minya.
15. Dairut. 30. Asyut.
Presented by the Egyptian Government.
EH. A. Walhs Budge.
DEPARTMENT OF GREEK AND ROMAN ANTIQUITIES, 53
DEPARTMENT OF GREEK AND ROMAN ANTIQUITIES.
I.— Arrangement.
All the collections of the Department had been returned to the
Museum from their places of safety by February 10th.
1. The Sculpture Galleries—The removal of sandbags aia
other protections was begun immediately after the armistice, and
the rooms were re-opened as soon as their condition allowed. The
Nereid and Mausoleum Rooms were re-opened to the public on
January 6th ; the Phigaleian Room on January 27th; the three
Greco-Roman Rooms during March and April. The Gallery of
Casts and the Greeco-Roman Basement were re-opened on May 27th.
All sculptures in the round had been replaced throughout the
Galleries by June 27th.
In the Klgin Room the protective covering was removed from
ee metopes in January. The frieze was brought back from the
Post Office Tube and unpacked during February and March. The
reconstruction was completed in October. The pedimental sculptures
were brought back and replaced during May and June. The Elgin
Room was repainted and completed in November.
Throughout the galleries the sculptures have been cleaned ; they
were moved in the Phigaleian Room, the Ephesus Room, and three
Greeco-Roman Rooms and Basement, to allow for the re-painting of
the walls.
Archer’s Picture of the Elgin Room in 1819 has been mounted
in the Elgin Room. In the Cast Gallery the labels have been
remounted. Six inscriptions have been mounted ; and six sculptures
from Salonica have been mounted and placed on exhibition in the
Archaic Room. The store casts which during the war had been
exhibited in lieu of the originals have been replaced and arranged
in the Basements.
2. The Upper Galleries.—The Terracotta Room was re-opened
on January 27th ; The Exhibition of Greek and Roman Life on
March 31st ; the Gold Ornament Room on April 21st ; the Bronze
Room and Third and Fourth Vase Rooms on April 28th. In the
First and Second Vase Rooms the vases were unpacked and
stored in the wall cases pending the return of these rooms from
occupation by the Registry of Friendly Societies. A temporary
exhibition of typical vases of the First and Second Rooms has been
installed in the Third Vase Room. The rings and gold ornaments
have been rearranged, and the Franks collection has been
incorporated in the general series. The Terracotta Room Annexe
has been fitted with additional cupboards. The Exhibition of
Greek and Roman Life has been rearranged in part, and revised.
Progress has been made with a Catalogue of Silver Plate and
with a new edition of the Guide to the Exhibition of Greek and
Roman Life. A Finding-list for the Gold Ornament Room has
been compiled.
54 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
A large series of objects from the Museum of the British
Salonica Force has been unpacked, cleaned and repaired for
exhibition. Two hundred and four gold rings have been mounted
and casts have been taken of nineteen gems. One hundred and
forty-three vases, forty terracottas, nineteen bronzes, two ivory, six
porcelain, one lead, two amber and two gold objects have been
cleaned and repaired. One thousand two hundred and forty-four
objects were numbered and two hundred and fifty-four registered.
Three hundred and one labels were written and twenty printed.
_ The number of visits to the Departmental Library and Students’
Room for purposes of research was 368 ; there were 746 other visits
to the staff for enquiry or on departmental business, and 552 atten-
dances of students of art and architecture in the Sculpture Galleries.
II.— Acquisitions.
I.—Sculpture in stone or marble.
1. Marble female head in high relief. Ht. 305 m. From
Cyrene.”
. Marble head of man with closed eyes. Ht. .1 m. From
Seville.
Nos. 1 and 2 presented by Mrs. Fitzroy Lyon.
3. Marble fragment of slab xxxvi. of the north side of the
Frieze of the Parthenon, containing the head and body of
the rider No. 110 and the head of the horse No. 111.
Ht. -46 m. Cf. Journal of R.1.B.A., 22nd Noy., 1902,
and Zimes of 15th July, 1919. Found in a rockery at
Colne Park, Essex. Presented by J. J. Dumville-Botterell,
Lisq.
4. Marble statue of draped woman of 4th century type; the
head has been inserted and is now missing. Ht. 1:05 m.
ound at Zangliveri in Macedonia.
3. Marble sepulchral stele, dedicated by Arescusa to her husband,
with male and female busts enclosed inaframe. Ht. 1:28 m.
Found by the Leinster Regiment in trenches 8.E. of
_ Aivasil.
6. Marble sepulchral stele of Alfidius Secundus, with a relief of
four draped standing figures ; below this a relief of horse
and groom. Ht. 1:185 m. Found by the Wiltshire
Regiment in the trenches 8.E. of Laina. |
7. Fragment of relief ; draped standing figures and boy holding
horse. L. -49 m.
8. Colossal head, surface much worn. Ht. -45 m.
9. Lower part of draped female statuette. Ht.-64 m. Nos. 4-9
collected and presented by the British Salonica Force, with the
sanction of the Greek Government.
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I1.—Gems and Glass.
10. Chalcedony scarabaeoid, with intaglio design of Victory in a
two-horse chariot. Found at Garma, near Jajarm, in North
Persia.
15.
£6.
VT.
18.
19.
20.
21.
22.
23,
24.
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. Gold ring with sard intaglio : Achilles dragging the body of
Hector round the walls of Troy. Presented by L. A.
Lawrence, Esq.
. Turquoise cameo : portrait of Tiberius, of fine quality. Found
by an English soldier among rubbish at Canopus.
. Steatite lenticular gem with intaglio design of horned goat.
Presented by C. A. Lembessis, Esq.
. Fragments of Roman window glass, from the Saalburg.
Presented by Capt. E. G. Spencer-Churchall.
III.—Jvory and Bone.
Base of a stag’s horn, probably forming the head of a staff,
worked in the form of a bearded head. The eyes have
been inlaid with ivory eye-ball and black pupil. From
Crete ; a work of the Mycenzean period. Presented by
Capt. KH. J. Forsdyke and Capt. F. N. Pryce.
LV.—Gold and Silver.
Gold pendant in the form of a lion’s head, surmounted by a
double palmette. From Acarnania.
Gold necklace of plain and poppy-shaped beads. From
Acarnania.
Silver-gilt statuette of Jupiter seated, half-draped, wreathed,
and holding a thunderbolt. Almost certainly belonging to
the great find of silver statuettes made at Macon on Ist
March, 1760, from which eight other statuettes passed
through the Payne Knight collection into the Museum in
1824. See De Caylus, Recueil, vii., p. 243. Ht.-072 m.
V.—Lead.
Head of a bearded man. Ht. +045 m.
V1.— Bronze.
Helmet parade mask, of Roman Imperial date. The surface,
except the hair, has been covered with a coat of white metal.
Width -275 m. Acquired at Aintab by Major C. L.
Woolley.
Corinthian helmet, of fine workmanship, with palmette and
tongue pattern. Ht.:238m. From Karaburun. Presented
by the British Salonica Force.
Two handled cup with fluted sides, of the Hellenistic period,
from Causica. Similarly acquired.
A large number of other bronze or iron objects from tombs
near Salonica, similarly acquired, including two shield
bosses ; spear heads, swords, &c. ; fibule of the Hallstatt
spiral and other types ; pins, beads, rings and armlets.
Statuette of a gladiator in armour, with arm raised appealing
for a decision. Ht. -:135 m. Gréau Sale, 1884, lot 264.
Weber Sale, lot 185.
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25.
26.
27.
28.
74 Se
30.
31.
32.
33.
34.
35.
36.
37,
38.
ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
Statuette of Cerberus with heads of lion, panther and dog.
Gréau Sale, 1884, lot 850. Weber Sale, lot 184.
Statuette of a Boar, inscribed with a dedication by Myrtine
to the Theos Sabazios.
Statuette of a winged Gryphon.
Statuette of a female Faun carrying a child.
Plaque with design of a Gryphon. (Nos. 26-29 Weber Sale,
lot 231).
Fragment of relief; Achilles dipped in the Styx by his
mother and Achilles delivered by Peleus to Chiron.
Castellani Sale, 1884, lot 283. Weber Sale, lot 172a. .
Cf. Bull. d. Com. Arch. Com., 1877, Plates XI, XII,
XIII.
VII.—Pottery.
Cypriote Bronze-age vase with decoration of incised lines.
Presented by Mrs. Broadwood.
Attic kylix with the otherwise unknown signature ‘ Arch-
eneides.” Wan Branteghem and Weber Collections,
Attic red-figured kantharos, with designs of a woman spinning
and a woman holding an alabastron. Weber Sale, lot 276,
Calene phiale with reliefs from the Odyssey : the Sirens,
Scylla, the Phzeacian ship, Odysseus and Argus. Found
at Corneto (Tarquinii). Bull. d. Inst., 1867, p. 129, and
Ann. d. Inst., 1875, Tav. N. Presented by F. Parkes
Weber, Hsq., M.D.
A fragment of a mould for Arretine ware with design of
dancing girls, and a series of fragments of Roman pottery
with relief decoration and pottery stamps. [From the C. EH.
Norton collection. :
A large series of vases and sherds from tombs in Macedonia,
comprising various prehistoric wares, including a restored
vase and many fragments of incised ware, and Thessalian
painted wares; painted pottery of the Mycenzean and
Geometric periods ; a pyxis of Corinthian style with three
female busts in relief ; a kothon of black-figure style ; sherds
of Attic red-figure fabric ; a jug of the Hellenistic period
with gilt design of a wreath ; and many unpainted vases,
mainly of Roman date. Also the miscellaneous contents of
the tombs including implements in stone or bone, glass,
metal, &e. Collected and presented by the British Salonica
Force, with the sanction of the Greek Government.
VITL.— Terracotta.
Tanagra statuette of a girl holding a fan. Presented by the
late Dowager Viscountess Wolseley.
Statuette of Artemis with deer. From Corinth. Weber
Sale, lot 115. ©. Lecuyer, Terres Cuites Ant., pl. B;
Winter, Typen, II]. 2, p. 163, No. 3.
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39. Group in relief of two women, one playing on pipes, the
other on a lyre. Weber Sale, lot 117.
40. Statuette of a girl playing on a stringed instrument. Weber
Sale, lot 117.
IX.—Casts and Reproductions.
41. Model of an Etruscan tomb in cork.
42. Cast of the face of horseman No. 30 of South side of the
Frieze of the Parthenon (Acropolis Museum, No. 4865).
Presented by M. A. Keramopoulos, Acropolis Museum, Athens.
A. H. Smith.
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DEPARTMENT OF BritIsH AND MeEpIavaAL ANTIQUITIES AND
HTHNOGRAPHY.
1. Arrangement, Cataloguing, Se.
Prehistoric Room.—tThe exhibition drawers have been overhauled
and a number of additions made.
Tron Age Gallery.—The arrangement of the collections illustrating
the Early and Later Iron Ages was completed and the gallery opened
to the public in January, 1919.
Room of Roman Britain—The exhibition drawers have been
overhauled and fresh labels added.
King Edward VII. Gallery (Ground floor).—The re-arrangement
of the Medizeval and of the Ceramic collections, which had been
packed and removed for safety, is in progress ; the English and
Italian pottery and the foreign porcelain have been arranged, and a
temporary arrangement of the Chinese porcelain made.
Christian Room, and Buddhist Room.—The arrangement in
exhibition cases of the early Christian collections, and of those
illustrating Buddhism, has been completed, and these rooms were
opened to the public in April, 1919. A number of fresh labels have
been prepared for the latter collection.
Room of Indian Religions.—Some re-arrangement of the Gand-
hara sculptures has been made, and a number of fresh labels provided
for these and for the Jain sculptures. The room was opened to the
public in January, 1919.
Asiatic Saloon.—The arrangement of the Chinese and Japanese
collections and of oriental metal work has been completed ; the
Stein collections from Chinese Turkestan have been placed in
exhibition cases, and a temporary exhibition of Buddhist scrolls was
arranged for the Conference of the Asiatic Societies of the Allied
Nations.
Accommodation is also provided for an ethnographical collection
from Uganda, deposited by His Majesty the King. The room was
re-opened to the public in January, 1919.
Plaquette Room.—The arrangement and labelling of the pla-
quettes has been completed, and the room opened to the public
early in 1919.
Ethnographical Gallery—The gallery was re-opened to the
public in February, 1919. A temporary arrangement of a portion
of the Mexican and Peruvian Antiquities has been made in the
Asiatic section. The ivory carvings from Benin, the Hawaiian
feather cloaks, and the Fijian pottery, which had been removed for
safety, have been re-exhibited ; type cases illustrating primitive
currency and methods of making fire have been arranged and labelled
for demonstration by Museum Lecturers, and a number of additions
made to the exhibits in the African section.
DEPARTMENT OF BRITISH AND MEDIAVAL ANTIQUITIES. 59
Basement.—A complete re-arrangement of the Hthnographical
collections stored in the basement is in progress. The unpacking of
the collections placed in cubes and removed for safety has been
completed. The Sturge collection of stone implements has been
transported, partly unpacked, and stored.
Registration, §c¢.—The registration of current acquisitions has
been continued and 1,626 objects have been added including
ethnographical specimens. A slip catalogue of the Harland gift of
salt-glaze pottery has been made. Numbers have been painted on
1,772 specimens, and 428 permanent labels written. Objects have
been mounted to the number of 771, as well as a large number of
rings and ring-impressions ; 105 mounting boards have been papered,
a number of case fittings lined with cloth, and 545 printed and
typewritten labels bordered ; 20 photographs have been taken, and
48 photographic prints made. “A large number of ethnographical
specimens have been examined, cleaned, and remounted.
An index of the photographs and of the ethnographical documents
is in progress, two volumes of the register have been indexed, and
the card-catalogue of the departmental library continued.
A number of stucco figures of the Stein collection has been
mounted on specially prepared stands, the model of a Chinese house
has been reconstructed, and a special case prepared for the exhibition
of the jade terrapin from Northern India.
The arrangement and labelling of the collections illustrating
Oriental religions have been greatly facilitated by the assistance of
Mr. Longworth Dames, and Mr. Oscar Raphael has given much
time to the arrangement of the Ceramic collection.
Two lectures have been delivered in the Iron Age Gallery, and
one to the Geologists’ Association.
Students.—804 students and visitors have been received in the
Department.
2.— Acquisitions.
(1) Prehistoric and Karly British Antiquities :—
(a) Stone Age.—Series of worked flints from the Middle Glacial
gravel (below the Chalky Boulder-clay) in a sand-pit north of
Ipswich, described in Journal of Royal Anthropological Institute,
xlix, 74; and a series of flint implements showing the transition
from rostro-carinate to hand-axe form. Presented by J. Reid Moir,
Esq.
Large flint paleeolithic hand-axe from Pokesdown, Hants.
Presented by W. M. Newton, Esq.
Implement of rare form, found 6 feet down in gravel between
Pokesdown and Boscombe stations, Hants. Presented by Dr.
7. G. Longstaff.
Seven palzeoliths from gravel at Botwell, Middlesex ; two cones
of Aurignac type from Suffolk, and selected specimens from various
sites in England. Presented by G. Buscall Fox, Esq.
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Two white paleoliths from gravel-pit at Dunbridge, Hants.,
described in Archeologia, \xiii, 138, fig. 32, and in Proceedings
of the Society of Antiquaries, xxiv, 114. Presented by William
Dale, Esq., PSA.
Patinated celt with traces of polish, from a pit at Heacham,
Norfolk ; described in Proc. Soc. Antiq., xxxi, 54. Presented by
B. Lowerison, Esq.
Series of patinated flints from below Avebury Down, Wilts ;
described in Proc. Soc. Antig., xxxi, 78. Presented by Rev. H. G.
O. Kendall, F.S.A.
Series of flint arrowheads, &c. from the Cotswold Hills.
Presented by Col. F. Cardew.
Selection from specimens found at Penmaenmawr, Carnarvon-
shire, on working site described in Journ. R. Anthrop. Jnst. vol. xlix.
Presented by S. H. Warren, Esq. F.GS.
Two pottery spoons of the neolithic period, found at Hassocks,
Sussex ; described in Proc. Soc. Antig., xxxi, 175. Presented by
J. E. Couchman, Esq., F.S.A.
(b) Bronze Age.—Bronze blade of narrow leaf form, found at
Nanmor, near Beddgelert, Carnarvonshire ; described in Proc. Soe.
lntig., xxx, 175. Presented by Capt. G. H. Higson.
Bronze oval razor, perforated, from the Thames at Putney.
Presented by Capt. John Ball.
(c) Early Iron Age.—Four portions of bronze bridle-bits from
Carneddau Hengwm, Merionethshire. Presented by Mrs. Charles
Williams.
Bronze bow of early Italian brooch with traces of iron, said to
be from York. Presented by Capt. J. Ball.
(d) Foreign.—Twenty stone implements from gravel and surface,
found by the donor in South Africa. Described in Journ. R.
Anthrop. Inst., xlv, 79. Presented by Major EF. R. Collins, D.S.O.
Eleven drift-type implements, and ten small black implements
from gravel at Taungs, Cape Province, collected by the donor.
Presented by Rev. Neville Jones.
Series of diorite implements of paleeolithic types, found on
surface of De Put farm, 42 miles S.W. of Bloemfontein, by the
donor’s son. Presented by M. Leviseur, Esq.
Selection from an Egyptian collection of flint implements.
Presented by Montagu Porch, Esq.
Flint tortoise-core found on the plateau above river at Uqbah,
near Ramadi, Mesopotamia, by Major A. G. Lyell (the donor’s son).
Presented by J. C. Lyell, Esq.
Flint flake with ‘“ battered back,” found one mile west of Rafa,
Palestine. Presented by the Hon. W. Lindsay.
Series of chalcedony cores, &c., from Wadgaon, Nira Valley,
Poona District, Bombay Presidency. Presented by G. Keatinge,
Hise, G.15.
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Large stone implement from Taunghu, Lower Burma, and two
are implements from the Southern Shan States. Presented by
. A. Robertson, Esq.
Part of diorite celt, found at Kwang-ning, Manchuria. Presented
by Rev. William Hunter.
Implements of stone and crystal from the northern (Tamil) district
of Ceylon. Presented by Principal C. Hartley.
Series of flint flakes from Dépt. Eure, France. Presented by
M. Léon Coutil, Hon. FSA.
Bronze sickle from Villacarrillo, Jaen, Spain (from Greenwell -
Collection). Presented by Horace Sandars, Hsq., FSA.
(2).—The Sturge Bequest.
By the death of Dr. Allen Sturge, M.V.O., on 27th March,
1919, the finest private collection of stone implements in existence
pas eed by bequest to this Department. When packed, the collection,
including the exhibition and storage cases that formed part of the
Bequest, weighed about 25 tons, and was conveyed by road from
Icklingham Hall, Suffolk, during the summer.
The north-west angle of Suffolk is abundantly represented by
specimens excavated from clay and gravel or more frequently
picked up on the surface, to a large extent by Dr. and Mrs. Sturge ;
and the series from Warren Hill, High Lodge and Elveden are of
the highest importance. Hundreds of Drift implements come from
gravel pits in the Thames valley near Dawley (Hayes, Middlesex)
and quantities from other well-known sites, such as Swanscombe,
Farnham, Dunbridge, Southampton, Savernake Forest, Bedford and
Broom. A large quantity had been acquired from Mr. Worthington
Smith, mostly found in north-east London ; and other collections
made* by Canon Greenwell, and Messrs. Greenhill, Allen Brown,
Simeon Fenton, Robert Elliot, Bryce Wright and Thomas Bateman
were incorporated.
The foreign section is also very rich, the entire contents of
many French caves having been obtained from M. Reverdi. Chief
among such specimens is a Solutré blade from the hoard found at
Volgu in the Dépt.-Sadne-et-Loire ; and the French Drift and
nreolithic series are well selected. Scandinavia, Western and
Southern Hurope are adequately represented, and there is a large
collection from the Swiss lake-dwellings. An ample Eg gyptian
series contains some of the best flint work known, and there are
hundreds of excellent examples from America, Sonutly and East
Africa, and Madras. A summary description in French of the
whole collection was printed for the meeting of the International
Congress of mea and Prehistoric Archeology which met at
Monaco in 1906.
The unpacking and ec cwiviit of the collection are hindered
by want of space, owing to continued occupation by a Government
Department ; and even after the existing cases have been filled,
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many new exhibition cases suitable for the public gallery, and
sufficient space to accommodate them, must be provided, before the
public can obtain access to this remarkable bequest.
(3.) Anglo-Saxon and Foreign Teutonic.
Anglian cinerary urn, and a bronze Viking barrel-padlock key,
both found near Icklingham, Suffolk. Presented by Mrs. Sturge.
(4.) Medieval and Later.
(a) British—The Breadalbane penannular brooch, found pro-
bably in Scotland ; a fine example of Irish (Scotic) work dating
about 780 A.D. of silver with gold filigree and glass inlay, and two
dises of trumpet-scrolls on the back ; described in Proc. Soc. Antiq.,
xxxll. Presented by Sir John Ramsden, Bart.
Top of a large bronze censer, originally gilt, dating about 1200.
Bequeathed by Robert John Steggles, Esq.
Leaden seal-matrix, 12th century. Presented by Sir Hercules
Read, P.S.A.
Embroidery panel of opus anglicanum, with scenes from the life
of the Virgin, 13th century. Bequeathed by Condesa de Valencia de
Don Juan.
Ivory diptychs and panels, 14th century.
Copper censer in Romanesque style, and copper incense boat..
Bronze prong in case, late 15th or 16th century, from Colchester.
Presented by W. G. W. Lake, Esq.
Bronze seal-matrix, 16th century, and leaden pound weight with
portcullis (badge of Henry VII). Presented by Mrs. Sturge.
Shell cameo with female bust, gold watch by Le Roy, another
with enamelled case, and three gold chains. Bequeathed by
Miss A. M. Newton.
(b) Foreign.—lIron arrowhead, probably for a cross-bow, found
in the citadel of Aleppo. Presented by Mrs. Cliford Baz.
Bronze and iron arrowheads, and a leaf-shaped bronze blade,
from Jerusalem. Presented by Major Paget.
Brass seal-matrix of the High Court, Republic of Swaziland.
Presented by C. B. Jones, Esq. —
Two large shells finely carved in cameo with figure-subjects ;
Neapolitan, 19th century. Presented by the Dowager. Countess
Brassey.
(5) Ceramic and Glass Collections.
(a) Oriental Wares.—Stone-ware vessel said to be of the Han
dynasty. Presented by Professor Bateson, F.R.S.
Chinese pottery vase, with figures of animals in relief, probably
6th century. Presented by C. T. Loo, Esq.
Chinese pottery figure of a lady, believed to date from the 6th
century. Presented by Julius Spier, Esq.
Celadon cup, Sung dynasty.
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Chinese pottery vase with black glaze, probably 14th century.
Presented by Sir Hercules Read, P.S.A.
Two Chinese porcelain plates painted in blue with the crest of
the donor’s family, and another painted in colour with the arms and
crest of the same, made in 1731, with photographs of the original
invoices. Presented by C. R. Peers, Esq., Sec. S.A.
Reddish brown pottery vase with traces of blue ground and two
figures of horses in relief, from Sampsunte, near Trebizond. Pre-
sented by M. C. A. Lambressis.
Pottery tile with inlaid design on black ground, from Kazi
Main, site of old Baghdad, destroyed in 1259. Presented by Brig.-
Gen. Pope Hennessy.
(b) Continental—lItalian maiolica vase with bust of Giulio
Romano on side, and scroll bearing his name, early 16th century.
Bequeathed by Elton Bechely Ede, Esq.
(c) English.—Three Wedgwood oval medallion portraits. Be-
queathed by Condesa de Valencia de Don Juan.
Pottery reliquary (?) in the shape of a high saddle, medieval.
Presented by Capt. F. Corner, R.A.M.C.
-A valuable addition has been made to the collection of English
pottery by Mr. Bryan T. Harland’s gift of 120 selected pieces of
Staffordshire salt-glaze. This ware, which is perhaps the most
original of our native earthenwares, was inadequately represented in
the Museum ; but it can now be studied here in all its known types.
The addition comprises some rare figures, a good series of white and
some admirable coloured examples, including a number of inscribed
and dated pieces.
(d) Glass.—Pigment bottle of the Arab period from Palestine.
Presented by Mrs. C. H. Evans.
_ Fifteen specimens of bottles, &c., from a Roman tomb in Cyprus.
Presented by Mrs. Broadwood.
(6.) Collection illustrating various Religions.
(a) Christianity.—A large series of Coptic antiquities excavated
at Wadi Sarga near Assittt in the winter of 1913-14, including a
mural painting with the “Three Children of Babylon” in the fiery
furnace, examples of architectural sculpture, ostraka, pottery and
various small objects. Presented by the Committee of the Byzantine
Research and Publication Fund.
A pottery lamp inscribed in Greek characters, from Elephantine
Island, Assuan. Presented by the Dowager Viscountess Wolseley.
A stone slab of the 12th century with carved decoration on both
sides, said to come from a church at Miafarkin, N.E. of Diarbekr,
Kurdistan.
(6) Buddhism.—An alabaster seated Jain figure found in a well
in Shahpura, Rajputana. Presented by Col. J. Biddulph.
A large bronze seated figure of Buddha, from Burma.
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(c) Brahmanism.—A number of Hindu religious figurines in
cast bronze, and a silver incense spoon from Ceylon. Presented by
Col. F. H. Ward.
An alabaster head and a bronze hand-bell with anthropomorphic
handle, from India. Presented anonymously.
(7.) Oriental and Ethnographical.
Asia.—Two bronze lamps and a pair of bronze horns worn by
trotting bullocks in Madras, from India ; carved ivory comb from
Ceylon ; and an ivory merchant’s seal and set of porcelain gambling-
house tokens, from Siam. Presented by Col. F. H. Ward.
Seven ancient seals and intaglios inscribed in various characters,
from India and Persia. Presented by Col. H. E. Deane.
A magic triangular copper plate engraved in Devanagari
characters, from India. Presented by Miss Burgess.
A bronze chape with design of birds and floral scrolls in relief,
of medigeval Persian workmanship, found in the ruins of old Cairo.
Presented by G. D. Hornblower, Esq.
A bronze bowl and cover of medizeval Korean work, found in
a grave. Presented by Prof. W. Bateson, F.R.S.
A bronze seated figure, 16th century, from Java. Presented by
Miss Bieber.
A football with stand and case as used by the Japanese aristocracy,
and a piece of batik cloth, dyed with Chinese designs, from Java.
Presented by Dr. Hildburgh, FSA. ,
A silk banner presented to Col. Charles Ellis by the Chinese
government in 1870, in recognition of his humanity in saving the
lives of the Chinese City Guard. Presented by Mrs. Pembroke
Stevens.
A series of painted wooden figures, worshipped by the boat-living
community of Southern China.
An ethnographical series from the Veddas, Ceylon. Presented
by Prof. C. G. Seligman F.R.S.
A number of weapons, helmets, and other objects from the Naga
tribes, Assam. Presented by Major J. Hardcastle.
Six woven and embroidered shoulder bags from the Kachin
tribes, Upper Burma. Presented by L. Lacy Langley, Esq.
A bow and staff from Ceylon, a powder flask from Tibet, and a
pipe and other objects from the Naga of Assam. Presented by
A. W. Fuller, Esq.
A fire-piston of buffalo horn from the Kachin, Upper Burma.
Presented by H. W. L. Way, Esq.
A blow-gun and bamboo quiver containing darts, from the
Sakai of Perak, Malay States. Presented by Mrs. A. W. Franklin.
A number of models of houses, wooden figures, textiles, and
other objects from Burma.
Africa.—A number of weapons, paddles oad other objects from
various parts of Africa. Presented by A. W. Fuller, Esq.
DEPARTMENT OF BRITISH AND MEDIZVAL ANTIQUITIES. 65
An ethnographical series from the Mwimbe tribe, Kenya Province,
British Hast Africa. Presented by W. Allen, Esq.
A number of ethnographical objects from South of Lake Albert
and from Ruwenzori, Uganda. Presented by Lieut-Col. E. M.
Jack.
An otter-skin tobacco pouch from the Wa-Tusi of Ruanda.
Hast Africa. Presented by Capt. T. L. Phillips, M.C.
A number of weapons and other objects from Togoland. Pre-
sented by Capt. C. H. Armitage.
A series of stone implements of neolithic type from Zaria
Province, Northern Nigeria. Presented by Montagu Porch, Esq.
A network “juju” dress from Ikom, Cross River, Nigeria.
Presented by W. H. Whitehead, Esq.
A wooden statuette of a male native, from the neighbourhood of
Lagos, Nigeria. Presented by Lows C. G. Clarke, Esq., FSA.
A pair of wooden dancing masks, probably from Nigeria. Pre-
sented by Dr. F. Corner.
_ A wooden standing figure of a Zulu, from South Africa. Pre-
sented by. Henry A. Pegram, Esq. A.R.A.
A number of head-dresses of native regiments, beerstrainers, and
clay models from the Matabili, Cape Province.
Oceania.—A series of spears from the Northern Territory and
West Australia, and a carved double head from Haster Island.
Presented by A. W. Fuller, Esq.
A prepared skull from the Augusta River district, New Guinea.
Presented by C. Stewart Mackay, Esq.
An important ethnographical series including a number of
prepared skulls, from the Augusta River region, New Guinea.
A jade “tiki” from New Zealand. Presented by the Dowager
Viscountess Wolseley.
Two small carved figures of modern workmanship, from Easter
Island. Presented by Fleet Surgeon W. S. H. Sequeira.
A fine carved figure of the god “ Oro” from Rarotonga, Hervey
Islands.
America.—A number of pottery vessels and other objects from
ancient graves, Peru. Presented by A. W. Fuller, Esq.
Three pieces of stone sculpture from Costa Rica, and two pottery
vases. Presented by Mrs. A. M. Church.
A fine collection of South American “ maté’s”’ (Paraguay—tea-
vessels) showing evolution from the simple gourd form, and three
harpoon heads from Tierra del Fuego. Presented by Col. F. H.
Ward.
A series of textiles, pottery, and copper ornaments from ancient
graves at Nasca, Peru. Collected by Dr. H. O. Forbes, F.RS.
The contents of two Indian graves and a totemic figure, from the
Queen Charlotte Islands, together with a Chilkat cloak from the
North West Coast.
A Chilkat cloak with inwoven totemic designs.
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CHRISTY COLLECTION.
During the year the Trustees have acquired by donation the
following objects, which have been transferred to the Trustees of
the British Museum :—
(1.) Ethnography of Asia.
A scroll picture of Buddhist divinities from China, and an
amuletic necklace of carnelian arrowheads, probably Syrian.
Presented by Sir Hercules Read, P.S.A.
A chain mail shirt obtained at the Tartar bazaar in Tiflis.
Presented by Major J. J. Darlow.
A pottery reliquary cover, found on the surface near Amplur
Pak Bong, Lampun District, Upper Siam. Presented by A. L.
Queripel, Esq.
A double skull hand-drum, used in Lamaistic ritual, Tibet.
Presented by Mrs. Herbert Godsal.
Three photographic negatives of a Dyak man wearing an
ornament called “ampallang,” Borneo. Presented by Dr. C. L.
Sansom, C.M.G.
(2.) Ethnography of Africa.
A series of obsidian flaked implements from British East Africa.
Presented by C. W. Hobley, Esq., C.M.G.
Two shields and a number of spears from the Wa-Kinyikiusa,
Lake Nyassa. Presented by T. A. V. Best, Esq.
Two ceremonial masks worn by boys after initiation, from the
Zombo country, lower Congo. Presented by the Baptist Missionary
Society.
A number of conventional iron arrow-heads used as currency by,
the bush people of the Abajali District, Southern Nigeria.
Presented by the Director of the Bank of British West Africa.
A fetish of shells and hair bound with string, probably from
West Africa. Presented by Mrs. Flecknoe.
A wooden carved figure representing a man emerging from a
serpent’s mouth, from West Africa. Presented by Capt. P. L. O.
Guy.
A seated female figure carved in black wood, from Mendiland,
Sierra Leone. Presented by Capt. Keith Honda en.
A white metal cup from Zanzibar. Presented by T. B. Clarke-
Thornhill, Esq.
A carved wooden cup from the Kasai River, Congo. Presented
by Louis G. C. Clarke, Esq., FSA.
(3.) Ethnography of Oceania.
An ethnographical series from British New Guinea. Presented
by Capt. F. R. Barton, CMG.
Two spears with shell and feather ornament, from New Britain.
Presented by A. E. Ridsdale, Esq.
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Two painted wooden clubs from the Santa Cruz Islands.
Presented by Alfred Fowler, Esq.
An appliance for catching deyil-fish, made of the claw of a
devil-fish, from Ysabel, Solomon Islands. Presented by J. Hdge-
Partington, Esq.
A wooden hook for catching ‘ lavenga,” from Ontong Java,
Solomon Islands. Presented by C. M. Woodford, Esq., C.M.G.
Two featherwork bags from the Maori, New Zealand. Presented
by Mrs. Frank Morley.
A wooden adze-handle of exceptional length, from New Zealand.
Presented by A. D. Passmore, Esq.
A woven belt from the Caroline Islands. Presented by Mrs.
Greg. ;
(4.) Antiquities and Kthnography of America.
A carved stone pendant, a stone arrow-head, a finger ring, a
copper spatula with spherical handle in openwork design, represent-
ing fighting warriors and lizards, and other objects, from graves at
Ancon, Peru. Presented by Louis C. G. Clarke, Esq., PS.A.
A carved ivory fragment in the form of a lion’s head, found on
the inter-Andean plateau near Cuzco, Peru. Presented by Dr.
H. O. Forbes, F.R.S.
A number of stone arrow-heads from Vancouver, British
Columbia. Presented by Lneut.-Col. C. E. Cardew.
A shrunk human head from the Jivaro Indians, Heuador.
Presented by EH. G. Dre«el, Esq.
An embroidered leather band, from the Eskimo. Presented by
Mrs. Greg.
A “corvo,” or fighting knife, in a leather sheath, from Chile.
Presented by Dr. Olegario Olivares.
(5.) Hthnography of Europe.
A woollen costume consisting of cap,'cloak, and trousers, from
the neighbourhood of Boris Gleb, Russian Lapland. Presented by
Miss Noel.
In addition to the above donations, the Christy Trustees have
acquired by purchase a pre-Columbian carved wooden stool, found
in a cave in the Bahama Islands, in about the year 1820.
Permanent Loans.
The following additions have been made to the Collections
permanently deposited in the Department :—
A ceremonial dress and silver-gilt ornaments, presented to H.M.
the Queen by the Royal Embassy from Abyssinia. Deposited by
HM. the Queen.
A number of robes, and head-dresses, and a state sword, forming
a conqueror’s equipment, presented to H.M. the King by the Royai
Embassy from Abyssinia. Deposited by H.M. the King.
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An ethnographical series from Uganda, presented to H.M. the
King by H.H. the King of Uganda. Deposited by H.M. the King.
A series of ivory ornaments and charms presented to H.M. the
King by the chief of the Ondonga tribe, Ovamboland, S.W. Africa.
Deposited by H.M. the King.
Several pieces of Oriental armour. Transferred from the Royal
United Service Institution.
Charles H. Read.
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DEPARTMENT OF COINS AND MEDALS.
DEPARTMENT OF Corns AND MEDALS.
l.—Registration and Arrangement.
1.— Greek Series.
918 coins recently acquired have been weighed and registered
and 1,333 incorporated, while 104 casts and electrotypes have been
incorporated in the collection of casts, &c., of coins not in the
Museum. Various collections of coins offered for purchase or
donation have been examined and selections made, notably from the
well-known collection of the late Sir Hermann Weber. All the
coin trays in the Greek series have been re-labelled with running
numbers and the labels of the cabinets containing them have been
re-written so as to correspond with their contents. The series of
early electrum coins has been transferred into glazed trays of the
new pattern. The bibliography has been kept up to date.
2.—Roman NSeries.
438 coins recently acquired have been registered and 504
incorporated, while a considerable number of coins hitherto classed
as “duplicates” or “miscellaneous”? have been re-examined, and
some of them have been found worthy of incorporation in the regular
series. The collection of casts and electrotypes of coins not in the
British Museum has been re-arranged throughout and important
additions made. Collections offered for purchase or donation have
been examined and selections made. The collections of forgeries and
of barbarous imitations of the Imperial Series have been re-arranged,
while the coinage of the reign of Septimius Severus has been re-
classified chronologically and according to mints. A beginning has
also been made with the re-classification of the issues of the later
third century. The bibliography has been kept up to date.
3.—British and Colonial Series.
4,446 coins have been registered and 3,538 incorporated, the
large totals being due to the recent accession of the Morgan-Evans
Collection of Anglo-Saxon and English coins, of the Evans Col-
lection of early British coins and of the Graham Collection of
English coins. Collections offered for purchase or donation have
been examined and selections made.
4.—Modern and Medieval Series.
1,446 coins have been registered and 2,977 incorporated (in-
cluding the Dewick bequest). Various collections offered for pur-
chase or donation have been examined and selections made. ‘The
Italian medals of the fifteenth century have been re-arranged and
re-labelled and the German and other War Medals have been
re-classified according to subjects.
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5.—Oriental Series.
469 coins have been registered and 549 have been incorporated,
while duplicates and unclassed miscellaneous have been re-examined
and a certain number inserted in the general series. Several parcels
of coins offered for purchase or donation have been examined and
selections made. The series of the Moghul Emperors has been
revised, certain rectifications made and many additional heading
cards added.
I1.— Publications.
1.— Catalogue of Greek Coins.
Coins of Arabia, Mesopotamia, §¢., by G. F. Hill. The text of
the portions relating to Nabataea, Roman Arabia, Mesopotamia,
Ancient Persia and Persis has been revised and the introduction
written to that relating to Elymais.
Coins of Cyrenaica, Sc., by E. 8. G. Robinson.
Work has been resumed on the catalogue of this series.
2. Catalogue of Roman Coins.
Coins of the Early Empire, Augustus to Vitellius, by H.
Mattingly.
The coins have been arranged and described as far as the end of
the reign of Claudius.
3. Catalogue of Oriental Coins.
Ancient Indian Coins, by J. Allan.
Work has been resumed on the Catalogue of this series.
III.— Acquisitions.
The total number of coins and medals added to the Department
during the year 1919 was 6,301, of which 602 were of gold, 3,328
of silver, 1,905 of bronze, and 466 of other metals. The average of
the preceding ten years was 2,406.
The following table shows the numbers of the new acquisitions
classified according to the several series to which they belong :—
eo ie beta Other
Class. Gold. Silver. | Bronze. Metals. Total.
Greek .. ae ae was ae 507 854 694 21 2,076
rece fos ‘ion aa 13 364 111 1 489
British and Gclontat Soe ne 22 1,150 530 25 1,727
Medieval and Modern ... ia 36 788 494 412 1,730
Oriental ie Sas ame re 24 172 tee 6 278
Chinese as sat se i — — — 1 1
Totals ... Bos its 602 3,328 1,905 466 6,301
Of the above 5,249 were presented, viz. 525 of ee 2,682 of
silver, 1,592 of ‘heen and 450 of other metals.
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The following is a list of benefactors to the Department of Coins
and Medals during the past year :—
H.M. the Queen; H.I.H. the Prince Napoleon ; Admiral the
Marquess of Milford Haven; the Marquess of Lansdowne ; the
Deputy Master of the Royal Mint ; the Deputy Master of the Royal
Mint, Ottawa ; the Bihar and Orissa Coin Committee, Patna ; the
Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society ; the Egypt Explora-
tion Fund ; the National Art Collections Fund; the Air Force
Administration ; the Joan of Are Statue Committee ; the United
Grand Lodge of England; the St. Paul’s Royal Arch Chapter,
Boston, Mass.; More Adey, Esq. ; Captain Amundsen ; Shirley
Atchley, Esq.; the late Colonel W. F. Badgley; Oswald N.
Bakewell, Esq.; A. H. Baldwin, Esq.; F. Pierrepont Barnard,
Hsq., D. Litt.; Mrs. M. Blake; S. M. G. Box, HEsq.; Edwin
Bradnam, Esq. ; Major P. W. Browne; Major J. P. Bushe-Fox ;
J. T. Chell, Esq. ; John Copland, Esq.; M. F. Crooy; H. R.
Crosthwaite, Esq., C.I.E.; Captain 8S. Culverwell ; Glenn H.
Curtiss, Esq. ; Colonel H. E. Deane, I.M.S. ; the late Rev. HE. S.
Dewick ; Rev. R. H. Dickson; K. Dingwall, Esq. ; Campbell
Dodgson, Hsq., C.B.E.; Edmund Dulac, Hsq.; 8. M. Edwardes,
Esq., C.S.1., C.V.0O.; General Sir Raleigh Egerton ; Sir Arthur
Evans, .F.R.S.; G. Eumorfopoulos, Esq. ; Miss Helen Farquhar ;
L. T. Ford, Esq.; Heer M. Frankenhuis; G. H. Gabb, sq. ;
Henry Garside, Esq.; the Gas Light & Coke Company ; Stephen
Gaselee, Hsq.: Rev. L. Goodenough ; Lt.-Col. C. L. Graham ;
T. H. B. Graham, Esq.; Sir Evelyn Grant Duff, K.C.M.G. ;
- William Gordon Gray, Esq. ; Mrs. H. Grogan ; H, M. Hake, Hsq. ;
H.R. Hall, Esq. ; Lt. Herbert Hart ; G. F. Hill, Esq. ; Sir Henry
H. Howorth, K.C.L.EH.; Miss C. A. Hutton; T. Jennings, Hsq. ;
Louis Keen, Esq. ; F. C. Kelly, Esq. ; L/Cpl. P. Lanauze ; L. A.
Lawrence, Esq. ; Capt. W. H. Lee-Warner ; W. Harle Leigh, Hsq ;
Miss Lidgett ; the Hon. W. Lindsay ; Dr. August von Loehr ;
the London Stereoscopic. Co. ; Staff-Set. R. Longstaff ; Miss
Lyon ; George Macdonald, Hsq., C.B.; W. Marchant, Esq. ; P. J.
Marks, Esq.; Colonel A. Masters; H. Mattingly, Esq.; J.
Mavrogordato, Esq.; J. G. Milne, Esq. ; ©. Minter, Esq.; A. T
Monck-Mason, Esq. ; the Mond Nickel Co. ; Prof. J. L. Myres ;
H. Nelson Wright, Esq. ; Henry H. Parkes, Esq.; Lt. C. H. S.
Palmer, R.N.V.R. ; Colonel A. G. Phear, A.M.S. ; Mandeville B.
Phillips, Esq. ; T. Poska, Esq. ; Executors of the late Sir Edward
Poynter, P.R.A. ; Sir Hercules Read, P.S.A.; A. P. Ready, Esq. ;
kh. D. Roberts, Esq. ; E.S.G. Robinson, Esq. ; Maurice Rosenheim,
Hsq.; Lady Rumbold, (representing the British Section, Berne
Bread Bureau) ; Mrs. Ernest Schuster ; Edward Shepherd, Hsq. ;
Messrs. Spink & Son ; Maurice Stack, Esq. ; Henry Symonds, Esq. ;
Lt.-Col. the Hon. M. G. Talbot; Miss EH. M. Thompson ; P.
Thorburn, Esq.; J. H. A. Titley, Esq. ; J. Toubkin, Esq. ; H. C.
W. Tucker, Esq. ; W. H. Valentine, Esq. ; Henry Van den Bergh,
Esq. ; Dr. Gordon Ward ; Captain A. W. T. Webb; Dr. F. Parkes
Weber ; Mr. J. Wilcke ; Howland Wood, Esq. ; W. H. Woodward,
Hsq. ; A. H. 8. Yeames, Esq. ; Philip Ziegler, Esq.
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ITV.—Remarkable Coins and Medals.
The year has been remarkable both for the quality and for the
number of acquisitions. The bequest of the Dewick Collection,
consisting chiefly of medizval Continental coins; the gifts by Sir
Arthur Evans of the collection of Early British and other Celtic
coins formed by his father, Sir John Evans; and by Mr. T. H. B.
Graham of his collection of English silver and copper ; and above
all the purchase, with the help of a special grant .of £10,000, and
of subscriptions from the National Art Collections Fund and a
number of private sources, of a selection of the most important
Greek coins from the Sir Hermann Weber Collection, are the chief
features in the year’s record.
1. Greek Series.
The acquisitions from the Weber Collection by donation or
purchase are 34 gold or electrum, 204 silver and 37 bronze coins of
all parts of the Greek world, and of all periods from the seventh
century B.c. to the third century of our era. Some of the most
-important among them are the following :—
Catana and Gela in Sicily. Two rare fifth-century tetradrachms,
of unusual style. Presented by W. H. Woodward, Esq.
Hiimera in Sicily. Silver tetradrachm of the second quarter of
the fifth century ; obv. Pelops in his car ; rev. the nymph Himera—a
remarkable study of the archaic draped female figure. Of this coin
only one other specimen is known, in the Prince of Waldeck’s
collection.
Silver didrachm of the same period. Obv. Horseman alighting.
Rev. Nymph Himera sacrificing, with the masculine inscription
Soter. Similar to the only other published specimen, which is at
Berlin.
Mende in Thrace. A unique silver tetradrachm of the fifth
century ; type: the ass of Dionysus. ;
Thracian Chersonese (Gallipoli). Silver stater of about 500 B.c.
Obv. Lion with reverted head. Rev. Head of Athena. One of
the five recorded specimens of the earliest issues of the Chersonese.
Lycceius, King of Paeonia (about 359-340 B.c.). A rare silver
tetradrachm ; obv. male portrait (?) head; rev. Heracles and the
lion. Presented by Dr. F. Parkes Weber.
Edones of Macedonia.—Silver octodrachm of King Geta, about
500 B.c. Obv. Herdsman leading two oxen. ev. The king’s name.
The best preserved specimen extant of a very rare coin.
Thebes.—Nilver stater of the sixth century B.c. Type: Boeotian
shield. The only known specimen of the stater of this period.
Thespiae in Boeotia.—A silver stater of the early fourth century:
obv. Boeotian shield ; rev. head of Aphrodite, with a crescent in
front. Presented by Mrs. Ernest Schuster.
Huboea.—Silver tetradrachm of the sixth century B.c. (some-
times attributed to Olynthus). Type: quadriga to front. The
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only known specimen of this denomination. Together with a
drachm of the same series (type: horseman to front).
Elis.—Two silver staters of the period 400-365 B.c. ; obv. head
of Hera; rev. eagle. On the second, the eagle stands on a ram’s
head. Both are rare varieties. Presented by Henry Van den
Bergh, Esq., and George Humorfopoulos, Hsq., respectively.
Delos.—Two early silver staters, of about 500 B.c. Type:
Lyre, with letter A above. The only two known specimens of
this coinage.
Chersonesus in Crete.—Silver stater of the fourth century B.c. ;
obv. Nymph’s head; rev. Heracles wielding his club. The only
known specimen of the stater of fine style, other issues being by
inferior engravers.
Cyzicus.—Your fine electrum staters of the fifth-fourth centuries,
with the types of a lion breaking a sword, a lioness, an eagle, and
the head of Perseus.
Lampsacus in Mysia.—Five gold staters of the fourth century,
with the types of Victory sacrificing a ram, head of Hera, head of
Dionysus, head of Hecate, and head of a nymph. The first two are
unique, and all five are among the most precious of Greek coins.
Smyrna.—A unique stater (obv. head of Apollo, rev. lyre),
proving that the city, which was hitherto supposed to have lain
in ruins from 585 B.c. to the Hellenistic period, was restored about
400 B.c., the date of the coin.
Ciidus in Caria.—A silver tetradrachm of the early third cen-
tury B.C.; obv. head of Aphrodite ; rev. forepart of a lion, with
the magistrate’s name Telesiphron. The finest known tetradrachm
of the period. Presented by the National Art Collections Fund.
Barca in Cyrenaica.—A silver tetradrachm of the fourth century
B.C. ; obv. Silphium plant; rev. head of Zeus Ammon. Presented
by Mrs. Ernest Schuster.
Other Greek coins acquired during the year :—
A rare silver fourth-century stater of Velia in 8. Italy ; obv.
head of Athena, with hippocamp on helmet; rev. lion prowling :
symbol, trident. Presented by Stanley Robinson, Esq.
A fine didrachm of Thurium in S. Italy of the end of the fifth
century, having the artist’s initial A on the haunch of the bull which
forms the reverse type.
A rare fifth century silver tetradrachm of Messana in Sicily,
with the sequence letter p on the reverse.
An electrum 1/3 stater of the Milesian Standard, of the 7th
cent. B.c., found at Calymnos. Presented by Prof. J. L. Myres.
34 silver coins of Sinope, of the end of the fifth and beginning
of the fourth century B.c., from a find.
A rare fourth century silver stater of Aspendus in Pamphylia,
with the usual types of a slinger and a pairof wrestlers, and the
additional inscription in the Pamphylian alphabet : Menetys Elypsa.
An unpublished silver fifth century half-drachm of Cyrene with
the types of a swan’s head and a Gorgon’s mask.
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2. Roman and Byzantine Series.
An unpublished denarius of the period of the Civil Wars, a.p.
68: obv. BONI EVENTVS Bust r.; rev. VIRTVS Virtus
standing 1.
A rare denarius of Vitellius with rev. L VITELLIVS COS
III CENSOR. Vitellius the Elder seated L.
A sestertius of Marcus Aurelius, of exceptional size and weight
and fine style; rev. CONCORD AVGVSTOR TR P XVI COS
IIIS © Marcus Aurelius and L. Verus clasping hands.
An unpublished aureus of Septimius Severus with rev. LEG
VIII AVG TRP COS; Hagle between Standards. (Hitherto the
only legion certainly known to be represented in gold was the LEG
XITIIT MARTIALIS VICTRIX.) .
A rare denarius of Septimius Severus with rev. VOTA
SVSCEPTA XX Septimius and Caracalla sacrificing at an altar :
behind them a flute-player. q
A rare solidus of Theodosius II with rev. FELICITER
NVBTIIS Marriage group, commemorating the marriage of Val-
entinian IIT and Eudoxia.
A fine solidus of the Empress Galla Placidia, of the Mint of
Ravenna; rev. SALVS REIPVBLICAE. Victory seated r.
Presented by the late Rev. E. S. Dewick
3. British and Colonial Series.
The collection of early British and other Celtic coins, formed by
Sir John Evans has long been famous. It was offered to the nation
by his son, Sir Arthur Evans, without conditions, but with the
suggestion that any duplicates not required should be handed over
to the Ashmolean Museum, and any still remaining duplicates
exchanged for other coins required by the British Museum. The
coins which have accordingly been retained by the Museum are
1453 in number (468 gold, 571 silver and 414 bronze). Some idea ~
of the extent to which the Museum Collection has been enriched
may be gathered from the fact that the series of Cunobelinus
(Cymbeline) has been increased from 20 gold, 12 silver and 28
bronze to 50 gold, 24 silver and 91 bronze. The scientific value of
the collection consists not merely in the rarities in which it abounds,
but in the care with which the provenance of the coins (often the
only guide to their attribution) has been recorded.
The British series of a later date, from the Commonwealth
onwards, has also been greatly improved, both in quality and
quantity, by Mr. T. H. B. Graham’s gift of his collection of English
silver, copper, bronze and tin (1,462 in number). The collection is
nearly complete for these metals, and, when combined with the
main collection, will leave very few gaps to be filled.
4, Medieval and Modern Series.
Fine specimens of the chaise d’or of Philip VI. and the mouton |
dor of Jean I. of France; the fourteenth century sequin of the
Roman Senate ; the Annunciation ducat of Charles II. d’ Anjou as
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King of Naples (1285-1309) ; portrait coins of Ludovico II.,
Marquis of Saluzzo (1475-1504) and Ferdinand I. of Naples
(1458-94), and a series of gold ducats of the Popes and of various
German mints, and other coins, 597 in all. From the Dewick Bequest.
A number of Mexican Revolutionary Coins, viz., a 5 centavos,
1914, struck at Durango ; a2 centavos, no date, struck at Parral ;
a cast silver peso of Sinaloa ; five silver and eight copper coins of
Oaxaca ; a dollar struck by Calixto at Cuencame ; and a peso of
Taseo, 1915. Presented by Howland Wood, Esq., of New York.
A series of 348 modern coins in various metals of Huropean
states. Presented by Henry Garside, Ksq.
A collection of 117 paper notes issued by German towns during
the War. Presented by Heer M. Frankenhuis.
5. Onental Series.
Two silver coins of the Sassanian king Khusru II. Presented
by L. A. Lawrence, Esq., FSA.
A series of 45 silver coins with Sassanian types struck by the
early Arab conquerors of Persia. Presented by M. J. de Morgan.
A silver coin of an Arab governor of Persia. Presented by Sir
Evelyn Grant Duff’, K.C.M.G.
A very rare gold dinar of the Seljuk Alp Arslan struck at
Baghdad in 461 A.H. Presented by Sir Evelyn Grant Duff,
ROC IMG.
A rare bronze coin of the Othmanli Sulaiman I struck at
Damascus in 968 A.H. Presented by the Hon. W. Lindsay.
Three silver coins of the Sultan of Tarim. Presented by Capt.
W. H. Lee- Warner.
Two silver and 2 bronze coins of the Imam of San’a. Presented
by O. N. Bakewell, Esq.
A gold Meshhed pilgrim’s token and a silver kran of Muzaftar
al-Din, Shah of Persia. Presented by Sir Evelyn Grant Duff,
K.CM.G.
A very rare bronze coin of the Indo-Greek king Archebius ;
another of Kadphises and two silver White Hun coins with Sas-
sanian types. Presented by Lt.-Col. H. E. Dean, LMS.
A unique gold tanka of Shihab al-Din Omar 715 A.H. and a
series of silver tankas of other sultans of Delhi; a very rare gold
_ tanka of Ghiyas Shah of Malwa 862 A.H.; a unique gold muhur
of Akbar, Urdu Zafar Karin 985 A.H.; rare muhurs of Akbar,
Jaunpur 979 and Dehli 972 A.H.: of Shah Jahan, Agra 1047
A.H. and Burhampur 1050 A.H. ; and a series of Moghul rupees,
all from the Thornhill collection.
Seventy Indian coins, gold, silver and bronze of Vijayanagara,
the Moghul Empire, the Western Satraps, and the modern native
states of Baroda, Indore and Kacch. Presented by S. M. Edwardes,
msg. °C .5.1., C.V.0.
A series of 58 coins, including rare silver coins of the Moghul
Empire, and of the kings of Oudh, Indore, Baroda and Garhwal.
Presented by the late Colonel W. F. Badgley.
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Two gold pagodas of Krishna Raja of Mysore. Presented by
the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society.
6. Medals.
A specimen in silver of the medal by Sir W. Goscombe John,
R.A., commemorating the investiture of H.R.H. the Prince of
Wales at Carnarvon in 1914. Presented by Her Majesty the Queen.
Three very rare cast bronze Italian Renaissance medals, viz. the
Sultan Mohammad II, by Bertoldo di Giovanni (about 1481), a
very fine specimen of the artist’s only signed medal ; Clemente and
Giuliano della Rovere, by Giovanni Candida (between 1493 and
1497) ; and Cornelia Siciliana, by Pastorino (about 1540-50).
Presented by Henry Van den Bergh, Esq., through the National Art
Collections Fund.
Hight lead Italian Renaissance medals, seven by Pastorino and
one by Domenico Poggini. Presented by Sir Hercules Read, PSA,
A rare bronze medal of the Genoese Admiral, Giovan Andrea
Doria, 1599.
A rare gold medal of the death of Gustavus Adolphus, 1632.
Four bronze castings of medals by Sir Edward Poynter, and an
electrotype of his Cambridge Prince Consort Prize Medal. Pre-
sented by the Executors of the late Sir Edward Poynter.
Original model of the medal by Mr. Edmund Dulac, represent-
ing the return of the German Fury ‘“‘nach Hause,” in parody of the
German medal ‘‘ nach Paris, 1914.” Presented by the artist.
Bronze medallion of the landing on V Beach from the ‘ River
Clyde,” by E. Carter Preston and G. H. Tyson Smith. Presented
anonymously.
Silver medal of the Peace, by H. Carter Preston. Presented by
the United Grand Lodge of England.
A collection of 347 German medals relating to the Great War,
‘including a number by L. Gies. Presented by Heer M. Frankenhuis.
Bronze medal struck in anticipation of the expected entry of the
German troops into Paris in 1914. Presented by Captain Amundsen.
Bronze medal of Cardinal Mercier, by J. Jourdain. Presented
by M. Fernand Crooy.
Bronze medal of the dedication of the Joan of Are Park on 6th
January, 1919. This medal was brought to England by R 34.
Presented by the Joan of Are Statue Committee.
Bronze medal of the trans-Atlantic flight of N.C.4. Presented ~
by Glenn H. Curtiss, Esq.
V.—Students and Visitors.
The number of visits made to the Department of Coins and
Medals during the year 1919 was 2,424. The average for the last
ten years before the closing of the Exhibition was 3,854. The
Department was in working order by Ist January, 1919, but in
July the Exhibition was dismantled with a view to fitting the new
Exhibition Room and has since remained closed.
G. F. Hill.
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British Museum (Natura History).
STATEMENT of Progress made in the ARRANGEMENT and
Description of the ConLiecrions, and Account of OBsEcts
added to them, inthe year 1919.
GENERAL PROGRESS.
Visitors, &c.
The total number of visitors to the Natural History Museum
during 1919 was 455,736, as compared with 422,805 in 1918.
This is the largest total since 1913, the year before the war, when
the number was 486,320. The attendance on Sunday afternoons
was 56,673, as against 46,109 in the previous year. The average
daily attendance for all open days was 1,255; for week-days,
1,286 ; and for Sunday afternoons, 1,090.
The number of persons who attended the demonstrations of the
Official Guide during the year was 12,236. His services were
placed at the disposal of the officers and men of the Indian Con-
tingent attending the Peace Celebrations, many parties being
conducted by him on special tours round the Museum. Parties from
the R.A.F. Armament School, Uxbridge, from the United States
troops in London at that time, and from various Welfare Associations,
Military Hospitals, &e., also availed themselves of his guidance on
special tours.
All the exhibition galleries have been re-opened to the public
daily, on week-days ; but, owing to the increased cost for constables
for warding them, the Botanical Gallery and some of the back
galleries closed during the war have not been re-opened on Sundays.
The exhibition cases of British Nesting Birds and British
Mammals have been restored to their proper positions in the
Bird Gallery and Western Pavilion, and the collection of shells
has been re-arranged in the Shell Gallery.
Representation of the Musewm on Committees, ke.
Dr. G. T. Prior, F.R.S., has been nominated to represent the
Museum on the Chemical Industries Committee and the Mis-
cellaneous Committee of the Imperial Mineral Resources Bureau.
Dr. F. A. Bather, F.R.S., Assistant Keeper of Geology, has
been appointed to serve on a special Committee of the Museums
Association to consider a proposal of the Ministry of Reconstruction
to transfer the control of municipal Museums to the local education
authority.
Mr. M. A. C. Hinton was delegated by the Trustees to represent
the Museum at the 30th Congress of the Royal Sanitary Institute,
held at Newcastle-upon-Tyne in July.
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Swiney Lectures.
Dr. J. D. Falconer, Swiney Lecturer for 1919, gave a course of
lectures in the Lecture Theatre of the Imperial College of Science
on ‘“* The Geology and Mineral Resources of the British Possessions
in Africa.” The total attendance for the course was 1,290, or, on
an average, 108 persons per lecture.
The Trustees have accepted Dr. Falconer’s suggestion to take
‘“‘The Modelling of the Earth’s Crust” as the subject of his next
course of lectures under this foundation to be given in November
and December, 1920.
Marine Boring Animals.
An exhibit of Marine Boring Animals has been placed in the
Central Hall, and a Guide, forming No. 10 of the Economic Series,
has been prepared to explain it.
Godman Memorial.
A National Committee has been formed to establish a memorial
to the late Mr. F. D. Godman, F.R.S., a Trustee of the British
Museum and a most generous benefactor of the Zoological and
Entomological Departments, who enriched during his lifetime the
Entomological collections by many thousands of specimens. The
Committee propose to place in the Museum a bronze medallion
portrait of Mr. Godman and his coadjutor in his scientific work, the
late Mr. Osbert Salvin, F.R.S.
In memory of her husband, Dame Alice Godman, D.B.H., has
endowed a Trust with a sum of £5,000 to form a Godman Explora-
tion Fund, with the object of providing means for collecting
specimens for the Natural History Museum by way of exploration.
Antarctic Whales.
Further papers have been received from the Colonial Office, the
Governor of the Falkland Islands, and the High Commissioners for
Australia, New Zealand, and the Union of South Africa on the
subject of Whaling operations in South Georgia, the South
Shetlands, and other southern localities.
A detailed report on southern whaling, including analyses
of the statistics received, has been prepared by Dr. Harmer, and
sent in full to the Colonial Office, attention being specially called to
the necessity for the immediate protection of the Humpback and
probably of the Right Whale. Whaling operations in sub-Antarctic
waters commenced at the end of 1904, the Humpback constituting
over 90 per cent. of the total catch during the early days of the
industry. This species of whale has now become, after no more
than fifteen years, an unimportant constituent, and perhaps a
vanishing quantity, the great majority of the whales at present
being captured belonging to two other species, the Fin Whale and
the Blue Whale. Although these are still obtained in large numbers,
there are already signs which may indicate the probability of a
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serious falling off in their numbers in the near future ; and the
security of the whales and of the whaling industry gives rise to
much anxiety. The oil obtainable from whales was shown to be a
national asset of vital importance during the War, and the necessity
of avoiding over-production leading to the extermination of the
whales is admitted by all those who know the facts. The urgency
of the question has been recognised by the Trustees, who have made
representations to the Colonial Office on the importance of taking
action, including international action if necessary, in order to prevent
an undue depletion of the stock of whales.
The Falkland Islands Committee, on which the Museum was
represented by the Director of the Natural History Departments,
has completed its labours, and has prepared a Report, which was
signed by all its members. This report contains the recommendation
that an expedition should be equipped and maintained for a period of
years, for the purpose of investigating whaling and other problems
in southern waters, with the view of obtaining scientific evidence on
which protective measures could be based. This recommendation
has received the full support of the Trustees.
Sealing in the Falkland Islands.
A report was received through the Governor of the Falkland
Islands and the Colonial Office on the sealing operations in that
Dependency for the season ending 30th September, 1918, the
results showing a slight decrease in the total catch on that for the
preceding year. The Colonial Office has been asked to enzourage
the delivery of satisfactory annual reports, and to be on the look-out
for oversealing—special emphasis being laid on the importance of
maintaining a Seal Reserve for the permanent protection of these
animals.
Reindeer in South Georgia.
Further information has been received with regard to the
progress of the experiment of the acclimatization of reindeer in
South Georgia. A herd of 70 animals was observed in the early
part of 1919, mostly full-grown and in excellent condition. This
news is specially interesting in view of a serious accident which
took place in August, 1918, when 17 reindeer were lost by falling
over a precipice.
With regard to the destructive effect said to be produced by
sheep on the native “tussac”’ grass, it has been found that when
sheep have been grazing the grass dies off for about three years,
and is then capable of re-establishing itself only from seed. The
grass will not spring up again from the roots even when left to
itself. This result is not produced by the grazing of reindeer or
goats,
Protection of Animals.
Further papers (ordinances, regulations, &c.) with reference to
the protection of animals in the Dominions and various British
Colonies and Dependencies have been received from the Colonial
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Office. The papers cover a wide range, dealing with Australia,
Nigeria, Quebec, Yukon Territory, New Brunswick, and British
Honduras. The Acts passed seem to indicate the existence of a
real desire to protect such species as are not economically injurious,
and the Trustees have informed the Colonial Office that they view
with interest and sympathy the efforts made for the preservation of
the native fauna in the Dominions and Colonies.
Other Investigations.
At the request of the Army Medical Department, Mr. C. T.
Regan, F.R.S., Assistant Keeper of Zoology, visited the Isle of
Sheppey in order to inspect the marshes, and gave advice with regard
to the introduction of fishes which would eat mosquito larvee.
Mr. Regan acted as Secretary to the Fisheries Committee of the
British Science Guild, and prepared a memorandum on scientific
work in relation to fisheries. This was adopted by the Guild and
sent by them to the Government Departments concerned.
An inquiry was received from the Director of Army Contracts,
Ministry of Munitions, as to the nature and origin of beetles and
maggots found in large quantities in condemned bacon received in
Egypt from Australia. A reply was sent to the effect that the
beetles in question comprised two species which occurred in both
countries, and were in fact cosmopolitan in their distribution; and
that therefore it was not possible to say where the bacon had become
infested.
Advice has been asked by a firm of engineers, and given, in
connection with trouble caused by the growth of mussels on the inner
surface of pipes carrying sea-water. The matter was immediately
concerned with the erection of a large electricity-supply power-
house near Edinburgh.
An inquiry from the Commonwealth of Australia as to the kinds of
fish which could be properly described as ‘‘ Sardines” without infring-
ing the Merchandise Marks Act having been referred to the Museum
by the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, the Board were informed
that in the opinion of the Museum, in this country the term Sardine is
restricted to Sardina pilchardus, of the Atlantic and Mediterranean,
a fish known as the Sardine in its immature condition and ag the
Pilchard when adult.
Bequests.
A pair of splendid Buffalo horns, said to be of record length,
have been bequeathed to the Museum by the late Mr. Arthur
Forbes, C.S.I., subject to the condition that the horns might re-
main in the custody of his son, Barré Cassels Forbes, during his
life-time.
A collection of ane of Algae, comprising 1,796 sheets,
representing not only the British flora but many foreign species, has
been bequeathed to the Museum by the late Prof. G. S. West, of
Birmingham University. :
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The mounted specimens received during the year from the
Trustees of the Rowland Ward Bequest include examples of a fine
specimen of the Lado race of the White Rhinoceros, a Tibetan
Argali from Ladak, and a Reedbuck from N.E. Rhodesia.
Presents.
Lt.-Colonel G. P. Cosens has generously placed a sum of money
at the disposal of the Museum for continuing the work of collecting
in ex-German East Africa (now Tanganyika Territory) commenced
in the previous year out of funds provided by Lord Swaythling.
The total number of presents received during the year by the
several departments of the Museum was 1,712. Many of these
comprised large numbers of individual specimens.
The gifts of special interest or value were unusually numerous
and important. The most noteworthy was the great collection of
big game trophies of the late Captain I’. C. Selous, D.S.O., the
famous African hunter, explorer and naturalist, presented by his
widow, Mrs. Selous.
This collection consists of 550 specimens of a very high average
standard of size and perfection. Prominent among the specimens
are the following mounted heads :—
6 Moose, 10 Wapiti, 18 Caribou, 3 Giraffes, 8 Kudu, 6
Buffaloes, 11 Hland, 13 Waterbuck, 30 Hartebeest, 10
Tiang, 4 Bontebok, 6 Zebra, 7 Gerenuk, 18 Impala, 20
Gemsbuck, 3 Situtunga, 4 Lesser Kudu, 22 Dik-diks, 16
Sable Antelope, 10 Roan Antelope, and 18 Grant’s Gazelle.
The collection also contains some fine skulls and horns of the
Black and White Rhinoceros, a pair of large Elephant tusks, and
mounted specimens of the following :—
an African Lion and Leopard, a Sable Antelope, a Roan
Antelope, a Serval Cat, 19 Dik-diks, and 2 Colobus
Monkeys.
In addition there is a fine series of 18 Lion skins and a repre-
sentative collection of mounted heads of the smaller African
Antelopes, such as Duikers, Oribis, Reedbucks and Bushbucks.
A catalogue of the sporting trophies will be prepared for publi-
cation, and the specimens will be kept together as a single collection
for a period of twenty years.
Mrs. Selous’ generous gift to the nation also included the very
fine collection of Birds’ eggs formed by her husband, every clutch
in which was collected by himself and bears his labels in his own
handwriting.
By Deed of Gift Mr. E. Dukinfield Jones has made over to the
Museum his-valuable collection of Brazilian Lepidoptera, consisting
of nearly 20,000 specimens of which 300 are types, contained in
3 cabinets and 239 boxes, the only conditions imposed being that
the collection be kept intact during his life-time and that he be per-
mitted to have access to it for purposes of study, &c.
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Among the other gifts of special importance may be mentioned
those from :—
Mr. J. C. Dollman—tThe collections of insects made by his
son, the late Hereward C. Dollman. The two cabinets con-
taining the collection of Lepidoptera from North-Western
Rhodesia will be kept separate'as a whole for a period of
fifteen years.
The Governor of the Falkland Islands—A zoological collection,
including parts of whales and a Weddell’s Seal, made by
Mr. A. G. Bennett at Deception Island, South Shetlands.
Mrs. Brewitt-Iaylor—A collection of butterflies of the genus
Parnassius formed by her husband, the late Major R.
Brewitt-Taylor.
Mrs. May F. Ogilvie—The valuable collection of British
Birds, consisting of 1,789 skins, made by her husband,
the late I’. M. Ogilvie, formerly surgeon at the Oxford
Hye Hospital.
M. Fernand Lataste—A large and valuable collection of
mammals, reptiles, and batrachians, forming the basis of
the descriptive work produced by him from 1875 to 1890.
Mr. Gregory M. Mathews—A collection of 318 birds from
Norfolk and Lord Howe Islands.
Mr. Robert P. Page—A fine mounted specimen of a King
Salmon, weighing 62 lbs., caught by him by rod and line
in the Campbell River, British Columbia.
Mr. H. C. Robinson and Mr. ©. Boden Kloss—An important
series of specimens representing the vertebrate fauna of the
Oriental region, collected in South Annam and Cochin China.
Mrs. E. 8. Gregory—Her herbarium of British plants.
Mr. F. ©. Adams—A fine collection of British Diptera,
together with the two mahogany cabinets in which the
specimens are contained. l
Major 8. 8. Flower—The skull and horns of a Black-faced
Highland Ram, bred on the Glencasley Hstate, Suther-
land ; also a number of manuscripts, scientific papers, &c.,
of his father, the late Sir William Flower, K.C.B.
Addo Bush Elephants.
The Trustees are in communication with the Government of the
Union of South Africa with a view to obtaining for the Museum a
male and female specimen (hide and skeleton) from the herd of
Elephants in the Addo Bush, near Port Hlizabeth, almost the last
survivors of the South African Elephant, the extermination of which
for economic reasons has been decided on by the Cape Provincial
Council.
Expeditions.
The following collecting expeditions, for the benefit of the
Museum, were arranged :—
(a) Capt. Guy Shortridge—in Rhodesia.
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(b) Mr. W. J. Potter—a zoological exploration of ex-German
New Guinea and New Britain.
(c) Mr. Willoughby P. Lowe—a zoological exploration of
the West Coast of Africa.
(d) Mr. H. C. Robinson, Director of the Federated Malay
States Museums—assistance in a collecting expedition to
the mountains of North Luzon and Mindoro, Philippine
Islands.
Purchases.
The grant-in-aid for Purchases has been restored to the pre-war
amount, namely, 6,500.
The principal purchases made during the year include the skull
and tusks of an African male elephant shot by Major ©. Christy in
the Belgian Congo ; seven complete skeletons of gorillas ; 158 bird-
skins from the Canary Islands and Cape Verde Archipelago
(Bannerman collection) ; a collection of isopod crustaceans, including
many type specimens ; an exceptionally fine specimen of a large
vase-shaped sponge, from Greece ; types of marine, land and fresh-
water mollusca; 3,532 British specimens of minute parasitic
Hymenoptera of the family Mymaride, collected by the late C. O.
Waterhouse, I.8.0. ; 5,000 specimens of Rhynchota and Coleoptera,
including 250 types, being the ninth instalment of the Distant
collection of insects ; a collection of 93 microscope-slides taken from
successive levels in the shallow seam of coal in Staffordshire, with
67 mounted micro-photographs of the same; fossil corals and »
brachiopods from the carboniferous limestone of Britain and
Belgium collected by the late Dr. Arthur Vaughan ; vertebrate
fossils from the collection of the late W. E. Balston ; various minerals,
including specimens of copper and uranium ores from the Congo ;
scheelite (in large crystals) from Arizona ; slices of a meteoric iron
found in 1894 at Sams Valley, Jackson Co., Oregon, U.S.A.; a
meteoric stone, weighing 2,797 grams, found near Plainview, Hale
Co., Texas, in 1913 ; and a number of botanical specimens, including
ferns from New Zealand and the South Sea Islands, and 1,094
flowering plants and ferns from Central Paraguay.
Lantern Slides.
Series of lantern-slides illustrating protective coloration and
economic zoology have been acquired, the negatives being the
property of the Trustees. These are frequently lent to approved
persons for lecture purposes.
Hachanges and Gifts of Duplicates.
Exchanges and gifts of duplicate specimens have been made
with various institutions and persons.
Permission has been given to Lord William Percy to store
temporarily in the Museum, at his own risk, nine cabinets of his
collection of ducks.
84 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
Publications.
The following new works on natural history have been published
during the year :—
British Antarctic (‘Terra Nova’) Expedition, 1910.
Natural History Report. Zoology. Vol. v., No. 2.
Coelenterata, Pt. IJ. Madreporaria. (a) On Favia
Conferta, Verrill, with notes on other Atlantic species of
Favia. By G. Matthai, ma. Pp. 69—96: 2 text-
figures, 4 plates. 4to. 9s.
Report on Cetacea stranded on the British coasts, No. 6.
Cetacea stranded during 1918. By S. F. Harmer, sc.p.,
F.R.S. Pp. 24: 2 text-figures and 1 map. Ato. 3s. 6d.
Studies on Acari. No. 1. The Genus Demodex, Owen.
By 8. Hirst. Pp. (vi.) 44; 13 plates, 4 text-figures.
Roy. 8vo. 10s.
Economic Series :—
No. 9.—Birds beneficial to Agriculture. By F. W.
Frohawk. Pp. vi., 47: 22 plates. 8vo. 2s.
No. 10.—Marine Boring Animals injurious to submerged
structures. By W. T. Calman, p.sc. Pp. 34: 21
text-figures. 8vo. Is.
New editions have been issued of the following Guide-books and
pamphlets :—
Guide to the Exhibited Series of Insects. Third edition.
Pp. v., 65: 62 text and full-page illustrations. 8vo. 2s.
Guide to the Gallery of Birds. Pt. II]. Nesting series of
British Birds. Third Edition. Pp. 62: 4 plates. Ato.
is:
Guide to the British Mycetozoa. Fourth edition. Pp. 62:
52 text-figures. 8vo. Is.
Special Guide No. 7.—Guide to the Specimens and En-
larged Models of Insects and Ticks . . . illustrating their
importance in the spread of Disease. Second edition.
Pp. 46: 14 text-figures. 8vo. Is.
Instructions for Collectors :—
No. 1.—Mammals. fifth edition. Pp. 8: 4 text-figures.
8vo. 6d.
No. 4.—Insects. Sixth edition. Pp. 12: Text illust.
8vo. 6d.
No. 5.—Diptera (Two-winged Flies). Fourth edition.
Pp. 16: Textillust. 8vo. 6d.
No. 6.—Mosquitoes (Culicide). Fourth edition. Pp.
8: 1 plate. Svo. bd:
The undermentioned works are in preparation :—
“Terra Nova” Antarctic Report. Further sections, inclu-
ding Birds, by Percy R. Lowe, O.B.H.; Ostracoda, by
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R. W. D. Burney ; Pteropoda, by Miss A. L. Massy ;
Anatomy of Pelecypoda, by R. H. Burne ; Amphineura
and Heteropoda, by T. J. Hivans ; Larvee of Echinoderma,
by Prof. E. W. MacBride, F.r.s. ; Sponges, Antarctic, by
R. Kirkpatrick, Non-Antarctic, by Prof. A. Dendy.
Monograph of Lacertide, by G. A. Boulenger, F.R.S.
Catalogue of Moths, Supplement, Vol. ii., by Sir G. FP:
Hampson, Bart.
Handbook of British Culicidee (Mosquitoes), by W. D.
Lang, Sc.D.
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Demonstrations.
With the sanction of the Trustees, a series of five demonstrations
on the subject of Vertebrate Animals was given at the Museum by
Mr. W. S. Rowntree, B.sc., F.L.S., on Saturday afternoons, fort-
nightly, during the Lent term, under arrangerhents made by the
University of London Extension Board.
GENERAL LIBRARY.
The additions to the General Library during the year have
been :—
By purchase - 92 volumes.
By transference
from other
Departments - 2 volumes. .
By donation - 431 volumes, 17 maps, and 23 photographs.
Total - - §25 7 ae
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All the volumes and maps have been catalogued, press-marked
and put in their places, while 310 volumes have been bound in 194,
and 2 have been repaired.
The extent of the collection on the 31st of December, 1919, was
47,758 volumes, 5,946 maps, and 1,105 photographs (not including
those in the Owen collection of drawings, &c.).
The accessions to the Departmental Libraries have also been
catalogued as they came in, and duplicate transcripts of the titles
have been returned with the books.
Altogether 1,943 title-slips have been written, 138 re-written,
and 2,381 revised (independently of those prepared for printing).
There are now, on a rough estimate, 105,127 volumes (exclusive
of continuations and minor separata) and 6,289 maps in the whole
building.
The number of visits paid to the General Library during the
year 1919 by Students and others (irrespective of the Staff and
persons to whom the use of a key is granted) was 1,418.
Donations have been received from a great number of Museums,
Academies, and other corporate bodies, as well as from personal
donors.
86 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
The printing of the Supplement to the Library Catalogue has
been continued, title-slips to the end of “FYS” have now been
set up in type and printed off as far as “ FOUR,” and the first
three sheets of the ‘‘ Addenda and Corrigenda” have been also
printed off. *
INDEX OF THE GENERA AND SPECIES oF ANIMALS.
During the past three years considerable progress has been
made en this Index, under Mr. C. Davies Sherborn’s charge, and
some 90,000 references have been added to the manuscript. The
letter “'T’” of authors has now been reached. The manuscript has
been continuously and extensively consulted by the staff and by
students, whilst: many enquiries have been answered by Mr. Sherborn
in correspondence, which has been greatly increased owing to the
many practical uses to which natural science is now applied,
necessitating accurate nomenclature of the animals referred to.
Further’ publication by Mr. Sherborn of bibliographic data has
not been necessary during the past year ; but a large draught has
been made upon his manuscript by Mr. Gregory Mathews and
Mr. Tom Iredale for their ‘“‘ Birds of Australia” and “ Mollusea of
Australia.”
InpEX Musrtum AND MorPHOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS.
From the Summer of 1917 to the Spring of 1919, the Index
Museum suffered an entire depletion of its staff, owing to the
exigencies of Military Service or service in connection with the
war. During this time, however, two table-cases containing exhibits
and diagrams dealing with the subject of Food Hconomy, and
showing the nutritive values of foods derived from Plants and
Animals, respectively, were placed in the Central Hall. The work
entailed in connection with these two cases was done by the Museum
Lecturer and Guide, Mr. J. H. Leonard. At this time also, the
Army Biscuit Enquiry case—the result of research work by Mr. J.
H. Durrant (Entomological Department) and Col. W. O. Beveridge,
R.A.M.C.—was re-exhibited at the special request of the War Office.
February, 1919, saw the return of one member of the Index
Museum staff, and ‘immediate steps were taken to inspect all the
spirit preparations in the Bays of the Central Hall that might have
suffered evaporation or damage during the five years of war. Of
these, 200 jars containing specimens and dissections were re-spirited,
and, in several cases, repairs and re-sealings were also carried out.
A valuable collection of specimens showing several species of the
Pterobranch Cephalodiscus, obtained by the “Terra Nova” Antarctic
Expedition, was also transferred for more careful preservation from
the original storage-jars to cylindrical museum-jars, and was re-
spirited. Attention was then given to the Mammalian Dentition
case in Bay I of the Hall, and three small skulls of Insectivores,
needed to complete the series, were prepared, and placed on
exhibition.
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Of the progress of Index Museum work for the current year
(1919), the following is a summary :—A model of the Human Body
Louse (Pediculus humanus), enlarged 100 diameters, has been placed
on exhibition in the Pathogenic Insect case in the Central Hall.
This model is of special interest, as the late war has shown the
Louse to be the disseminating agent of Trench Fever, as well as of
Typhus, and of Kuropean Relapsing ever. It is intended to add
to the case other enlarged models of the adult mouth-parts, and of
the eggs and larva respectively.
A general dissection of a young Porpoise (Phoccna phocena),
showing the skeleton and viscera in situ, also the relationship of the
urinogenital organs to the vestigial pelvic bones, has been made for
Bay Ul of the Index Museum ; and an additional exhibit has been added
to the Mimiery Case in the form of the ego-cocoons of a Scale Insect
(Naiacoccus serpentinus), which closely resemble the droppings of
birds.
Much time and thought has been given to the completion of
details for an index case dealing with the elements of structure in
Vertebrates generally, which is ‘intended to form one of four table-
cases as an introductory series to Animals, Plants, and Rocks.
All labels for this case are now in the printer’s hands, and
certain additional preparations and drawings have been made ; so
that it is hoped that very shortly the final fitting up can be done,
and the case be duly exhibited in the Central Hea
The necessary work of re-camphoring all cases in charge of the
Index Museum has been undertaken.
Sidney F’. Harmer,
Director.
British Museum (Natural Hipscony)
tApril, 1920.
88 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
DEPARTMENT OF Zoouoecy.
I.—Arrangement and Conservation.
MAMMALIA.
Mammal Galleries.
No special alterations in the arrangement of the Mammal
Galleries have been made during the year; and work has been
confined in the main.to the installation of new specimens, and the
rewriting and printing of such labels as required modification in
order to bring them up to date.
The additions to the exhibited series in the Mammal Galleries
and Corridors include many specimens presented by the Rowland
Ward Trustees, among them :—In the Primates: an Indian meetin
Monkey (Pithecus entellus), a Guereza (Colobus abyssinicus),
Miritiba Howling Monkey (Alouatta ululata), a Capuchin (Cebus
apella), a Lion Marmoset (Leontocebus rosalia), a Sifaka (Propithecus
deckem), and a small-toothed Lemur (Lepidolemur microdon). In
the Chiroptera: three interesting additions, a Philippine Fruit Bat
(Acerodon jubatus), an East Australian Fruit Bat (Pteropus polvoce-
phalus), and a Javelin Vampire Bat (Phyllostoma hastatum). In
the Carnivora: a Bay Lynx (Felis [| Lyna| rv fa), a Fishing Cat
(Felis viverrina), a Striped Hyzena (Hyena striata schillingsi), a Kit
Fox (Vulpes velov), a Chinese Fox (Vulpes hoole), an adult and
young Venezuelan Fox (Cerdocyon aquilus), a Crab-eating Raccoon
(Procyon cancrivora), a Stoat (Mustela erminea stabilis), an Hast
Himalayan Paguma (Paguma grayi), a Nepal Manoori (Paradoxurus
strictus), a Panama Kinkajou (Potos flavus megalotus), a Coati
(Nasua narica), a Marsh Mungoose (Mungos paludinosus), and an
adult and young specimen of the Merida Skunk (Conepatus
mapurito). In the Rodentia: a Russian Dormouse (//yromys
nitedula), two British Bank Voles (Hvotomys glareolus britannicus),
a Field Vole (Microtus agrestis), a Tree Porcupine (Coendou
pruinosus), and a group of Harvest Mice (Mdicromys minutus), adult,
young, and nest. In the Ungulaca : a Northern White Rhinoceros
(Rhinoceros simus cottoni) from the Lado Enclave, a very important
addition ; also a fine specimen of Hodgson’s Argali (Ovis ammon
hodgsoni), a Merida Brocket (Mazama bricenit), and a Reed Buck
(Cervicapra arundinumy. In the Hdentata: a Two-toed Sloth
(Choloepus didactylus), and a Three-toed Sloth (Bradypus tridactylus).
In the Marsupialia and Monotremata: two specimens of Ouscus
(Phalanger maculatus), and a Spiny Anteater (Echidna aculeata).
Other additions to the Mammal Galleries include the mounted
heads of two Red Deer (Cervus elaphus scoticus) from New Zealand,
presented by Miss A. Blewitt ; a newly born calf of the European
Bison (Los bonasus), presented by the Zoological Society of London;
and two skulls of the Pamir Argali (Ovis ammon poli) belonging to
the collection of the late Mr. A. O. Hume, ¢.B., presented by Mrs.
Ross Scott.
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The young Malay Elephant has been removed temporarily from
the Central Hall, where it was unprotected from dust, to one of the
Giraffe cases in the Eastern Corridor on the first floor.
Whale Room.—To the series of Cetacean casts have been added
paddles of the North Atlantic Right Whale (Balaena glacialis) and
of a Killer Whale (Orcinus orca), showing the paddles both before
and after dissection; and the cast of a White-sided Dolphin
(Lagenorhynchus acutus). A model of Guvier’s Beaked Whale
(Ziphius cavirostris) was presented by Mr. A. H. Bishop.
Study Series —During the earlier months of the year prepara-
tions were made for the return of the part of the collection which
had been carried to Exeter for safety during the war. The removal
from Exeter to London took place in April. Much material stored
temporarily in special places of safety within the Museum was also
brought out and unpacked.
The disturbances due to the war have necessitated re-arrangement
of the whole collection. This work was proceeded with continuously
throughout the months April to December, and complete order has
now been restored ‘in all groups other than the Marsupials.
It is desirable to save ‘‘type” specimens from all unnecessary
wear and tear. Therefore, during the work of re-arrangement,
all the types of the smaller species have been extracted from the
general collection and they have been placed in certain cabinets
now reserved exclusively for the accommodation of types. |
The numerous accessions received during the year have been
punctually dealt with; and the usual work of skull preparation,
re-making of skins (when necessary), labelling, registering, and
incorporating in the collection has been performed.
The thanks of the Trustees are due to the large number of
voluntary workers whose combined efforts have rendered possible
the performance of so much work by this section of the department
during the past year. Among these volunteers may be mentioned
Mr. R. C. Wroughton, Mr. T. B. Fry, Miss W. M. Davidson, Major
R. EH. Cheesman, Captain Kershaw, Mr. Hugh Smith, Mr. Larkin, the
Hon. Ivor Montague, Miss C. Janson, Miss Owen, and Miss Stevens.
In addition to his work in connexion with the Mammal Survey
of India by the Bombay Natural History Society, Mr. Wroughton,
with the assistance of Mr. Fry and Miss Davidson, has been
engaged upon the preparation of a list of the types in the collection.
Major Cheesman has given invaluable help in working out the large
collections received from Persia and Mesopotamia. Capt. Kershaw
and the Hon. Ivor Montague have given much assistance in con-
nexion with African mammals.
A number of casts of Cetacean heads, paddles and valves of
the spiracle have been made, The arrangement of the skeletons
has been rendered difficult by the want of sufficient cabinet-
accommodation.
Abnormalities and hybrids.—To this series have been added the
mounted head of a cross between a male Wapiti (Cervus canadensis)
90 ACCOUNTS, ELC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
and a female Red Deer (Cervus elaphus scoticus) ; and two pairs
of cast antlers belonging to the same animal, born at Craig Lodge,
Dalmally, Scotland, all presented by Walter ene Hsq.
AVES.
The cabinets containing the collections of birds and eggs have
now been moved from the Bird Gallery, where they had been placed
for greater safety during the war. They have been reinstated in
the Bird Room, and the area of the Nesting Series have been
re-transterred from the Shell Gallery to the Bird Gallery.
The most important addition to the Bird Gallery was a mounted
female of the Northern Ostrich (Struthio camelus) presented by the
Rowland Ward Trustees.
Owing to the greatly increased growth of the collection of bird
skins and the consequent congestion in the cabinets, it has been
found necessary to add a further portion of the Shell Gallery to
the Bird Room. This measure provides space for about forty extra
cabinets, which are now urgently required owing to the excessive
amotnt, of crowding of the specimens. This lack of space is not
only very detrimental to the skins but it renders it impossible to
arrange the collection so as to bring it into line with recent advances
in ornithological work.
During the year the study collection has been consulted by the
following visitors, who have been occupied in systematic work on
various groups :—Mr. H. F. Witherby, Major R. E. Cheesman,
Mr. H. Kirke Swann, Capt. H. Lynes, r.n., Mr. C. Mackworth
Praed, Mr. E. C. Stuart Baker, Mr. G. M. Mathews, Dr. B.
Hartert, Mr. W. L. Sclater, Lord Rothschild, r.z.s., Mr. T. Iredale,
Miss Annie Jackson, Dr. F. M. Chapman of New York, and
Francis Harper of Washington, D.C.
The following artists, engaged in preparing drawings for forth-
coming works, have also made use of the collection :—Mr. G. E.
Lodge, Major H. Jones, Mr. H. Grénvold, and Mr. Roland Green.
DoMESTICATED ANIMALS.
The additions by presentation to the series of Domesticated
Animals include the following :—The skull and horns of a Black-
faced Highland Ram from the Glencasley Estate, Sutherland,
presented ‘by Major S. 8. Flower ; three interesting Domestic Rats,
including a specimen showing the “ Dutch- Headed marking, pre-
sented by H. ©. Brooke, Esq. ; the mounted head of a Bloodhound
Champion ‘ Colonel of Brighton,” presented by the late Commander
J. Haggerston; a plaster cast of the skull of ‘‘ Kilburn Duke,”
Champion Bull Dog, presented by Messrs. Rowland Ward, Ltd. ;
and the head of an inna Fighting Ram (Barwal Breed) pre econ
by the Zoological Society of London.
REPTILIA AND BATRACHIA.
All the accessions have been registered and incorporated, with
the exception of a large and important collection presented by Mons.
F. Lataste.
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PISCES.
In the Spirit Building the bottles of specimens that formerly
covered the table-cases have not been brought back in view of the
fact that they will again have to be removed if the proposed exten-
sion of the iron gallery is carried out; other specimens are now
accumulating on the table-cases, and it is urgently necessary that
some steps be taken to relieve the congestion. The work of
replenishing the collection with spirit has been carried on.
The most notable addition to the Exhibition Gallery is a large
King Salmon (Oncorhynchus quinnat) from British Columbia, pre-
sented by Robert Page, Esq. The taxidermist has been principally
engaged in preparing casts and models from specimens in the spirit
collection.
TUNICATA.
193 bottles of Plankton (including pelagic Tunicata) collected
by the ‘‘ Discovery” and “Terra Nova” Antarctic Expeditions
have been sent to Prof. W. Garstang for determination and report.
PYEROBRANCHIA.
Additional specimens have been exhibited and the whole series,
comprising 12 specimens, has been re-labelled in a uniform manner.
Mouuusca.
The cases of shells which were removed to the Bird Gallery
during the war have been replaced in the Shell Gallery. Owing
to part of the latter having been added to the Bird Room, certain
exhibition cases have been dispensed with and some of the cabinets
have been placed in the Coral Gallery immediately south of the
Shell Gallery. As the systematic arrangement of the series of cases
was thus interfered with, a key to the exhibited collection has been
prepared for the guidance of students.
The study series of several genera has been re-arranged and some
attention paid to the exhibited specimens.
The collection of microscopical preparations has been re-arranged
and a card-index prepared. The examination, registration and
incorporation of accessions received during the war have been
continued and are now practically completed, special attention
having been given to collections from South Georgia, Madagascar, °
Peru and W. Africa. The study of the Opisthobranchiata obtained
by the ‘Terra Nova” Antarctic Expedition has been continued, and
some time has been devoted to the distribution of other parts of the
Molluscan collection formed by that expedition among specialists for
study and report, and to the registration of parts of the collection
already worked out. The anatomy and distribution of British
Hydrobiidae have been studied in connection with the discovery of
parthenogenesis in Paludestrina jenkinsi, and accounts of the
anatomy and habits of the latter have been prepared.
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The deposition of eggs and the care of eggs and young in the
Mollusca have been studied with a view to preparing an exhibit for
the gallery.
Features of the year’s work reflecting post-war conditions have
_been the numerous consultations of the Assistant in charge of the
collection by persons anxious to dispose of conchological collections
and by medical officers engaged in the study of Bilharziosis.
Lieut.-Col. H. H. Godwin-Austen, F.R.S., has continued his
work upon the arrangement of the Blanford and Godwin-Austen
collections ; and the Department is indebted to Mr. J. R. le B.
Tomlin for working out and reporting upon a collection from
Anguilla.
MyriopopA AND ARACHNIDA.
Special attention was again given to the forms of Arachnida
injurious to domesticated animals and to vegetation. The English
species of ‘Red Spiders” (Tetranychus and Paratetranychus) in-
jurious to various plants and trees were collected and determined,
and a paper on the group prepared for publication. The spirit
collection has been almost entirely respirited, and fresh naphthalene
was placed in the drawers containing the dry collection.
YRUSTACEA AND PYCNOGONIDA.
All the accessions received during the year have been in-
corporated, and some progress has been made with the registration
of the Norman collection. A little preliminary work has been done
towards the arrangement of the Budde-Lund collection.
ECHINODERMA.
A great deal of time has been devoted to remounting and
respiriting the exhibited collection of Echinoderms.
Valuable specimens removed from the gallery, for protection
during the war, have been returned.
The Starfish gallery has been repainted, and the brackets
containing the exhibited series of Stalked Crinoids have been
renovated.
Worms.
With the help of Dr. Cognetti de Martiis and Mr. W. A.
Harding, all the Oligochaetes and Leeches received during the year
have been determined and incorporated.
Specimens of the exhibited series of worms have, when
necessary, been remounted.
The case referring to the Miners’ Worm Disease has been
overhauled, and the specimens remounted.
The slide-collection of Cestodes, which is constantly growing,
has been transferred to certain cabinets which formerly contained
part of the Norman collection (Crustacea). This allows room for
additional species to be placed in systematic order as required.
DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY. 93
The crowded condition of the cupboards in the Spirit Building
now makes it practically impossible to deal satisfactorily with the
arrangement of additions to the spirit collections.
POLYZOA.
The exhibited series of Polyzoa has been removed from the
Shell Gallery to the Coral Gallery, and re-arrangement of the
specimens is being carried out.
HyDROZOA.
Several important collections have been labelled, registered, and
incorporated. The bottles of the Norman collection of Hydroida
have been replenished with spirit. Upwards of 600 microscopie
slides of Hydroida have been prepared, to facilitate the examination
of specimens. A scheme has been designed and adopted for the
better preservation of the dried Hydroida. The large accumulations
of unnamed Hydroida have been worked at, and numbers of very
interesting species, which were hitherto not known to be represented
in the collections, have been brought to light.
The sorting and determination of the Hydroida of the British
Antarctic (“Terra Nova’) Expedition, 1910, have been carried on.
PORIFERA.
The acquisition and exhibition of a large and very fine cup-
shaped example of Spongia officinalis, var. lamella, led to the re-
arrangement of the exhibited series of Horny Sponges.
The restoration of type collections, important specimens and
exhibited specimens, which had been removed to places of safety
during the war, was completed at the beginning of the year.
I1.— Duplicates and Exchanges.
(a) Duplicates.
Duplicates have been distributed to museums, scientific institu-
tions, and individuals as follows :—
Miscellaneous. —Incorporated Froebel Educational Institute ;
Dundonald School, Wimbledon.
Mammalia.—Buenos Aires Museum.
Aves.—Oxford' University Museum.
Mollusca.—Oxtord University ca teeli lt Mr. F. B. Jennings ;
Col. A. J. Peile, R.A.
Crustacea.— Prof. C. Chilton.
Coelenterata.—Public Library, Museum, and Art Gallery,
Worthing.
94 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
(b) Exchanges.
Exchanges have been made with the following museums and
individuals :—
Mammalia.—Museo Civico, Genova ; Castle Museum, Norwich ;
Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris ; Congo Museum, Tervueren ;
Frere Apollinaris-Maria, Bogota.
Aves.—Major A. Brooks; Lord William Percy; Dr. L. C.
Sanford.
Reptilia.— re T. Barbour ; Frére Apollinaris-Maria ; Dr.
Batrachia.—) Maleolm Smith.
Pisces—Indian Museum, Calcutta; Muséum d’Histoire
Naturelle, Paris.
ikea 20 \Prof. H. L. Bouvier ; Dr. W. M. Tattersall.
Pycnogomda.—
Polyzoa.—Dr. R. 8. Bassler.
Porifera.—National Museum, Dublin.
I11.— Departmental Library.
The acquisitions to the Library of the Departments of Zoology
and Entomology, including the Walsingham Library, during the
year, obtained by purchase, presentation and exchange, consist of 58
separate works and pamphlets in 113 volumes, and 1,567 parts of -
periodicals and works in progress.
The work of collating, stamping, press-marking, and entering all
additions in the Catalogue has been performed as usual.
The Museum Clerk in the Library, with the aid and supervision
of an Assistant, has checked all the entries of Zoological works in
the portion of the General Catalogue of Books which has been
printed during the year.
The following donations are worthy of special mention :—
Mathews, G. M., “The Birds of Australia,” Vol. VIL., part 5;
presented by G. M. Mathews, Esq.; Oberthiir, Ch., “ Htudes de
Lépidoptérologie comparée,” Fasc. XVI., presented by M. Ch.
Oberthiir ; MS. note-books, pencil-sketches, and water-colour draw-
ings, made by the late Sir W. H. Flower, k.c.8., F.R.s., formerly
Director, and a collection of Zoological pamphlets by various
authors, bound in 48 volumes, presented by Major S. S. Flower.
The following is a list of Donors.to the Departmental Library
during the year 1919 :—
Agricultural Research Institute, Pusa, Behar, British India.
American Museum of Natural History.
Avicultural Society.
Bergen Museum.
Board of Agriculture and Fisheries.
British Ornithologists’ Union.
British Waterworks Association.
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Bureau of Fisheries, Department of Commerce, Washington, U.S.A.
Bureau of Science, Manila.
Caziot, Cmdt.
Champion, G.C.
Commonwealth of Australia, Department of Trade and Customs.
Conchological Society of Great Britain and Ireland.
Conseil permanent International pour |’Exploration de la Mer.
Cooper Ornithological Club, California.
Deinse, A. B. Van.
Departement van Landbouw, Nijverheid en Handel; Buitenzorg,
Java.
Department of Agriculture, Federated Malay States.
Department of Agriculture, India.
Department of Agriculture, Madras.
Department of Agriculture, Industries and Commerce, Wellington,
New Zealand.
Department. of Agriculture, New South Wales.
Department of Agriculture, Ottawa, Canada.
Department of Agriculture, Union of South Africa.
Department of Agriculture, Victoria, Australia.
Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C., U.S.A.
Department of Agriculture, Wisconsin.
Department of Fisheries, Natal.
Distant, W. L.
Domaniewski, J.
Donald, C. H.
Kecke, R. van.
Entomological Society of London.
Entomological Society of Nova Scotia.
Entomological Society of Ontario, Canada.
Hscomel, Dr. E. EH.
Fernald, H. T.
Field, Editor of.
Flower, Major 8. S.
Foreign Bird Club.
Godman, Dame ‘Alice, D.B.E.
Hamlyn, J. D.
Hampson, Sir G. F., Bart.
Herdman, Prof. W. A., C.B.E., For. Sec. B.S.
Imperial Bureau of Entomology.
Imperial Department of Agriculture, Bridgetown, Barbados.
Indian Museum, Calcutta.
Indian Research Fund Association, Simla, India.
Janet, Ch.
Janini, R. J.
Junta para Ampliacion de Estudios, Madrid.
Jurriaanse, J. H.
Kansas State Agricultural College.
Kennard, A. 8.
Kommissionen for Havundersogelser, Kobenhayn.
96 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
Kinz, G:F:
Laboratorio di Zoologia Generale e Agraria della R. Scuola d’Agri-
coltrua in Portici.
Lansdowne, Marquess of, K.G.
Linnean Society of London.
Lord, C. E.
Mathews, G. M.
Miyake, T.
Moore, A.
Morice, Rev. F. D.
Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard College, Cambridge,
Mass.
Navas, R. P. Longinos.
Nederlindsche Entomologische Vereeniging.
New York State College of Agriculture, Ithaca, N.Y.
Norske Hvalfangerforening, Sandefjord, Norway.
Oberthiir, Ch.
Ohara Instituts fiir landwirtschaftliche Forschungen in Kuraschiki,
Provinz Okayama, Japan.
Pavlovic, Prot. 2. 3s:
Port Elizabeth Museum, The Director of
Ritchie, Dr. J.
Rockefeller Foundation, New York.
Royal Microscopical Society.
Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.
Royaume de Belgique, Ministere des Colonies.
Secretary of State for India.
Sclater, W. L.
Sherborn, C. D.
Shufeldt, Dr. R. W.
Société Entomologique de France.
Stationery Office.
Swann, H. Kirke
Tropical Diseases Bureau, London.
Turner, R. E.
Universidade de Lisboa.
University of Montana.
University of Wyoming, Agricultural Experiment Station.
Wintle, W. J.
Woodward, B. B.
Zoological Museum, Copenhagen.
Zoological Society of London.
Zoological Society of New York.
Zoological Society of Philadelphia.
TV Pi eicapone.
In addition to the official Catalogues and other volumes pub-
lished by the Trustees (see pp. 84-85), various reports and des-
criptive papers have been prepared in connexion with the different
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branches of the collection ; and have been published for the most
part in scientific journals.
For the convenience of reference the following list is appended :—
Mammalia.
By OuprieLD THomas, F.R.S. :—
‘‘On some small Mammals from Catamarca.” Ann. Mag. Nat.
Hist. (9), 1. p: 115,
“The White-toothed Shrew of Palestine.” Jh., p. 32.
“On small Mammals collected by Sr. E. Budin in North-
Western Patagonia.” Jb., p. 199.
“Two new Argentine species of Akodon.” Tb., p. 213.
“Notes on Gerbils referred to the genus Meriones, with des-
criptions of new species and sub-species.” Jh., p. 263.
“On small Mammals from Otro Cerro, Catamarca, collected by
Sri. Badin.” . 7b., p. 489.
‘“‘Two new Gerbils from Sinai.” J/., p. 559.
“Qn a small Collection of Mammals from Lumbo, Mozam-
bique.” Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (9), iv., p. 29.
*“* A new species of Huneomys from Patagonia.” Jb., p. 127.
“Fist of Mammals from the Highlands of Jujuy, North
Argentina, collected by Sr. E. Budin.” Jb., p. 128.
“Two new Rodents from Tartagal, Salta, North Argentina.”
Ib., p. 154,
“The method of taking the Incisive Index in Rodents.” J6.,
p. 289.
“The Types of the Mammals described by M. Fernand
Mataste?” « Sb., p. 350:
Eos) Synopsis of the True Mice fStind within the Indian
Empire.” Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., xxvi., p. 417.
‘“* A new species of Nesokia from Mesopotamia.” /b., p. 422.
‘Note on the genus Cheliones.” Ib., p. 705.
‘Some new Mammals from Mesopotamia.” Jb., p. 745.
By Martin A. C. Hiyton :—
‘Report on the House Rats of India, Burma and Ceylon.”
Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., xxvi., pp. 59, 384 and
“16.
“The Zoology of Rats and Mice, with special reference to the
future control of the Rat population.” Journ. Royal San.
Inst., xl., p. 44.
‘** Notes on the genus Cricetomys, with descriptions of four new
forms.” Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (9), iv., p. 282.
‘The Field Mouse of Foula.”” Scottish Nat., 1919, p. 177.
By R. C. Wroucuron :—
‘Summary of the Results from the Indian Mammal Survey of
the Bombay Natural History Society.” Journ. abay
Nat. Hist. Soc., xxvi., pp. 338, 776.
“Change of coat in the Common Palm-Squirrel—an Peal, é
TR, pe det:
“On the genus Tadarida (Wrinkle-\ip Bats).” /b., p. 731.
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ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
By R. C. Wroventon and Miss W. M. Davipson :—
‘“«'Two new forms of the ‘ Funambulus tristriatus’ group.” Jb.,
28
p- 728.
Aves.
By C. CHUBB :—
‘“‘ Descriptions of one new species and one new sub-species of
South American Birds.” Bull. B.O.C., xxxix., p. 51.
““A new Genus and five new sub-species of South American
Birds. /¢ 7b. pido:
‘¢ New South American forms.” J6., p. 70.
‘‘ A new species from British Guiana.” Jb., p. 78.
“Exhibition of the first British killed example of the Needle-
tailed Swift.” Jb., p. 90.
‘“« A new species from British Guiana.” J0., p. 90.
‘Notes on the family Dendrocolaptidae, with suggestions for
its division.” Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (9), ii, 1919, p. 273.
‘New forms of South American Birds.” Op. cit., iv., 1919,
20,
v nes on collections of birds in the British Museum from
Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Argentina.” Part I,
“‘ Tinamidae-Rallidae,”’ Ibis, 1919, p. 1. Part II, p. 256.
Reptilia and Batrachia.
By G. A. BouLencsrr, F.R.S. :—
“Qn the Madagascar Frogs of the genus Mantidactylus. P.Z.S.
LOVS} p.- 207.
‘“‘ Descriptions of two new Lizards and a new Frog from the
Andes of Colombia.” Op. cit., 1919, p. 79.
‘A List of the Snakes of West Africa, from Mauritania to the
French Congo.” Zb., p. 267.
‘A List of the Snakes of North Africa.” Jb., p. 299.
‘“‘Synopsis of the American species of Rana.” Ann. Mag.
Nat. Hist. (9), iii., p. 408.
‘On the genus Lepidobatrachus, Budgett.” [b., p. 531.
“Description of a new Dyscophid Frog from Yunnan.” JD.,
p. 948.
“Qn a new variety of Acanthodactylus boskianus, Daud., from
the Euphrates.” J6., p. 549.
“On Rana ornatissima, Bocage, and R. ruddi., Blgr.” Tr. R.
Soc. 8: Atr. ‘viil.,-p. oa.
“On a new Lizard of the genus Latastia from Southern
Rhodesia. /fb., p. 39:
‘“‘ Descriptions of three new Batrachians from the Garo Hills,
Assam.” Rec. Ind. Mus. xvi., p. 207.
‘An interesting Addition to the Batrachian Fauna of Kashmir
(Aelurophryne mammata).” Ib., p. 469.
“Un cas d’évolution ontogénique a rebours chez un Lézard
africain (Hremias lugubris, A. Smith).” O.R.Ac. Sei.
Paris, clxviil., p. 78.
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“Un cas intéressant de dimorphisme sexuel chez un Serpent
africain (Bothrolycus ater, Gimther).” /b., p. 666. .
“Sur le genre Saphcosaurus, Rhynchocéphalien du Kim-
meridgien de Cerin,” Op. cit., clxix., p. 605.
‘Batraciens et Reptiles recueillis par le Dr. C. Christy au
Congo belge dans les districts de Stanleyville, Haut-Ueleé
et Ituri en 1912-1914.” Rev. Zool. Afr. vii., p. 1.
“Descriptions d’un Ophidien et d’un Batracien nouveaux du
Congo.” Jb., p. 186.
‘Sur les Lézards du genre Acanthodactylus, Wiegm.” Bull.
Soe. Zool. France, xliii., p. 143.
“Sur ? Agama tournevillei, Lataste, du Sahara algérien.”
Op. cts, xlivs po lll.
“Le Lézard vert de la Péninsule ibérique, ses variations et sa
distribution.” Bol. Soc. Espan. Hist. Nat., xix., p. 59.
“ Sur le Pelobates wilsoni Bosca.” Ib., p. 293.
Pisces.
By G. A. BouLencer, F.R.S. :—
“On a collection of Fishes from Lake Tanganyika, with
descriptions of three new species.” P.Z.S. 1919, p. 17.
“On some new Fishes from near the West Coast of Lake
Tanganyika.” J0., p. 399.
“A List of the Freshwater Fishes of Sierra Leone.” Ann.
Mag. Nat. Hist. (9), iv., p. 34.
L’évolution est-elle réversible? Considérations au sujet de
certains Poissons.” C. R. Ac. Sci.. Paris, elxviil., p. 41..
“La distribution en Afrique des Barbeaux du _ sous-genre
Labeobarbus.” Op. cit., clxix., p. 1016.
*¢ Descriptions de Poissons nouveaux du Congo.” Rev. Zool.
ALY, Vil... LOS.
By C. Tare Recan, F.R.S. :-—
““Note on Chaudhuria caudata, a Teleostean Fish of the
order Opisthomi.” Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (9), iii., p. 198.
** Fishes from Durban, Natal, collected by Messrs. H. W. Bell
Marley and Romer Robinson.” Ann. Durban Museum,
me Cp. 19%.
Mollusca.
By A. H. Cooks, 8c.D. :—
“The Radula of Thais, Drupa .. . and allied genera.” Proc.
alae? Secs xin. 1919, p. 91.
Arachnida.
By A. 8. Hirst :—
“Two new Parasitic Mites (Myocoptes hintoni and Psoroptes
natalensis.” Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (9), iii., p. 524.
100 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
Crustacea.
By W. T. Cauman, D.Sc. :—
“Cumacea and Phyllocarida.”’ Australasian Antarctic
Expedition Scientific Reports, Series C., Vol. V., part 6.
“On Barnacles of the Genus Megalasma from Deep-sea
Telegraph Cables.” Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (9), iv.. p. 361.
Platyhelminthes and Nemathelminthes.
By H. A. Bayzis, M.A. :—
«A remarkable Cysticercus from a rare Dolphin.” Ann. Mag.
Nat. Hist. (9), ii., p. 417.
‘Some new Entozoa from Birds in Uganda.” Jb., p. 497.
«A collection of Entozoa, chiefly from Birds, from the Murman
Coast.” Jb., p. 501.
‘A new species of the Nematode genus Crossocephalus from the
Rhinoceros.” J/b., p. 94.
‘(On a curious Malformation in 7aeniu saginata.” Op. cit. (9),
iv., p. 114.
“ Crossophorus collaris, Hemprich and Ehrenberg, a little-
known Nematode Parasite of the Hyrax.” /b., p. 343.
“On two new Species of the Cestode genus Oochoristica from
Lizards.” Parasitology, xi., p. 405.
V.— Acquisitions. Hf
MAMMALIA.
The accessions during the past year have been both numerous
and important. Chief among them is the Lataste collection, most
generously presented by M. Fernand Lataste. This great collection
contains about 1,500 mammals, mostly from Europe, North Africa,
and South America ; and it formed the basis of M. Lataste’s well-
known researches in mammalogy. Of the total number received,
about 1,000 specimens, including the types of 21 species and sub-
species described by M. Lataste, have now been registered and
incorporated in the collection.
Another important accession is the large collection of heads,
horns, stuffed specimens and skins of Big Game, formed by the late
Captain I’. C. Selous, D.S.O., and presented to the Museum by his
widow. Although naturally African game-mammals predominate
in this collection, it contains specimens from other regions, including
many fine heads of Moose and Caribou from North America.
Special attention may be drawn to the following acquisitions,
arranged in geographical order :—
Europe.
8 Sousliks (Citellus citellus) from Salonika ; presented by Lieut.
Cecil Worssam.
* A table showing the number of specimens ad ed during the year 1919 is given
on page 112.
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60 small mammals from Switzerland ; presented by the Hon.
N. Charles Rothschild.
A Soushk (Citellus citellus) from Macedonia, collected by the
late Lieut. P. D. Montague ; presented by Mrs. Montague.
Mounted head of a Norwegian Elk ; presented by Col. Pitt- Taylor.
12 Bank Voles (Hvotomys caesarius) from St. Aubins, Jersey ;
presented by EK. Hollis, sq.
A semi-albino Water Shrew from the River Chelmer ; presented
by A. Brazer, sq.
Tooth of a Sperm Whale (Physeter catodon) ; presented by Walter
Bonwick, Esq.
Tooth of a Sperm Whale (Physeter catodon) with diseased fang,
from Norway ; presented by Johan Rasmussen, Esq.
Tooth of a Sowerby’s Whale (MJesoplodon bidens) from Moray
Firth ; presented by W. Taylor, Esq.
Tympanic bone of a Sibbald’s Rorqual (Balaenoptera musculus)
from Colonsay Island ; presented by Philip Mair, Esq.
Parts of Cetacea stranded on the British Coasts during 1919,
and particularly :—
Common Porpoises (Phocaena phocaena) from Suffolk, Kent,
and Lincolnshire.
Common Dolphin (Delphinus delphis) from Co. Cork.
White-sided Dolphin (Lagenorhynchus acutus) from the
Shetland Islands.
Risso’s Grampus (Grampus griseus) from the River Forth.
Lesser Rorquals (Balaenoptera acutorostrata) from Kinear-
dine and Durham.
Common Rorqual (B. physalus) from Pembroke. |
Presented by the Board of Trade.
Head of a European Bison Calf (Bos bonasus) ; presented by the
Zoological Society.
A Human skull “from the old Whitechapel burial ground” ;
presented by C. T. Holloway, Esq.
Skeleton of a Siamese Cat ; presented by W. K. Taunton, Esq.
Thirteen Eskimo puppy skins ; presented by the Sabellum Trading
Company.
Cast of the skull of a Bull-dog “ Kilburn Duke”; presented by
Messrs. Rowland Ward, Ltd.
Skeletons of Bull-dogs ‘“‘ Rowland Queenie’
Rex”; presented by Mrs. F. R. Griffiths.
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and ‘‘ Rowland
Asia.
26 small mammals from Asia Minor, collected by the donors
during their captivity after the fall of Kut; presented by Capt.
W. W. A. Phillips and Capt. F. J. Patmore.
3 voles of the sub-genus Arbusticola from Tiflis ; presented by
Dr. Shidlovsky.
29 mammals from Palestine ; presented by Major Maurice Portal.
36 small mammals from N.W. Persia ; ovresented by Capt. P. A.
Buxton.
102 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
A Fox from the River Tigris ; presented by Major Cuthbert
Christy.
18 Desert Gerbils (Cheliones hurrianae) from Gujerat, Kathiawar
and Sind, and the types of a new Hedgehog, a new Gerbil, and two
new Bats from Mesopotamia ; presented by the Bombay Natural
Liistory Society.
150 mammals from the Deccan and the Nilgiri Hills, India,
including the types of two new Squirrels ; collected and presented
by Capt. P. H. Gosse, R.A.M.C.
146 small mammals collected in Baluchistan and Persia by Col.
KE. J. Hotson ; presented by the Bombay Natural History Society. .
Head of a Swamp Deer (Rucervus duvaueelii) with horns
approaching the record in length ; presented by J. S. C. Davis, Esq.
20 mammals from Siam ; pr ssc by MOET: Lyle, Esq:
An Isabelline Bear (Ursus arctos isabellinus) from Kashmir,
which lived for many years in the gardens of the Zoological Society ;
presented by Mrs. Whatman.
118 small and 43 larger mammals from Korinchi, Sumatra ;
presented by Herbert (. Robinson and C. Boden Kloss, Esqrs.
11 skulls of Babirusa from Taliaboe Island ; presented by W.
Frost, Esq.
21 small mammals from China, including a new species of
Tadarida ; collected and presented by J. D. La Touche, Esq.
2 Shrews and a Vole from Bering Island ; presented by Lord
Rothschild, F.RS.
Africa.
41 small mammals from Sinai and Egypt, ohn the types ot
two new Gerbils ; presented by the Egyptian Zoological Service.
A Shrew and a Mouse from the White Nile ; presented by the
Rev. A. Shaw.
A Barbary Ape (Macaca sylvana) and a Fox (Vulpes atlantica)
from the Atlas Mountains ; collected and presented by Capt. H.
Lynes, R_N., C.B., C.M.G.
Skull of a Leopard and skin of a Clawless Otter from Abyssinia;
presented by C. A, Willis, Esq.
An Anomalure (Anomalurus beecrofti) from Sierra Leone ; pre-
sented by Gilbert Blaine, Esq.
2 Jumping Hares (Pedetes) from Bihé, Angola ; presented by
KE. Sanders, Esq.
Horns had a piece of skin of a Sitatunga (Limnotragus gratus)
from Sofnyama Creek, R. Gambia ; s ‘presented by E. Hopkinson, Esq.
Skins of four Monkeys from the Upper St. Paul’s River,
Liberia ; presented by Sir A. Sharpe.
Mounted specimen of a rare Antelope (Cephalophus anchietae)
from the Cavaka River, Benguella, Angola; presented by G. W.
Penrice, Esq.
6 mammals from the Gold Coast and Nigeria ; collected and
presented by Major C. H. Armitage, C.M.G., D.S.O.
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_ 13 small mammals from the Ja River, South Cameroons, col-
lected by Mr. G. L. Bates ; purchased.
The type of Deomys ferrugineus from the Low er Congo ; received
in exchange.
164 small mammals from the Ituri Forest and Welle Basin,
Upper Congo, collected by Major C. Christy ; presented by the
Congo Museum, Tervueren.
4 small mammals from the Upper Congo, collected by Major C.
Christy, ; received in exchange.
Skull with large tusks of an African Elephant from the Upper
Congo, collected by Major CU. Christy ; purchased.
Potamogale velox from the Congo; presented by George S.
Young, Esq.
35 small mammals from Inkongo, Sankuru, South Congo, col-
lected by Mr. H. Wilson ; purchased.
16 small mammals from British East Africa ; presented by Dr.
V. G. L. van Someren.
4 mammals from the Mabira Forest, Uganda ; presented by Dr.
V. G. L. van Someren.
A Shrew we idura) from Uganda ; presented by Dr. R. van
Someren.
6 small mammals and a Duiker from German East Africa ; col-
lected and presented by Major C. H. B. Grant.
6 skins of a rare Duiker (Cephalophus spadix) from Magamba
Woods, Usambara ; presented by A. C. Hollis, Esq.
Skin of a rare Duiker (Cephalophus spadiw) from Magamba
Woods, Usambara ; presented by Major H. C. Stiebel.
A rare Duiker (Cephalophus harveyi), with photographs of a
- living specimen, from Usambara ; presented by Sir H. A. Byatt,
K.C.M.G.
Skin of a young lion from German Hast Africa ; presented by
Major A. L. Cooper.
Skin of a new-born Kudu (Strepsiceros strepsiceros) from Lake
Baringo, British Hast Africa ; presented by Dr. Lyon Falkener.
Skins and skulls of two antelopes (Cephalophus grimnu and
Nesotragus livingstonianus) from Chiromo, South Nyasaland ; pre-
sented by A. O. Hodgson, Ksq.
An unusually pale-coloured leopard from Rhodesia ; presented
by Dr. Walter Fisher.
A Bat (Chaerephon limbatus) from Zanzibar ; presented by Com-
mander Smart, R.N.
6 mammals from Zanzibar and Pemba, including two specimens
of the new Zanzibar Duiker (Cephalophus adersi) ; presented by Dr.
W. M. Aders.
32 mammals collected by Mr. H. H. Swinny in the Island of
Zanzibar, including a rare monkey (Colobus kirki) and a new Crice-
tomys ; presented by Colonel G. P. Cosens.
9 small mammals from Pondoland ; collected and presented by
A. H. Swinny, Esq.
14 gorilla skeletons from the French Congo ; purchased.
104 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
A foetus of the Fin-whale (Balaenoptera physalus) from Saldanha
Bay ; presented by Dr. J. D. F. Gilchrist.
America, North.
An Arctic Fox, an Arctic Hare, and a Lemming brought home
from Parry’s expedition to the North-west of Baffin’s Bay, 1818,
by Midshipman Joseph Nias, of H.M.S. Alexander ; presented by
Miss Caroline Nias.
7 mammals collected by Sir A. H. Markham, K.C.B., in Grant
Land and Grinnell Land during the voyage of H.M.S. Alert, 1875-
1876 ; presented by Lady Markham.
Head of an Elk (Alces alces americanus) from Nova Scotia ;
presented by Lady Inglis.
6 Bats from Goleta, California ; presented by W.S. M. D’ Urban,
kisq.
America, South.
3 Agoutis from British Guiana ; purchased.
6 mammals from Bogota ; received in exchange.
10 rodents from Santa Cruz and Bolivia, including the type of
Huneomys dabbeni ; presented by the Buenos Aires Museum.
The following specimens collected by Sr. 8. Budin :—
68 mammals from Patagonia, including the types of two new
species ;
62 small mammals from Otro Cerro, Catamarca, including
the types of 8 new specics.
6 small mammals from Jujuy and 8 from Salta, North
Argentina.
78 small mammals from Abrapampa and 44 from Jujuy,
North Argentina ; presented by Oldfield Thomas, Ksq.,
aS CaS
The head of a Javiro Indian from Amazonian Peru ; presented
by HE. Kanthack, Esq.
Australasia.
50 Bats from New Caledonia, collected by the late Lieut. P. D.
Montague ; presented by Mrs. Montague.
A native Mouse (Pseudomys (Thetomys) gracilicauda) from
Queensland ; presented by H. Batchelor, Esq.
An immature skull of Cuvier’s Beaked Whale (Ziphius caviros-
tris) from New Zealand : purchased.
AVES.
The acquisitions number twelve thousand three hundred and
ninety-four. Of these the most noteworthy are as follows :—
Europe. |
12 birds, 99 nests and 7,010 eggs, collected by the late Capt.
F. C. Selous, D.8.O.; presented by Mrs. F. C. Selous.
1,759 British birds, collected by the late Mr. Fergus Menteith
Ogilvie : presented by Mrs. Menteith Ogilvie.
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53 birds from Somersetshire ; collected and presented by Robin
Kemp, Esq.
116 nests, chiefly from Spain and the British Islands ; presented
by Capt. H. Lynes, R.N.,C.B., CMG.
Asia.
265 birds from the Decean, Southern India ; presented by Capt.
Pr... Gossey k.A.M.C.
100 birds from Palestine ; collected and presented by Colonel R.
Meinertzhagen.
12 birds from North-east Siberia ; received in exchange from
Lord William Percy.
139 birds from Java; collected and presented by Herbert C.
Robinson, Esq.
525 birds from Annam ; collected and presented by Herbert C.
Robinson and C. Boden Kloss, Esqrs.
44 nests and 510 eges from North China ; collected and pre-
sented by J. D. La Touche, Esq.
13 birds from Java ; presented by Mrs. Chaplin.
Africa.
31 birds from Somaliland, including the type specimen of
Columba olive ; collected and pr Pinion by Geoffrey F. Archer, Esq.
118 birds from the Bahr-el-Ghazal district ; presented by Major
C. Christy.
163 birds from the Canary Islands, collected by D. A.
Bannerman, Esq. ; purchased.
253 birds from the Belgian Congo, including the type specimen
of Crateropus tenebrosus claudei ; presented by the Tervueren Museum.
92 birds from the Sudan ; presented by H. H. King, Esq.
A mounted female of the Northern Ostrich (Struthio camelus
Linn.) from north-west Africa ; presented by the Trustees of the
Rowland Ward Bequest.
26 specimens from East Africa ; presented by Major C. fH. B.
Grant.
The type specimens of Serinus sharpei from Lake Naivasha and
Chlorophoneus andarye from Uganda ; presented by Sir Frederick
Jackson, K.C.M.G., C.B.
211 birds from the Middle Atlas Mountains ; collected and pre-
sented by Capt. H. Lynes, R.N., C.B., C.M.G. .
95 eggs from the Canary Islands ; collected and presented by D.
A. Bannerman, Esq.
America.
10. birds from the North-west of Baffins Bay, collected by
Midshipman J. Nias during the Parry Expedition, 1818 ; presented
by Lady Nias.
8 birds, including recently described new forms, from San
Domingo ; received in exchange from Dr. Leonard ©. Sanford.
106 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
30 birds from Arctic America, collected by Admiral Sir A. H.
Markham, K.C.B., during the voyage of H.M.S. “ Alert,” 1875-76 ;
presented by Lady ‘Manian
102 birds from Jamaica ; presented by Mrs. Harvey.
9 birds from Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia, inelud-
ing Specie: which had been desiderata to the collection ; received in
exchange from Major Allan Brooks,
85 eges from the Falkland Islands ; presented by Mrs. Julia
Cobb.
Australasia.
318 birds from Lord Howe and Norfolk Islands ; presented by
Gregory M. Mathews, Esq.
REPTILIA.
312 specimens were added to the collection, 272 by presentation,
40 by exchange.
The following deserve notice :—
Europe.
4 snakes from dea sie’ a. Presented by Capt. J. Waterston.
Asia.
16 Reptiles from Sinai and Palestine. Presented by Major E.
i. Austen, D.S.O.
38 Reptiles from Mesopotamia, including a snake, Nata morgan,
new to the collection; presented by the Bombay Natural History
Society.
34 Reptiles from Mesopotamia, including a remarkable Lizard,
Acanthodactylus boskianus, var. euphraticus ; presented by Dr, C. L.
Boulenger.
11 Reptiles from Mesopotamia ; presented by Major C. Christy.
5 Reptiles from Mesopotamia ; presented by Capt. P. A. Buston.
3 Lizards from the South Coast of the Caspian Sea ; presented
by Capt. P. A. Buaton.
31 Reptiles from Persia and Baluchistan, including a Viper,
Pseudocerastes persicus, new-to the collection, and the type of a new
Snake, Contia condoni ; presented by the Bombay Natural History
Society.
A rare Tortoise, Lestudo impressa, and 7 specimens of a little-
known Sea Snake, ED ee br ‘ookit, from Siam ; presented by Dr.
Malcolm Smith.
Africa.
599 specimens selected from the collection made by Major C.
Christy for the Belgian Government in the Belgian Congo, including
examples of a Chameleon, Rhampholeon boulengeri, new to the
collection ; ; presented by the Congo Museum, Tervueren.
11 specimens from the Belgian Congo, including a Lizard,
Bedriagaia tropidopholis, new to the collection, and the type of a
new Snake, Glauconia kafubi; presented by the Congo Museum,
Tervueren.
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Co-types of two new Lizards, Hremias garambensis and Mabuia
sudanensis, and of two new Chameleons, Chameleon etiennet and C.
ituriensis ; presented by the American Museum of Natural History,
New York.
14 specimens from the West Coast of Lake Tanganyika ;
presented by Mons. G. Dhont-De Bre.
America.
An example of a new Alligator Terrapin, Chelydra osceola, and
a Lizard, Sceloporus cookii, new to the collection, from Florida ;
received in exchange from the Museum of Comparative Zoology,
Cambridge, U.S.A.
A remarkably large skin of a Rattlesnake, Crotalus durissus,
from Florida ; presented by Mrs. Vans Corbett.
An Amphisbeena, Cadra palirostrata, from Cuba, new to the
collection ; received in exchange from the Museum of Comparative
ZLodlogy, Cambridge, U.S.A.
31 Reptiles from the Andes of Colombia, including types of two
new Lizards, Anolis apollinaris and Proctoporus bogotensis ; received
in exchange from Bro. Apollinaris-Maria.
BATRACHIA.
The accessions numbered 194, of which 139 were presented and
55 received in exchange.
The following deserve special mention :—
Asia.
A rare Frog, type of a new genus, Aelurophryne mammata, from
the Ladak Valley, Kashmir ; presented by Dr. C. L. Boulenger.
The type of a new Frog of the genus Nyctibatrachus, from the
Coorg Forest, India ; ; presented by C, R. Na arayan Rao, Esq.
5 Frogs fron Sigan including the type of a new species, Rana
cubitalis ; presented by Di Malcolm Smith.
Africa.
44 specimens selected from the collection made by Major C.
Christy for the Belgian Government in the Belgian Congo, including
types of 3 new species, Rana christy, Phrynobatrachus discodactylus,
Arthroleptis dendrobates ; presented by the Congo Museum, Tervueren.
27 Frogs from the West Coast Lake Tanganyika ; presented
by Mons. G. Dhont-De Bie.
The type of a new Frog (Plethodontohyla tuberijera) from
Madagascar ; presented by the Hon. P. A, Methuen.
America.
30 specimens from North America, including four Salamanders
(Plethodon metcaln, P. jordam, P. dorsalis, and Spelerpes melano-
pleura) new to the collection ; received in exchange from the Museum
of Comparative Zodlogy, Cambridge, U.S.A.
108 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
2 specimens from North America, including a Salamander
(Plethodon yonahlossa) new to the collection ; presented by the
American Museum of Natural History.
The type specimens of two Frogs (Lepidobatrachus asper and
L. levis) from Paraguay ; received in exchange from the Univer-
sity Museum of Zoology, Cambridge. ;
16 specimens from the Andes of Colombia, including a Frog
(Hylodes affinis) new to the collection, and the type of a new
species (Hylixalus yranuliventris) ; received in exchange from Bro.
Apollinaris- Maria.
PISCEs.
The accessions number 830 ; 775 presented, 6 purchased, and 49
received in exchange.
The following deserve special mention :—
A very large Roach (Rutilus rutilus) from Saffron Walden ;
presented by H. T. Sheringham, Esq.
48 Fishes from Africa, including several co-types ; received in
exchange from the Paris Museum.
_ 8 Fishes from the Shari River, including the types of two new
species (Barbus baudoni and Andersonia pellegrini) ; presented by
Mons. A. Baudon.
18 Fishes from Sierra Leone ; presented by A. F. Wingate, Esq.
24 Fishes from the Congo, including the types of four new
species (Barbus uellensis, Amphilius maesti, A. opisthophthalmus,
and Allabenchelys manyanga) ; presented by the Congo Museum,
Tervueren.
319 Fishes from the Congo, collected by Major C. Christy,
including the types of a number of new species ; presented by the
Congo Museum, Tervueren.
34 Fishes from Dar-es-Salaam ; presented by J. Pomeroy, Esq.
92 Fishes from the Coast of Natal, including the types of seven
new species (Apogon polylepis, Diagramma chubh, Iso natalensis,
Callionymus marleyi, Amblyapistus marleyi, Plagusia robinsom, and
Tetrodon pleurospilus) ; collected and presented by H.W. Bell Marley,
Esq., and Romer Robinson, Esq. .
Co-types of a Gobioid Fish (Lleotris legendrii) from Madagascar ;
presented by Dr. J. Legendre. |
8 Fishes of the genus Discognathus, including co-types of /).
phryne, D. elegans, and 1), adiscus, from India and Baluchistan ;
presented by the Indian Museum, Calcutta.
18 Cyprinoid Fishes from Mysore, co-types of five new species
(Discognathus bicornutus, D. platycephalus, D. brevimentalis, Botia
striata, and Nemachilichthys sbiomogensis), described by the donor ;
presented by Prof. C. R. Narayan Rao.
A King Salmon (Oncorhynchus quinnat) from British Columbia,
weight 62 lbs. ; presented by Robert Page, Esq.
2 specimens of a Lamprey (Jchthyomyzon fossor) new to the
collection, from Michigan ; presented by Dr. A. G. Ruthven.
6 Fishes from British Guiana ; purchased.
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A salmon (Salmo salar), weight 7 Ilbs., from New Zealand;
presented by H. T, Sheringham, Esq.
Mo.uuusca.
The total number of specimens received during the year is
1,968. Of these 1,637 were presented, 107 purchased, and. 224
obtained by the “Terra Nova” Hxpedition. The most noteworthy
accessions are enumerated below :—
From various Localities.
One hundred and twenty-five microscopical preparations of
Lamellibranch anatomy, nineteen preparations and eighty specimens
of Cephalopoda, obtained by the “‘ Terra Nova.”
Sixty-seven specimens (including ten types) of Nudibranchs ; pre-
sented (with the concurrence of the original owners) by T. J. Evans, Esq.
63 types of marine, fresh-water, and land Mollusca ; purchased.
Europe.
25 examples of Paludestrina jenkinsi from Randers Fjord,
Denmark ; presented by Dr. A. C. Johansen.
3 microscopical preparations of a parthenogenetic Paludestrina
jenkinsi from Elstree, Herts; presented by Dr. A. EL. Boycott, FR.S.
21 shells of Buccinum undatum and Fusus antiquus shewing
teratological resemblance to shells of other genera, from various
British localities ; presented by the Rev. G. Henslow.
9 microscopical preparations and 7 complete examples of
Coceulina galeola from the Ivish Atlantic Slope ; presented by the
Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction for Ireland.
71 Fresh-water Mollusca from North Russia ; presented by
Surgeon-Liewt. R. Buddle, RN.
Asia.
14 Land Mollusca from North Persia; presented by Capt.
P;, A; Button:
96 Land and Fresh-water Mollusca from Palestine ; presented
by Major FE. E. Austen, DS.O.
A figured specimen of Haliotis japonica from- Japan ; presented
by H. C. Fulton, Esq.
10 shells of land Gastropoda from Penang and Torres Straits ;
presented by Dr. R. F. Scharff.
5 Nudibranchs from the Andaman Islands ; presented by the
Director of the Zoological Survey of India.
86 shells of Gastropoda and Lamellibranchiata from alluvium at
Nasiriyah, Mesopotamia ; presented by Capt. Rk. W. Hingston.
9 shells of Septaria, Theodoxus, and Melania from the Soela
Archipelago, all bearing the egg-capsules of Theodoxus pulligera ;
presented by G. C. Robson, Esq.
Africa.
4 shells (3 types and 1 co-type) of Gastropoda from South
Africa ; presented by Major M. Connolly.
168 Land shells from Algeria ; presented by Lord Rothschild,
i .S.
110 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
America.
11 shells of Planorbis antrosus from various localities ; presented
by Seale HA. Pilsbry.
2 shells (co-types) of Brachypodella nidicostatus from Venezuela;
presented by G. C. Spence, Esq.
MyRIOPODA.
The additions number 55 specimens, none of which are of special
importance.
PROTOTRACHEATA.
The only specimens added during the year are examples of
Typhloperipatus willamson, collected by the Abor Expedition ;
presented by the Indian Museum, Calcutta.
ARACHNIDA.
The accessions number 635, the following being of special
interest :—
230 specimens of ‘“‘ Red Spiders ”’ (Tetranychus and Paratetrany-
chus), including the types of 3 new species, from various English
plants and trees ; presented by A. S. Hirst, Esq.
69 specimens of Arachnida (mostly Ixodide) from various
localities ; presented by the Imperial Bureau of Entomology.
34 Arachnida from South Palestine ; presented by Major E. E.
Austen, D.S.O.
Specimens of an alleged poisonous spider (Lathrodectus mactans,
var.) from Arequipa, Peru ; presented by the Wellcome Bureau of
Scientific Research.
. CRUSTACEA.
The most important addition made during the year was a collec-
tion of Marine and Terrestrial Isopoda containing 543 specimens,
including types of five recently described species and many species
new to the collection ; purchased.
The other additions number 453, and include :—
126 specimens of Indian Crustacea, being nearly all co-types of
recently described species ; presented by the Director of the Zoological
Survey of India.
42 specimens of marine Boring Crustacea from Australia and
New Zealand ; presented by Prof. C. Chilton.
37 specimens of Crustacea taken from Deep-sea Telegraph
Cables; presented by the Kastern and Associated Telegraph
Companies.
41 Crustacea from various’ localities ; presented by the Imperial
Bureau of Entomology.
16 Crustacea from Africa ; presented by Monsieur E. Dhont-de
Bre.
6 Co-types of a species of boring Isopod from Florida ; presented
by the U.S. National Museum, Washinaton.
3 additional specimens of the very rare and remarkable
Bathynella natans from Basle ; presented by Dr. P. A. Chappuis.
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16 specimens of freshwater and terrestrial Crustacea from Sinai
and Palestine ; presented by Major EL. FE. Austen, D.S.O.
+ Mysidacea from the Yorkshire Coast ; presented BY WV ck,
Pycraft, Esq.
4 Crustacea from Dar-es-Salaam ; presented by Commander
Smart, RN.
15 specimens of the Fairy shrimp (Chirocephalus diaphanus)
from Buckinghamshire ; presented by Chas. Oldham, Esq., and by
J. F. G. Seltman,! Esq.
91 specimens of freshwater and terrestrial Crustacea (including
the holotype of a new species) from Mesopotamia ; presented by
Capt. C. L. Boulenger.
4 Crustacea from Basra ; presented by Major C. Christy.
5 specimens of a parasitic Crustacean from the Transvaal ;
presented by the Hon. P. A. Methuen,
EXCHINODERMA.
8 specimens collected in the China Sea, including 2 specimens of
a Stalked Crinoid (Metacrinus interruptus) ; presented by the Eastern
and Associated Telegraph Companies.
Worms.
Among the earthworms attention should be called to Dichogaster
stuhlmanni, from the Sudan ; presented by Major S. S. Flower ; and
to a luminous species, Chilota algoensis, from Table Mountain ;
presented Dr. J. D. F. Gilchrist.
A collection of 73 Polychaetes, ete., determined and presented by
H. A. Baylis, 1sq.
An interesting collection of 14 British Leeches ; presented by
W.N. Blar, Esq.
The total number of specimens of parasitic worms registered
during the year was 570. Among these the following were the
more important additions to the collection :—
A considerable number of Entozoa, chiefly from birds (including
5 new species), from the Murman Coast, collected and presented by
Dr. EF. A. Cockayne.
A collection of Entozoa from birds, chiefly new species, from
Uganda, collected by Mr. C. C. Gowdey, and presented by the
Imperial Bureau of Entomology.
Co-types of the parasitic Turbellarian, lvagina incola, from
Scotland ; presented by Dr. R. T. Leiper.
Examples of 7 species of parasitic worms (including type
specimens of 4 species) from India ; presented by Lt.-Col. Clayton
Lane, I.M.S.
A very remarkable specimen of 7uenia saginata (from a patient
in London), showing a_ hitherto undescribed malformation of the
segments ; presented by Dro WT. Either.
Various collections of parasitic worms from Africa and from
South America; presented by the Imperial Bureau of Intomology.
112 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
BRACHIOPODA.
The total number of specimens received during the year is
211, of which 12 were presented and 199 obtained by the “ Terra
Nova.”’
Hyprozoa.
The most important addition is a collection of microscopic slides
of Hydroida, mostly co-types, representing 50 species ; presented by
W. WM. Bale, Esq.
Summary of the Acquisitions in the Department of Zoology
during 1919.
ee ee ee ee EE Donations. | Purchases. | Exchanges.| Totals.
General Collection ste 2,014 66 11 2,091
_ J} Osteological Collection:—
Mammalia Anthropology a: 2 — Le 2
( Cetacea a Ae 13 — — 13
Skins ee as a= oa 4,170 210 29 4,409
Eges m es se Boe 7,720 — — 7,720
Aves Nests a8 = as “ne 265 = = 265
ie 455 seu ae — = Ee ES
Domesticated Animals ... ~ ve 2 | — ae 24
Reptilia he A ae 272 _ 40 312
Batrachia ... Jee fee one aes 139 — 55 194
Pisces 775 6 49 830
Tunicata fi — os rf
Pterobranchia ods is 3 -- — 3
Mollusca... oa Ee ie Sc 1,861 107 = 1,968
Myriopoda... 5D — = 55
Prototracheata 3 — =< 3
Arachnida ... 635 — —_ 635
Crustacea ... 452 | 544 — 996
Pycnogonida ea wee ie a — —_ wis Ak
Echinoderma __... = oer ee 13 = bah 13
‘ Chaetopoda, ete... es 93 _ = 93
Worms { Parasitic Worms ... ae 570 = a= 570
Brachiopoda sss ead yx Se 211 — = 211
Polyzoa... my eed aes wat 57 4 utd BT
Anthozoa ... ee ah oY sh 18 a Ss 18
FEY ATOZ soe) Tscel fee ee eee 162 — = 162
Porifera_... ae re i oe 21 1 5 Q7
PeotoZO0 ( coy- iijers ng see eS ae pai a oer 8
Totals ... és aa 19,563 934 189 20,686
The following donors* presented specimens to the Department
of Zoology during the year 1919 :-—
Adams, F. C. Archer, G. F.
Adams, Lionel Armitage, Major C. H., c.M.G.,
Aders, Dr. W. M. D.S.0.
Aldous, Lieut. F. G. Austen, Major H. E., p.s.0.
* A list of donors of books, etc., is given on pp. 94—96, under the heading
“Departmental Library.”
DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY.
Bale, W. M.
Bannerman, D. A.
Baring, The Hon. C.
Batchelor, H.
Bateson, Prof. W., F.R.s.
Baylis, H. A.
Beck, R.
Bennett, A. G.
Bishop, A. H.
Blair, W. N.
Blewitt, Miss A. |
Blyth, Capt. W. B.
Board of Trade
Bombay Natural History Society
Bonwick, W.
Boulenger, Dr. C. L.
Boulenger, G. A., F.R.S.
Box: HH. KE.
Boycott, Dr. A. E., FR.
Branwhite, Lieut. ae
Brazier, A.
Brooke, H. ©
Brown, G. F.
Brown, Horace
Bryan, B.
Bryden, H. A.
Buchanan, Capt. A.
Buddle, Surg.-Lieut. R., R.N.
_ Buenos Aires Museum
Buxton, Capt. P. A., R.a.M.c.
Byatt, Sir H. A., K.c.M.a.
Calcutta, Indian Museum
Carter, C. S.
Chabanaud, P.
Chaplin, Mrs.
Chapman, 8.
Chappuis, P. A. .
Cheesman, Major R. E.
Cheeseman, Miss
Chilton, Prof. C.
Christy, Major C.
Cleland, Dr. J. Burton
Cobb, Mrs. J.
Cockayne, Dr. E. A.
Connolly, Major M.
Cooper, Major A. L.
Cooper, Brig.-Gen. R.
Corbett, Mrs. Vans
Cosens, Col. G. P.
Dale, G. H.
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Dalton, Messrs. W. & Son
Davis, J. 8. C.
Denny, Profy.A:
Department of Agriculture and
Technical Instruction for
Treland
Dhont de Bie, G.
Dick, W.
Digby, B.
Drayton, E. E.
D’ Urban, W. M.'8.
Dymes, T. A.
Edinburgh, Royal (Dick) Veteri-
nary College
Kgyptian Zoological Service
Evans, T. J.
Falkener, Dr. Lyon
Fisher, Dr. Walter
Flower, Major S. 8.
Forbes, Dr. H. O.
Frohawk, F. W.
Frost, W.
Fulton, H. C.
Gibbs, Miss
Gilchrist, Dr. J. D. F.
Gosse, Capt. P. H., R.A.M.c.
Gowdey, C. C.
Graham, Major C.
Grant, Major C. H. B.
Gregory, A. G.
Griffiths, Mrs. F. R.
Haggerston (the late),
mander T.
Harmer, Dr.S. F., mx.s.
Harvey, Mrs.
Henslow, Rev. G.
Com-
’ Heron-Allen, E., F.R.s.
Hilher, Dr. W..4,
Hinde, Mrs.
Hingston, Capt. R. W.
Hodgson, A. O.
Holland, Col. T. C. B.
Hollis, A. C.
Hollis, H.
Holloway, C. T.
Hopkinson, E.
Hurrell, H. E.
Imperial Bureau of Entomology
Inglis, Lady
Jackson, Sir F rederick, K.C.M.G.
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Jackson, J. W.
Jaiderholm, Dr. E.
Jobson, W. P.
Johansen, Dr. A. C.
Johnson, W. B.
Jones, Walter
Kanthack, E.
Kemp, Robin
King, “i; i.
Kirkpatrick, R.
Kloss, C. Boden
Kuala Lumpur, Federated Malay
States Museum
Kiirsteiner, C. W.
Laing, Miss H.
Lane, Lieut.-Col. Clayton, 1.M.s.
Lang, Dr. W. D.
Lataste, Fernand
La Touche, J. D.
Legendre, Dr. J.
Leiper, Dr. R. T.
Lynes, Capt. Hubert, R.N.
Lyles TEL.
Mackworth-Praed, C.
Mair, P.
Markham, Lady
Marley, H. W. Bell
Martin, Prof. A.
Mathews, G. M.
Meinertzhagen, Col. R.
Methuen, Hon. P. A.
Montague, Mrs.
Morton, W.
Muir, F.
Munt, H.
New York, American Museum of
Natural History
Nias, Miss Caroline
Nias, Lady
Ogilvie, Mrs. F. Menteith
Oldham, C.
Oliver, A. M.
Paré, Robert
Patmore, Capt. F. J.
Penrice, G. W.
Percival, A. Blayney
Percy, Lord William
Phisalix, Mme. M.
Phillips, Capt. W. W. A.
Pilsbry, Dr. H. A.
ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
Pitt-Taylor, Colonel
Pomeroy, J.
Power, Bro. G. H.
Portal, Major Maurice
Pycraft, W. P:
Quick, Dr.H. HE:
Rao, Prof. C. R. Narayan
Rasmussen, Capt. J.
Renouf, L. P. W.
Ritchie, Dr. J.
Robinson, H. C.
Robinson, Romer
Robson, G. C.
Rothschild, Hon. N. Charles
Rothschild, Lord, F.R.s.
Ruthven, Dr. A. G.
Sabellum Trading Company
Sanders, E.
Scharff, Dr. R. F.
Scott, Mrs. Ross
Selous, Mrs. F. C.
Seltman, J. F. G.
Sendall, Lady
Sharpe, Sir A., K.c.M.4.
Shaw, Rev. A.
Sheringham, H. T.
Sheppard, T.
Shidlovsky, Dr. :
Shroff, K. D.
Smart, Commander, R.N.
Smedley, A. 8S. Marsden
Smith, A.
Smith, Dr. H. Hammond
Smith, Dr. Malcolm
Someren, Dr. R. van
Someren, Dr. V. G. L. van
Spence, G. C.
Stallard, G.
~Sterki, Dr. V:
Stevenson-Hamilton, Major
Stiebel, Major H. C.
Swinny, H. H.
Taylor, F.
Taylor, Capt. F. W.
Taylor, J. W.
Taylor, W. T.
Taunton, W. K.
Telegraph Companies,
and Associated
Tervueren, Congo Museum
Hastern
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Thomas, Oldfield, F.R.s. Wellcome Bureau of Scientific
Thompson, H. Research
Thompson, Major W. A. Wells, F. E.
Thomson, R. M. Willis, C. A.
Totton, Capt. A. K., M.c. Whatman, Mrs.
Walton, Mrs. Whyte, Capt. H. W.
Ward Bequest, Trustees of the Woodward, B. B.
Rowland Woolward, Miss F.
Ward, Rowland, Ltd. Worssam, Lieut. Cecil
Waterston, Capt. J. Young, G. S.
Washington, D.C., National Zoological Society of London
Museum Zoological Survey of India
VI.— Economic Zoology.
I. Mammatta. |
The Falkland Islands Committee, on which the Museum was
represented by the Keeper, has completed its labours. The Report,
which deals specially with the Whaling problem and the protection
of Elephant Seals, is ready for publication.
Whaling and Sealing operations in the Southern Hemisphere,
particularly off South Georgia, the South Shetlands and South
Africa, have continued to receive much attention, and have formed
the subject of frequent communications with the Colonial Office.
The acclimatization of animals, and specially the Reindeer, in South
Georgia, has also given rise to a good deal of correspondence with
the same Government Department.
The protection of Mammals in various parts of the world has
received consideration. The threatened extermination of the
Elephants in the Addo Bush near Port Elizabeth—practically the
last remnant of the elephants of Cape Colony—has led to the
passage of a number of letters between the Museum and various
writers.
During 1919, rats and mice, in relation to the public health and
general economics, have again received much attention. Information
- and advice have been given in response to requests received from
many public bodies and private individuals. In July Mr. M. A. C.
Hinton, as the delegate of the Museum, attended the Congress of the
Royal Sanitary Institute at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, where the rat and
mouse problem was discussed from various points of view.
Il. Aves.
The protection of Birds in British Colonies and Protectorates has
continued to be the subject of communications with the Colonial
Office.
The special exhibit of Birds Beneficial to Agriculture has been
completed and:a guide-book has been issued.
III. Pusoxs.
Throughout the year Mr. Regan has served on the Freshwater
Fish Committee, and he also acted as secretary of a committee
116 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
formed by the British Science Guild to consider scientific research
in relation to fisheries. At the request of the R.A.M.C. officer in
charge of Anti-Malaria work at Sheppey, Mr. Regan went to
Sheppey on March 5th to inspect the marshes and advise with regard
to fishes that eat mosquito larvee.
In connexion with enquiries from the Colonial Office as to
poisonous Fishes in the West Indies, arrangements have been made
for Mr. P. Lechmere Guppy to collect for the Museum, in order
that fishes reputed poisonous may be accurately determined.
IV. Mo.uuusca.
Advice has been given on the following subjects :—Choking of
water-mains carrying sea-water, by mussels in a large power-station
at Portobello, N.B.
Means of determining Mollusca that are recognised as inter-
mediate hosts of Bilharzia (many enquiries). Determination of
Mollusca suspected of transmitting Fasciola hepatica (Liver Fluke)
in North Rhodesia and of Bilharzia on the Gold Coast.
Determination of Mollusca habitually eaten by Australian and
New Zealand food-fishes.
Following on an enquiry from the Chief Engineer of the
Metropolitan Water Board, investigations were made on the subject
of the ‘‘ Dreissensia’”’ nuisance in waterworks, on remedial measures,
and on means of prevention. The fresh water molluse Dreissensia
polymorpha frequently gives rise to serious trouble in waterworks by
causing obstruction in the supply-system, and by pollution due to
death and decay of the animals. The area of distribution of this
prolific mollusc has been extending during the last fifty years, and
the trouble arising from its presence in waterworks may tend to
increase rather than diminish unless due precautions are taken.
V. ARACHNIDA.
1. Mites from domestic animals, especially poultry, determined
for the United States Bureau of Agriculture.
2. A mite (Actineda vitis) feeding on aphides, especially woolly
aphis, determined.
3. An alleged poisonous spider (Lathrodectus mactans, var.)
named for the Wellcome Bureau of Scientific Research.
4. A species of “Red Spider” (Paratetranychus simplex)
damaging date-palms in Mesopotamia, described.
5. ‘Red Spiders ”’ injurious to peaches, vines, etc., named for
a correspondent.
6. A species of mite of the genus Tarsonemus, supposed to
damage ferns, determined.
VI.. CRUSTACEA.
The Assistant in charge of Crustacea has been largely occupied
with the study of Marine Boring Animals (including Mollusca and
Worms as well as Crustacea) submitted for examination by the
Committee of the Institution of Civil Engineers on the Deterioration
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of Structures exposed to Sea-action. An exhibit illustrative of this
subject has been arranged in one of the cases in the Central Hall ;
and a pamphlet, forming No. 10 of the “‘ Economic Series,” has
been published.
VII. PLATYHELMINTHES AND NEMATHELMINTHES,
On numerous occasions parasitic worms inhabiting man or other
animals have been named for correspondents, and more particularly
at the request of the Imperial Bureau of Entomology, for corres-
pondents abroad.
Enquiries on the subject of parasitic worms aes also been
answered for the Queen’s Hospital for Children, Hackney, and for
the Infant Welfare Centre, Southall, as well as enquiries from
private correspondents.
VIII. Hyprozoa.
On the question of the “‘Sea Moss” Fishery a correspondence
has passed between a member of the Trade and the Museum, with a
view to expanding the industry in home waters.
IX. Porirera.
Enquiries concerning the economics of Sponge-cultivation in the
West Indies (Bahamas, Turks Islands, and Virgin Isles) were made,
and samples of commercial sponges were named and reported on
from the point of view of their suitability for exploitation.
VIIl.—Students and Visitors.
The number of visits paid to the Zoological Department during
the year 1919 by Students and other persons requiring assistance or
information amounted to 7,459. This number includes the visits
paid by Students holding tickets entitling them to do special work
in the Exhibition Galleries.
In the 10 previous years the numbers were as follows. From
1909 to 1912 inclusive the present Department of Entomology was
included in the Department of Zoology :—
5,553 in the year 1918.
6,314 a 1917.
7,018 “3 1916.
8,020 ¥ 1915.
9,235 % 1914.
9,982 ‘ 1913.
12,564 st 1912.
12,175 # 1911.
12,443 i 1910.
11,461 a 1909.
Sidney F. Harmer.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENTOMOLOGY.
I. Arrangements and Conservation.
Exhibition Series—The revision of the series of economic
specimens exhibited in the North Hall has been continued and an
exhibit dealing with lac and wax has been added. Owing to the
evaporation of the spirit, several of the jars containing preparations
in spirit have had to be refilled, and where necessary re-sealed ; 52
jars in the economic series and 22 in the Insect gallery have thus
been dealt with.
Study Series—The Department is, as in former years, greatly
indebted for the assistance of voluntary workers in the identification
of species and in the arrangement of certain parts of the collections.
During the course of the year the members of the staff absent on
War Service returned to duty at varying intervals and_ the
arrangement and incorporation of specimens in the sections for
which they are severally responsible much more nearly approach
pre-war conditions.
In the Coleoptera the expansion and re-arrangement of the
Carabidee have been continued, Mr. H. E. Andrewes having, as on
many former occasions, rendered valuable help in the determination
and description of new species of Oriental genera. The greater
part of the Central American (Godman-Salvin) Collection has been
incorporated. The large collection of Hawaiian Ptinidee formed
and named by Dr, Perkins has been incorporated. The re-arrange-
ment of the Endomychidz has been completed and many new genera
and species described. Many species of Melolonthide, including
various important pests of crops have been worked out and described.
The.Brenthidee of Madagascar have been sent for determination to
M. Pouillaude. The re-arrangement of the Phytophaga has been
continued, the Cryptocephalinze having been completed, and the
Halticinze begun, all types of the latter having been incorporated.
Mr. G. E. Bryant has again generously placed his services at
the disposal of the Department for this purpose. The family
Pythidee has been revised and new genera and species described,
and revisions of various genera, including Cestrinus, Cissites,
Palestra, &c., have been prepared. The extensive collection of
Heteromera made and presented by Mr. G. E. Bryant has been
determined and in great part incorporated, as has a part of the
Nevinson Collection and numerous smaller collections from various
regions, particularly from M. Vitalis de Salvaza from Indo-China,
and from Prof. C. F. Baker, from the Philippine Islands. Mr.
G. C. Champion has continued. work on the Malacodermata, and
re-arranged and incorporated material in those groups which he has
studied.
In the Lepidoptera Rhopalocera the re-arrangement of the
Hesperide has been continued and all accessions, especially the
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Godman-Salvin Collection, incorporated. A certain amount of
work of the same kind has been done on the Erycinide. Mis-
cellaneous collections, small and large, have been worked out and
incorporated ; in this connection mention may be made of the
Wickham, Godfrey, Avinoff, Rybot, Phillips, and Selous collections,
while a final selection has been made from the papered specimens
of the Neave Collection for setting. In addition the arrangement
of the duplicate collections has been overhauled, named and made
more accessible, while a systematic card catalogue and index has
been started for the Hesperide.
In the Heterocera the Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phaleenze le
ment, Volume II, has been passed through the press (except the
indices). In the Catalogue of Noctuidee work has been continued on
the sub-family Hypeninze, while in the Pyralidee the classification of
the Anerastianze has been continued and is approaching completion.
In the Tineina the determination and arrangement of unincor-
porated material belonging to various families has been continued, .
the whole of the Dodd Collection from Queensland has been
mounted up and types and typical specimens have been identified
and labelled. A great part of the Doubleday Collection has also
been transferred to the standard Museum Cabinets.
In the Diptera a large number of Nematocera, chiefly British,
have been mounted and labelled. The collection of British Culicidee
has been expanded, recent accessions being incorporated, and the
same has been done with a large part of the British Chironomide,
while numerous collections of mosquitoes from various sources, have
been determined. A handbook of the British Mosquitoes is on its
way through the press. The undetermined Psychodidee have been
lent to M. A. Tonnoir, of Brussels, and the African Tipulide to Mr.
C. P. Alexander, of Urbana, Illinois. The Tabanidee of Palestine
have been worked out, described, and incorporated ; the Tabanide
ot the Perey Sladen Trust Expedition to the Western Indian Ocean
have been similarly dealt with. Dipterous material from various
localities has been determined and incorporated. Large series of
Tropical African Tachinidee and Ortalidee, have also been incorpor-
ated, while, preparatory to a revision of the Museum Pamphlet,
“The House-Fly as a Danger to Health,” for a new edition, the
Musca domestica group in the General collection of Diptera has been
worked at; previous determinations were revised, and much fresh
material determined and incorporated.
The undermentioned Museum Pamphlets were revised and the
revisions seen through the press.
‘Special Guide No. 7. Guide to the Specimens and Enlarged
Models of Insects and Ticks exhibited in the Central Hall, illustrating
their importance in the Spread of Disease.” (2nd edition).
‘Instructions for Collectors, No. 5—Diptera (Two-Winged
Flies.”) (4th edition).
‘‘ Instructions for Collectors, No. 6—Culicide.”
120 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
In the Hymenoptera Mr. R. E. Turner has again devoted his
whole time to the work of the Department, and has continued his
re-arrangement of the Braconidz. Numerous collections have been
determined and incorporated, in especial collections from Upper
Mekong, Palestine, and Tonkin, while the Australian Ichneumonidze
belonging to the genus Labiwm, have been revised. The Rev.
F. D. Morice has continued the re-arrangement of the Tenthredinida,
all the African species now being incorporated, and the whole group
arranged according to the ‘‘Genera Insectorum.” Mr. J. Waterston
has continued his work on the Chalcidide.
In the Rhynchota large additions of Heteroptera and Homoptera
from Indo-China, India, and New Caledonia, and Cicadide from
the Belgian Congo Region and British Central Africa, have been
identified, incorporated, and described when new. The incorporation
of the Distant Collection has been continued and brought nearly to
completion. Large additions have also been made to the collections
of Aphid and Coccide, and the re-arrangement of the latter
group begun. .
In the Neuroptera and Orthoptera many identifications have heen
made and types compared, for enquirers.
IMPERIAL BurEAU oF HENTOMOLOGY.
The work of the Imperial Bureau of Entomology has continued,
as in past years, to be carried on to a great extent in the Entomo-
logical Department, and with considerable advantage to both. With
the return to normal conditions after the war, the need of additional
space to afford sufficient accommodation for the staffs of both the
Imperial Bureau and the Department of Entomology, has again
become very pressing.
Il. Duplicates and Exchanges.
(a). Duplicates.
Duplicates have been presented to the following institution :—
The Royal Scottish Museum. Duplicates have also been presented
_to the following gentlemen, who have rendered service by naming
specimens :—Mr,. H. E. Andrewes ; Dr. Malcolm Cameron ; Dr. R.
Jeannel ; Lieut. R. Ley ; and Col. Winn Sampson.
(6). EHachanges.
Exchanges have been made with the following museum and
individuals :—The Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge ;
and with Mr. G. Arnold; M. G. Babault ; M. A. Boucomont ;
M. A. Bourgoin; Mr. P. Preston Clark; Dr. F. H. Gravely ;
M. Maurice Pic ; Lord Rothschild ; and Mr. W. R. Sherrin.
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II. Departmental Library.
As the Library has continued to be worked in conjunction with
that of the Zoological Department, particulars in reference to it
will be found included under the corresponding head, in the return
made by the Keeper of Zoology.
1IV.. Publications.
In addition to the official publications issued by the Trustees
(see pp. 84, 85), the following papers have been published in
connection with the different branches of the collection.
By G. J. Arrow:—“A remarkable new Ball-rolling Beetle
(Fam. Scarabeeide).”—Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. (9) ili, pp.
433-435.
““Systematic Notes on a few Melolonthine Coleoptera.”—ZJ/b.
(9) iv, pp. 21-29.
‘“Notes on Ruteline Coleoptera and Descriptions of a few New
Species in the British Museum.”—Jb., pp. 379-385.
By K. G. Blair :—‘‘ Coleoptera Heteromera, collected in
Korinchi, West Sumatra, by Messrs. H. C. Robinson and C. Boden
Kloss. 2 ike (oe Fed. Malay States Museums, viii.
“«Synonymic Note.”—Ent. Mon. Mag. (3) v, pp. 101-103.
‘Notes on the Pythide, with descriptions of New Species.’”’—
Ib., pp. 112-124.
‘Some Notes on Cetonia aurata.”—Ib., pp. 200-203.
By G. C. Champion :—‘“‘ Notes on various Species of the Genus
Chalchas, Blanch.” —Ent. Mon. Mag. (3) v, pp. 1-3.
The Malacoderm Genera Prionoeents and Idgia, sed their
Sexual Characters [Coleoptera ].”’—Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. (9)
il, pp. 325-372.
“Notes on the African and Asiatic Species of Melyris, Fab.
(sensu lato), with an account of their Sexual Characters.” —Jb. (9)
iv, pp. 157-219.
By Sir G. F. Hampson :—* A Classification of the Aigeriadze
of the Oriental and Adthiopian Regions.”—Nov. Zool. xxvi, pp.
46-119.
“ Descriptions of new Pyralide of the Families Crambine and
Sigine.”—Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. (9) iii, pp. 275-292 ; 437-
475 ; 533-547 ; Ib. (9), iv, pp. 53-68 ; 137-154 ; 305-326.
By F. W. Edwards :—‘“ Diptera collected in Korinchi, West
Sumatra, by Messrs. H. C. Robinson, and C. ee Kloss ”—Jour.
Fed. Malay States Museum, viii.
“‘ A note on the Ege-burster of Eucephalous Fly-lar vee ”’—Ann.
and Mag. Nat. Hist. (9) ili, p. 372—“Some~ Parthenogenetic
Chironomidee ”—J 6. (9) iii, p. 229,
“The Larva and Pupa of Teniorhynchus richiardii Fic.”—Ent.
Mon. Mag. (3) v, p. 83—“A new British Heteropezine Fly ”°—/h>.,
pots.
“ Gnophomyia tripudians, Bergr., a new British Fly ’—/b.,
pe 176:
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By EH. EH. Austen :—‘ Anti-Mosquito Measures in Palestine,
during the Campaigns of 1917-1918.’—Trans. Soc. Trop. Med. and
Hygiene xiii, 1919, pp. 47-60.
By W. L. Distant :—‘‘ The Heteroptera of Indo-China.”—The
Entomologist, Jan., July, Sept. 1919.
‘* Description of a New Genus and Species of Cicadidee.”—Ann.
and Mag. Nat. Hist. (9) iti, p. 43.
““On a New Species of Heteroptera, Fam. Pyrrhocoride.”—/b.,
p. 218.
‘¢ Hthiopian Heteroptera (Reduviide).’—Jb., p. 466.
‘“‘ British Indian Reduviidee.”—J/b, (9) iv, p. 71.
“‘ Cicadidee from Tropical Africa.” —Jb., p. 136.
“‘ Hthiopian Cicadide.”’—Rey. Zoolog. Africain, vii, p. 155.
‘“A New Lygeid Bug found amongst Stored Rice in Java.’”’—
Bull. Ent. Research x, p. 41.
By R. HE. Turner :—‘‘ On the Hymenoptera collected in New
Caledonia by P. W. Montague in 1914.”—Ann. and Mag. Nat.
Hist. (9) iii, pp. 229-239.
‘Notes on Fossorial Hymenoptera, XXXVII. On _ some
Sphecine in the British Museum.” —Tb., pp. 393-397. “XXXVIII.
On New Ethiopian Species.” —Jb., (9) iv, pp. 44-50. “ XX XIX.
New Sphecoidea collected in Palestine by Major E. E. Austen.”
Lb., pp. 69-70.
‘‘ New Australian Diplopterous Hymenoptera.”—ZJb. (9) iii, pp.
398-399.
“On Indo-Chinese Hymenoptera collected by R. Vitalis de
Salvaza.”—J/b., pp. 425-433, 483-487. Jb. (9) iv, 385-395.
‘Notes on the Ichneumonide in the British Museum.”’—/b.
(9) ii, pp. 550-558. Lb. (9) iv, pp. 36-44.
By the Rev. F. D. Morice :—‘‘ Notes on Australian Sawflies,
especially the “ Authors’ Types,” and other specimens in the British
Museum Natural History and the Hope Collection of the Oxford
University Museum, with diagnostic Synopses of the Genera and
Species, and photographs illustrating their structural characters.” —
Trans. Ent. Soc., London, 1919, pp. 247-333.
V.— Acquisitions.
The number of specimens added to the Insect Collection during
the year is 154,244, made up as shown in the following table :—
Donations. | Purchases. | Exchanges. | Totals.
Coleoptera... ... ws. v. 73,540 1,000 293 74,833
Lepidoptera ... ... ... 32,004 — | 221 32,225
Hymenoptera ... ... «.. 7,526 3,532 33 11,091
IDIptera —-sie. aes. ee oes 20,187 — — 20,187
Rihynchota, © sc. r.< © 5.5 5,968 4,000 105 10,073
Orthoptera ... ... 500 - — = 500
Neuroptera ... ... 200 — — 200
Other Orders ... ... ... 532 — -— 582
Larve, Pupe, &e. ... ... 4,603 = — 4,603
Totals ... 145,060 8,532 652 154,244
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The most important of these accessions are the following :—
From various localities.
52,749 Insects, comprising 4,801 Lepidoptera, and 47,298
Coleoptera, from Britain and Rhodesia, collected by the late Mr.
Hereward C. Dollman ; presented by J. C. Dollman, Esq.
19,000 Lepidoptera, chiefly from Brazil; presented by E.
Dukinjield-Jones, Esq. |
16,975 specimens, mainly Coleoptera, chiefly Oriental and
Anstralian ; ; presented by G. #. Bryant, Esq.
9,158 specimens of various orders ; presented by the Imperial
Buren of Entomology.
4,284 Hymenoptera, being the collection of the late Dr. Harold
Swale ; presented by Mrs. Harold Swale.
it 313 specimens of various orders, chiefly from Britain and
Algeria ; presented by Lord Rothschild.
492 specimens, mainly Lepidoptera, chiefly from the Cameroons;
presented by Capt. I. H. FitzRoy.
156 specimens of various orders ; presented by Capt. H. W.
W hyte.
The ninth instalment of the Distant Collection, containing 4,000
specimens of Rhynchota, and 1,000 Coleoptera.
The Waterhouse Collection of Mymaride (Hymenoptera)
containing 3,532 specimens. ;
From Europe.
9,382 British insects, chiefly Diptera; presented by F. C.
Adams, Esq.
4,282 British Diptera ; presented by F. W. Edwards, Esq.
3,463 British Homoptera, set, named, and systematically
arranged ; presented by W. West, Esq.
350 Lepidoptera from Macedonia ; presented by W. Blanchard,
Esq.
249 specimens of British Insects ; presented by G. C. Champion,
sq.
190 British Diptera ; presented by W. R. Ogilvie-Grant, Esq.
162 European Coleoptera ; presented by Dr. Rk. Jeannel.
From Asia.
2,109 specimens of various orders collected in Palestine and Mt.
Sinai by the donor ; presented by Major HE. E. Austen, D.S.O.
1,417 specimens of various orders from Mesopotamia ; presented
by Mrs. R. Brewitt- Taylor.
634 Lepidoptera from Asia Minor ; presented by Capt. W. W. A.
Phillips.
501 Coleoptera from Borneo, Singapore, and Philippine Islands ;
presented by Prof. C. F. Baker.
447 Lepidoptera from Asia Minor ; presented by Major N. V. L.
Rybot, D.S.O.
188 Coleoptera from Sikkim ; wed ores by H. Stevens, Hsq.
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162 specimens of various orders from Syria and Palestine ;
presented by Col. E. P. Sewelt, C.M.G., D.S.0., R.A.MLC.
From Africa.
538 Lepidoptera from the Gold Coast; presented by Capt.
J. W. G. Saunders.
251 specimens of various orders from Nigeria; presented by
Lady Strathcona.
230 Coleoptera from Uganda ; presented by Prof. HE. B. Poulton.
From Australasia.
266 specimens of various orders from New Zealand ; presented
by A. E. Brookes, Esq.
260 Coleoptera from Australia, Norfolk Island, and Lord Howe
Island ; presented by the S. Australian Museum.
VI.—Economic Entomology.
Enquiries on matters of importance from an economic point of
view have continued to come in and in increasing numbers. Signs
are evident that as the public become more fully aware of the
facilities that are provided for them, this side of museum work
will become increasingly important. The homeland and the colonies
and possessions have taken advantage of these facilities. During
the year the instructions for the collection of mosquitoes have been
revised, and the pamphlet dealing with the Housefly has been in
great part re-written, while work in connection with the investiga-
tion of insect pests of grain (Royal Society War Committee) has
been continued.
Amongst the subjects on which information or advice has
been sought and as far as possible given, the following may be
mentioned :—
COLEOPTERA.
(1) Heterobostrychus equalis Waterh.: larvee burrowing in
the sides of a wooden box.
(2) Lyctus brunneus causing frequent damage to furniture.
(3) Anobium striatum damaging antique furniture, and other
species of Anobiwm boring in wood—numerous enquiries.
(4) Carpophilus hemipterus Cr. breeding in dates in a grocer’s
shop.
(5) Ptinus tectus Boield, infesting a grocer’s shop. The
source of infestation was traced to dog biscuits.
(6) Sitodrepa panicea, breeding freely in dry soup pre-
parations.
(7) Mezium affine breeding in macaroni.
(8) Dermestes vulpinus’ F., and Necrobia rufipes De G.,
damaging wrappings of goods from the Argentine, and
then the goods themselves.
(9) Ptinus sexpunctatus Pz., damaging lead on the roof of
a house.
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(10) Tetropium gabrieli, perforating lead lined wooden vats.
(11) Wireworms.
(12) Phyllopertha horticola L., constituting a plague in several
parts of the country.
(13) Apoderus coryli Oliv., rendering the leaves of Hazel trees
unsightly in a garden suburb.
(14) Psylliodes affinis injuring potato leaves.
(15) Hylastes, palliatus Gyll., and Tomicus laricis Fabr.,
damaging Scots pine.
(16) Xyleborus saxeseni Ratz., and Platypus cylindrus Fabr.,
boring in Chestnut trees.
(17) Anthrenus pimpinelle Fabr., larvee attacking the long
cloth upholstery of a motor car and ruining it.
LEPIDOPTERA.
(18) Hepialus lupulinus caterpillars feeding on the roots of
Iris and other garden plants.
(19) Lycia hirtaria—caterpillars in very large numbers in
various districts in and near London.
(20) Caterpillars of Clistocampa neustria Linn., and Hybernia
defoliaria, damaging Cherry trees.
(21) Tortrix viridana: complaints as to the damage to Oak
trees caused by the caterpillars of this moth received
from all over the country.
(22) Larvee of Borkhausenia pseudospretella Stn., found in
bedding.
(23) Clothes moths—the usual yearly budget.
HYMENOPTERA.
(24) Pteromalus deplanatus Nees. A very large amount of
correspondence has been entailed through the annoyance
which this insect causes by its presence in great numbers
in houses during the winter.
(25) Cremastogaster gerbonensis Emery, doing very great damage
to cocoa plantations in West Africa.
(26) Phymatocera aterrima—larve seriously injuring the
leaves of Solomon’s Seal.
(27) Sirex gigas, S. cyaneus, and 8S. noctilio: Numerous
enquiries regarding these species have been dealt with.
(28) Bees and bee-culture—literature on the subject.
OTHER ORDERS.
(29) A species of Thrips has been causing very great damage to
cocoa plantations in Uganda.
(30) Aspidiotus destructor Sign., devastating the foliage of
cocoanut palms in Belgian Congo.
(31) Chlorita flavescens seriously injuring the leaves of apple
trees in different districts.
(32) Myzus ribis and Schizoneura fodiens damaging currants in
a large garden.
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ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
Phorodon humuli Schr. information as to the effect of
weather on its multiplication.
Cockroaches—methods of extermination—the usual bulky
correspondence.
Linognathus piliferus (Burm.), a louse infesting a dog.
MISCELLANEOUS.
(36)
The common names in French and Spanish of certain
insects of economic importance—for trade catalogues.
Lepidopterous larvee in sauce. .
Corks of champagne bottles being damaged.
Locusts, their control in Borneo and elsewhere.
The pollination of Scarlet Runners by humble bees.
The parasites of the furniture beetle and the possibility of
introducing them into New Zealand.
Shellac, methods of production, habits and life history of
the Lac Insect (two enquiries).
Sericulture, its possibility of introduction into Britain, &.
Insects in drinking water as an index of its contamination.
Mites on pear and walnut trees.
VII.—Students and Visitors.
The number of visits paid to the department during the year by
students and other persons seeking information or assistance was
3,306.
C. J. Gahan.
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DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY.
I.—Arrangement and Conservation.
Mammalia (Galleries 1 and 2).—The unexhibited collection of
Primates and Carnivora in the drawers of table-cases 2, 2a, has been
arranged and labelled to incorporate recent acquisitions.
The rostra of Ziphioid whales have been arranged and labelled
in pier-case 4.
Number of specimens of Mammalia registered, 27.
Aves (Gallery 2).—Bones of birds from a cavern near Chud-
leigh, Devon, have been labelled and incorporated.
Number of specimens of Aves registered, 41.
Reptilia and Batrachia (Galleries 3, 4, 5, 11).—The arrange-
ment and labelling of the Anomodontia exhibited in wall-case 10
have been completed.
A large collection of Chelonian remains from Mauritius has been
labelled and incorporated, and a slip-catalogue of the whole collec-
tion of Chelonia has been prepared.
The large skeleton of Jchthyosaurus platyodon, from the Lias of
Stockton, has been repaired and so far as possible freed from decay-
ing pyrites.
Number of specimens of Reptilia and Batrachia registered, 241.
Pisces (Gallery 6).—Wall-cases 1, 2, containing Elasmobranchii,
have been renovated, with many new labels, and several skulls of
Hybodus, from the Wealden of Sussex, have been added to the
exhibited collection.
The collection of Palaeozoic Elasmobranchii has been revised and
partly re-labelled, and the specimens exhibited in the table-cases 2,
3, 4 have been re-arranged.
Various Tertiary Fishes and Jurassic Fishes from Australia
have been labelled and incorporated.
The preparation of the fish-remains in drawers, to reduce the
specimens in size, is still in progress.
Number of specimens of Pisces registered, 229.
Mollusca (Galleries 7 and 8, and Workroom).—The determina-
tion of the Hocene Mollusca from Nigeria has been continued, and
various small collections of Tertiary and Cretaceous Mollusca from
other localities, offered as gifts, have been reported on.
Tertiary Lamellibranchia and Gastropoda from Hgypt have been
labelled and incorporated.
Triassic Ammonites from Bosnia have been arranged and pre
pared for study.
The Cephalopoda registered, labelled and incorporated, include :
Carboniferous Nautiloids and Permian Ammonoids from Malay
Peninsula (Scrivenor coll.) ; a Carboniferous Goniatite, Glyphioceras
diadema, from Belgium, figured by A. Vaughan, 1915, Quart.
Journ. Geol. Soe., vol. Ixxi, pl. v., £. 6 (Vaughan coll.) ; Liassic
128 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
Ammonites from Somerset (Méckler coll.), and from Dorset des-
eribed and figured by A. EH. Trueman, 1919, Q.J.G.S., vol. Ixxv
(W. D. Lang coll.) ; Upper Jurassic Ammonoids from the Balearic
Islands (D. M. A. Bate coll.) ; Cretaceous Ammonoids and Nauti-
loids from Aston Rowant, Oxon. (Withers coll.) ; a Cretaceous
Nautiloid from Egypt (Dudgeon coll.) ; Eocene Nautili from Essex
(Hazzledine Warren coll.) ; Miocene Nautiloids from Malta (J. C.
Walton coll.).
A Triassic Ammonite, Discophyllites cf. ebneri, from New
Zealand, described by C. T. Trechmann, 1917, Quart. Journ. Geol.
Soc., vol. Ixxiil, p. 184, pl. xvii, fig. 7, (Trechmann coll.) ; and
a Nautilus from the Chalk Rock of Aston Rowant, have been
mounted and exhibited in wall-cases 12 and 2.
Number of Mollusca registered :—Cephalopoda, 294; Gast-
ropoda, 779 ; Lamellibranchia, 616. Total, 1,689.
Arthropoda (Gallery 8 and Workroom).—The acquisitions
registered, labelled, and incorporated include Lower Silurian
Ostracods from Horderley, Salop (Bather coll.) ; Silurian Anatzfopsis
from Otisville, N.Y.; Coal Measures Xiphosura and other arthropods
from Rochdale, Lancs. (Sutcliffe coll.) ; Cretaceous crabs from
Dakota (Over coll.) ; Decapods from the London Clay of Essex
(Hazzledine Warren coll.).
The registration of the Insects in Amber and Gum Copal,
transferred from the Zoological Dept., has been completed. The
Insects from Gurnet Bay have been partly re-arranged as their
study progresses.
Insects from the Carboniferous, Rhaetic, and Lower Hocene,
and the fossil Millipedes, have been checked and re-registered where
necessary, in connection with loans to specialists for determination.
An insect wing, the type of Hypermegethes northumbrie, Bolton,
(Eltringham don.), and the type-specimens of the Xiphosura,
Euproéps amie and Belinurus trechmanni, have been placed on
exhibition.
Additions have been made to the exhibited series of Cirripedia
and of Cambrian Trilobites. .
The slip-catalogues of exhibited specimens, of amber insects,
of new genera, and of various additions, have been continued.
Number of specimens of Arthropoda registered, 595.
Echinoderma (Gallery 8).—The acquisitions registered, labelled,
and incorporated include squeezes of Ordovician Cystids from
Girvan ; Cystids from the Devonian of Virginia (Greger coll.) ;
Carboniferous Crinoids from the Morrow Group of Oklahoma, and
the Chouteau Limestone and Fern Glen formation of Missouri
(Greger coll.) ; Eugeniacrinids from the Portlandian of Stramberg
(Trechmann coll.) ; Balanocrinus from the London Clay of Essex
(Hazzledine Warren coll.) ; Blastoids from the Morrow Group of
Oklahoma and the Burlington Limestone of Illinois (Greger coll.) ;
Asteroids from the Devonian of Bundenbach and North Devon ;
Jurassic Echinoids from various European localities (T. Wright
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coll.) ; a large series of Collyrites and other Hchinoids from the
Oxford Clay of St. Ives (Jesson coll.) ; Echinoids from the Cretace-
ous of Kastern England (Bower coll.) ; Fibularia from the Eocene
of Nigeria, described by H. L. Hawkins (Kitson coll.) ; Echinoids
from the Lenham beds, described by R. B. Newton (Prestwich and
Wallas colls.).
The slip-catalogues of specimens studied or exhibited, of all
genera and species of other classes, have been continued.
Number of specimens of Echinoderma registered :—Hchinoidea,
394 ; Asteroidea, 11; Crinoidea, 300; Blastoidea, 31 ; Cystoidea,
206 ; Total, 942.
Annelida (Gallery 8 and Workroom).—Specimens of “ Zerebella
cancellata”’ from the Hocene near St. Omer (Lowe coll.), and the
Chalk Rock near Aston Rowant (Withers coll.), have been labelled
and incorporated.
Number of Annelida registered, 15.
Brachopoda (Gallery 8 and Workroom).—The collection of
Carboniferous Brachiopoda has been revised and rearranged, and a
new selection has been arranged for exhibition, with printed labels,
in table-case 18.
Number of specimens of Brachiopoda registered, 176.
Polyzoa (Gallery 8 and Workroom).—Progress has been made
with determining and cataloguing the Cretaceous Polyzoa.
Number of specimens of Polyzoa registered, 82.
Anthozou and Hydrozoa (Gallery 10 and Workroom).—Carboni-
ferous Corals from the A. Vaughan collection have been registered,
labelled, and incorporated.
Number of specimens of Anthozoa and Hydrozoa registered, 47.
Porifera and Protozoa (Gallery 10).—Specimens from the G. J.
Hinde collection have been registered, labelled, and incorporated.
Number of specimens of Porifera and Protozoa registered, 116.
Plante (Gallery 10).—Cretaceous plants from Dakota, U.S.A.,
and Tertiary plants from the Arctic regions have been examined,
labelled, and incorporated in the collection.
Sections have been made of fossil wood from Kerguelen Island
for study and determination.
A selection of the Antarctic fossil plants has been exhibited, with
printed labels, in wall-case 14. An exhibition of Arctic Tertiary
plants has been planned in wall-case 10, which has been re-fitted.
Number of specimens of Plantze registered, 667.
Rock-specmens and Tracks (Gallery 11).—The unexhibited
specimens of rocks and tracks have been arranged in drawers, and a
slip-catalogue of the collection has been made.
Number of specimens of rocks and tracks registered, 131.
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130 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
I1.—Duplicates and Hachanges.
Duplicate fossils have been presented to the Geological Museum,
University of Liverpool, and to the University Museum, Oxford.
Exchanges of duplicate fossils and plaster casts have been made
with the Zoological Museum, University of Cambridge, and with
Mr. W. H. Over, University of South Dakota, U.S.A.
L1.— Departmental Library.
The additions to the Library which have been registered,
stamped, catalogued, and press-marked, comprise 132 new works
and pamphlets, of which 21 were purchased and 111 presented ;
316 parts of serials in progress, of which 107 were purchased, 168
presented, and 41 obtained through H.M. Stationery Office. 36
sheets of maps were acquired, 4 by purchase and 32 presented. 18
photographs were presented and 100 purchased. 7 original draw-
ings were presented and 3 volumes of manuscript were purchased.
15 volumes and pamphlets were obtained by transfer from other
Departments.
106 volumes have been bound, press-marked and returned to the
shelves. 675 geological maps have been mounted on linen and 72
pamphlets have been put into covers.
1,449 visits were made to the Library by students and others.
The following is a list of personal donors to the Library :—
Bather, Dr. F. A. Lang, Dr. W. D.
Bell, Prof. J. Newton, R. Bullen, Esq.
Broom, Dr. R. Osborn, Prof. H. F.
Butler, Mrs. . Pontier, G., Esq. '
Clarke, Dr. W. E. Pratt, Joseph H., Esq.
Dibley, G. E., Esq. Rendle, Dr. A. B.
Ellis, Dr. David. Richardson, L., Esq.
Etheridge, R., Esq., Jun. Sechuchert, Prof. C.
Falconer, Dr. J. D. Scott: Drebs He
Faura-y-Sans, Dr. M. Sherborn, C. Davies, Esq.
Flower, Capt. S. Springer, Frank, Esq.
Gregory, Prof. J. W. Stefanescu, Prof. 8.
Hayashi, Prof. T. Stopes, Dr. M. C.
Henderson, Dr. J. Thomas, H. H., Esq.
Hughes, G. R., Esq. | > Lomlin, J k., isa:
Hutton, Miss H. Mary. Windhausen, Dr. A.
Jackson, J. Wilfrid, Esq. Wintle, W. J., Esq.
Jongmans, Dr. W. J. Woodward, Dr. A. 8.
Keith, Sydney, Esq., F.R.P.S. Woodward, B. B., Esq.
Kennard, A. S., Esq. Woolnough, Dr. W. G.
Kilgour, W. Archer, Esq.
TV.—Publications.
The MS. of the third volume of the Catalogue of Cretaceous
Polyzoa has been completed, and progress has been made with the
Supplement to the Catalogue of Fossil Fishes.
DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY. diowe
Apart from the official publications of the Trustees, the follow-
ing descriptive papers dealing with different parts of the collection
have been contributed to scientific Journals during 1919 :—
By Dr. A. 8. Woopwarp.
1. Notes on the Fish-remains from the Pickwell Down Sand-
stones. Geol. Mag. (6), vol. 6, pp. 102, 103.
2. On two new Elasmobranch Fishes (Crossorhinus jurassicus,
sp. nov., and Protospinaz annectans, gen. et sp. nov.) from the
Upper Jurassic Lithographic Stone of Bavaria. Proc. Zool. Soc.
1918 (1919), pp. 231-235, pl. 1.
3. The Fossil Fishes of the English Wealden and Purbeck
Formations. Part iti, pp. 105-148, pls. xxi-xxvi. Palaeont. Soc.
By Dr. F. A. Baruer.
1. Notes on Yunnan Cystidea, part iii. Geol. Mag. (6),
vou vi, pp: 71-77; 110=115,. pl. i; pp. 255, 262, pl. vi, pp.
318-325.
2. Cupressocrinus gibber, n. sp., du Dévonien superieur de
Belgique. Bull. Soc. Belge Géol., etc., vol. xxviii, pp. 129-136.
3. The antiquity of parasitic disease. Geol. Mag. (6) vol. vi,
pp- 276, 277.
4. The distribution of ‘ Terebella”’ cancellata. Thbid., p. 466.
By Mr. R. B. Newton.
1. On Raetomya, a new genus of Pelecypoda, from the
Tertiary rocks of Hgypt and Southern Nigeria. Proc. Malac. Soc.
vol. xiii, pp. 79-84, pl. 1.
2. On a sandstone cast of Aturia aturi (Basterot), from the
Miocene of Western Australia. Proc. Malac. Soc., vol. xiii, pp.
160-167, pls. v, vi.
By Dr. W. D. Lana.
1. The Kelestominz : a Sub-family of Cretaceous Cribrimorph
Polyzoa. Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. Ixxiv, pp. 204-220.
2. The Evolution of Ammonites. Proc. Geol. Assoc., vol. xxx,
pp. 49-65.
3. Old Age and Extinction in Fossils. Ibid., pp. 102-113.
By Dr. B. PETRONIEVICS. ;
1. Note on the Pectoral Fin of Husthenopteron. Ann. Mag.
Nat. Hist. (9) vol. ii, pp. 471-476.
By Pror. T. D. A. CocKERELL.
1. The Oldest Mosquitoes. Nature, vol. cili, p. 44.
2. Insects in Burmese Amber. Entomologist, vol. lii, pp.
193-195, 241-243.
By Mr. H. BEKKER.
1. New Bryozoa from the Kuckers Stage in Esthonia. Ann.
Mag. Nat. Hist. (9) vol. iv, pp. 327-335, pl. vil.
132 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM,
v.
Acquisitions.
A.—By Donation.
Mammalia.n—A Sirenian tooth from the Hocene, Mokattam
quarries, Cairo. G. Foster Smith, Esq.
Three plaster casts of the dentition of AHyopotamus, from. the
Oligocene of Hempstead, I. of Wight. (C. Forster Cooper, Esq.
Natural cast of the brain of Antilope melonii ; portion of mandible
of Ovis ammon ; mandibular rami of Myolagus sardus ; plaster casts
of lower molar and premolar and the third right lower molar of
Ophthalmomegas lamormare, descr. and figd. by the donor in his
work, Matér. Hist. Zool. et Palaeont. Isles Corse et Sardaigne,
fasc. v (1914), p. 77, pl. u, fig. 4 ; all from a Pleistocene breccia at
Cape Figari, Sardinia. Mons. . G. Dehaut.
Portions of mandible and limb-bone of Hlephas, and two portions
of mandible of Rhinoceros, from a sandy deposit at Kandahar,
Afghanistan. Lieut.-Gen. H. H. Lyster. C.B., VC.
Tooth of Llephas from the marsh Karigeul, near Andremedi,
about 30 m. N.E. of Salonica. Capt. H. St. J. Kenny.
Portion of human mandible from the black mud in the Bor
district, Sudan. Major J. Stevenson-Hamilton.
Reptilia—A photograph of Jguanodon-footprint from the
Wealden of Bexhill. 7. C. Thompson Esq.
Two Chelonia from the London Clay of Essex. S. Hazzledine
Warren, Esq., F.G.S.
Chelonian bone from the Barton Clay. H. Eliot Walton, Ksq.
One Chelonia ovata from the Oligocene of Canton Glarus,
Switzerland, deser. and figd. by A. Wettstein, Fisch-fauna Tert.
Glarnerschief. ; Mem. Soc. Palaeont. Suisse, 1886, p. 93, pl. viii.,
fig. 7. Bequeathed by the Revd. F. St. John Thackeray, M.A.,
F.G.S., per Miss Thackeray.
Portions of skull, mandible and scutes of a Crocodile found by
the donor at Tel-el-Ahmar, Sinai. Mr. P. Stammuitz.
Pisces.—Fourteen fish-remains collected by the donor from the
Pickwell Down Sandstones, Woolacombe Bay, N. Devon ; noticed
by the donor and A. 8. Woodward, Geol. Mag., 1919, pp. 100-103.
Inkerman Rogers, Esq., F.GS.
Four Elasmobranch teeth from the Carboniferous Limestone of
the North of England. Prof. EH. J. Garwood, F.R.S.
Hight teeth of Lamnide from the Kentish Upper Greensand
and Chalk ; six teeth of Lamnidze from the Woolwich and Reading
Beds of Essex ; sixty teeth of Lamnide and other fish-remains from
the London Clay of Essex. S. Hazzledine Warren, Esq., F.G.S.
Two fish-remains from the Eocene, Mokattam quarries, Cairo.
G. Foster Smith, Esq. |
Ten Selachian teeth, five other fish-remains and a new Chimz-
roid mandibular tooth from the Barton Clay, Barton, Hants.
H. Elot Walton, Esq.
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Two slabs of fossil herrings from a diatomaceous deposit of
Tertiary age, 4 miles 8. of Lompoc, Santa Barbara Co., California.
F. L. Bosqui, Esq.
Mollusca.—Two Lamellibranchs from the base of the Llandovery,
near Hill End Farm, Horderley, Salop ; and one Tentaculite from
the top of the Wenlock shale, Lincoln Hill, Ironbridge, Salop.
Dr. F. A. Bather,' F RS.
Twelve Lamellibranchs from the Coal Measures (Low-Main
Seam), near Newcastle-on-Tyne. S. Hazzledine Warren, Esgq.,
P.G,.S.
Three Molluscs from Upper Carboniferous Ironstone nodules,
Coseley, Staffs. S. Priest, Esq., F.G.S.
An Ammonite (iscophyllites) from the Trias of Mount
Heslington, Nelson, New Zealand, descr. and figd. by the donor in
Quart. Journ. Geol, Soc., vol. Ixxiii (1918), p. 184, pl. xvii, fig. 7.
Dr. C. T. Trechmann, F.G.S.
Twenty Ammonites, two Nautili and five Belemnites from the
Lias of Somerset. F. J. Mockler, Esq.
Eleven Ammonites from the Charmouth Lias, namely, two
Coroniceras ; Oxynoticeras and Cymbites figured in the donor’s paper,
Proce. Geol. Assoc. vol. xxx, p. 108, fig. 20 (1919); the type-
specimen of dyoceras dedalicosta; a paratype specimen of
Liparoceras obtusinodum ; and five other Ammonites collected by the
donor and figured by A. ‘E. Trueman, Quart. Journ. Geol. Soce., vol.
Ixxiv (1919), pl. xx, fig. 4, pl. xxiii, figs. 3, 4, and text-figures 5,
6 and 13; anda specimen of Deroceras bispinigerum, of which the
suture-line is figured by 8. 8. Buckman, Quart. Journ. Geol. Soe.
vol. Ixxii (1918), p. 294. Dr. W. D. Lang, F.G.S.
Body-chamber of Ammonite (2ygoceras latwcosta), showing
malformation of shell due to injury of the soft parts, obtained by
the donor from the Lower Lias, Stonebarrow Cliff, Charmouth,
Dorset. Dr. W. T. Calman.
One Pholadomya from the Kimmeridge Clay (a derived fossil),
Yottenham, Cambs. 7’. H. Sherborn, Esq.
Mollusca from the Jurassic of central Arabia. 7. St. J. B.
Piitby. Esq: CLL TCS.
_ Hight portions of Jurassic Ammonites and two Cretaceous
famelhibranchs from Peru. W. FP. H. Rosenberg, Esq.
An Ammonite ar a) from the Tealby Limestone, North
Willingham, Lines. Prof. P. F. Kendall, F.GS.,
Two specimens of ‘Belmates minmus from the Red Chalk,
Millington Springs, near Pocklington. Revd. C. R. Bower.
A “Hippurite and four Ammonites from the Upper Greensand
and Chalk of Kent. S. Hazzledine Warren, Esq., F.GS.
Seven Belemnites from the Cenomanian of Liineberg, Hanover.
F. J..Mockler, Esq.
~ One Nautilus from the Chalk Rock of Aston Rowant, Oxon.
T. H. Withers, Esq., F.G.S.
134 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
Seven Lamellibranchs (Corbicula, &e.) from the Upper Cretaceous
(Fox Hills Group), Monarch, Alta., Canada. Mr. William E. Cutler,
FOG...
Twelve opalised fossils (mostly Molluscs) from the Upper
Cretaceous of New South Wales, deser. and figd., R. B. Newton,
Proc. Malac. Soc. London, vol. xi (1915), p. 217, pl. vi. Be-
queathed by the Revd. F. St. John Thackeray, M.A., F.GS., per
Miss Thackeray.
Twenty imprints of Lamellibranchs, apparently Cretaceous and
probably collected in India by R. B. Foote, being the collection of
the late Lieut. Henry N. Lechler. S. H. W. Foote, Esq.
A hundred and thirty fossils (Mollusca, Echinoidea, &e.) from
the Cretaceous and Tertiary rocks of Persia. Liew. B. K. N.
Wyllie, R.E., F.GS.
Two Nautili and two Lamellibranchs from the London Clay of
Essex. S. Hazzledine Warren, Esq., F.G.S.
Five valves of Ostrea multicostata associated with Nummulites
from the Lower Eocene of Locre, S.W. of Ypres, Flanders.
W. Campbell Smith, Esq., M.C., P.GS.
A valve of Ostrea from the Barton Clay. H. Eliot Walton, Esq.
An ostreiform shell from the Hocene, Mokattam quarries, Cairo.
G. Foster Smith, Esq.
Two chambers of a fossil Nautiloid from the Kharga Oasis,
Hgypt. Master John R. N.C. Dudgeon.
Four specimens of Aturia from the Miocene of Malta. Lieut.
J.C. Walton.
Mollusca from the Upper Phocene or Pleistocene deposits of
Taranto, Italy. James Wright, Esq. .
One Cardium from the Miocene of Jamacia. Miss Agnes Crum-
Hwing.
Tertiary Mollusca from near Jask, Persian Gulf. Lieut. B. K.
N. Wylhe, R.E., F.G.S., and Lneut. J. V. Harrison, R.E.
A piece of Tertiary rock with remains of a small species of
Cardita from between Bushire and Rushire, Persian Gulf. Ur. G.
Gadsdon.
Eight Molluscan shells from a Pleistocene deposit at Cape Figari,
Sardinia. Monsieur FE. G. Dehaut.
About three hundred Upper Tertiary and Recent Gastropoda
labelled by the donor. to illustrate his Monograph of the Pliocene
Mollusca of Great Britian, vol. i. F. W. Harmer, Esq., M.A.,
F..GS. |
About fifty Mollusca collected by the donor from a raised beach
in Peru. © Dri A. ‘Ol borbes.
Arthropoda.—Fourteen Ostracods (Leperditia) from the base of
the Llandovery near Hill End Farm, Horderley, Salop ; and six
Ostracoda and one Trilobite from the top of the Wenlock Shale,
Lincoln Hill, Ironbridge, Salop. Dr. F. A. Bather, FLRS.
Nine specimens of the supposed Arthropod (Anatijopsis wardellz)
from the Silurian, Longwood Shales, of Shawangunk Mts., Otisville,
New York. Director of the State Museum, New York.
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Twenty-seven Arthropods from the Upper Carboniferous, Iron-
stone nodules, Coseley, Staffs. S. Priest, Esq., F.G.S.
Two squeezes of the type-specimen of the Carboniferous Blattoid
Insect, Htoblattina peachi. Herbert Bolton, Esq., M.Sc., F.GS.
The type-specimen of Hypermegethes northumbrie (H. Bolton,
Quart.:Jourm..Geol.. Soc., vol. lxxu;-1917, p.. 55, pl. iv, figs. 2,3)
text-fig. 5), an insect-wing from the Coal Measures, Crawerook,
Co. Durham. Wailliam Eliringham, Esq.
Nine Decapod Crustacea from the London Clay of Hssex.
S. Hazzeledine Warren, Esg., F.G.S.
Two Cirripede see (Scalpellum sp.), from the Barton Clay.
HI, Eliot Walton, Esq.
An enlarged photograph of Culex winchesteri, Cockerell, from the
Hocene of Colorado. Prof. 7. D. A. Cockerell.
Twenty specimens of red amber (Burmite) from the Miocene
Clay in Burma, containing the types of fossil insects described
by Prof. T. D. A. Cockerell, in “Psyche” (1917) and “ Annals
Entomol. Soc. America” (1917). Rodway C. J. Swinhoe, Esq.
Tertiary Cirripedes from near Jask, Persian Gulf. Lieut. B. K.
NV. Wyllie, R.E., F.G.S., and Lieut. J. V. Harrison, RE.
A Balanus obtained by the donor from a Raised Beach in Peru.
Dr. H. O. Forbes.
Echinoderma.—A specimen of Crinoid-conglomerate from a
fissure in the Leptena-kalk of Kalholn, Dalecarlia, Sweden. Herr
Orvar Isberg.
A Crinoid (Cyathocrinus) from the Wenlock Limestone of Much
Wenlock. Miss Doris Rose Hole.
Two Crinoids from the top of the Wenlock Shale, Lincoln Hill,
Ironbridge, Salop. Dr. F. A. Bather, F.R.S.
Four fragments and one micr oscope-section of a Carboniferous
Crinoidal rock. Revd. G. Warren.
A hundred and thirteen Crinoids and twenty-one Blastoids from
the Carboniferous of Oklahoma, U.S.A. ; seventeen Crinoids from
the Carboniferous of Missouri ; eighty-nine Crinoids from the Car-
boniferous of Texas; ten Blastoids from the Carboniferous of
Illinois ; and: three Cystids from the Lower Devonian of Virginia.
Mr. Darling K. Greger.
A hundred and sixty-four Crinoids from the Portlandian of
Stramberg. Dr. C. T. Trechmann, F.G.S.
Hehinoidea from the Jurassic of Central Arabia. HH. St. J. B.
Philby, Hsq., CIE. eS.
Two masses of Chert filled with Hchinoids (Cardiaster and
Epiaster) from the Upper Greensand, Charmouth. A. B. Hann,
Esq.
Three Crinoids (Marsupites and Uintacrinus) from the Chalk of
the South Coast. C.D. Sherborn, Esq., F.GS.
Seventeen specimens of Mipemssee arranged to show evolution
through zones of the English Chalk. 7. H. Withers, Esq., F.GS.
A rare form of Hchinocorys scutatus from the Chalk of Chipstead,
Surrey. William Wright, Esq., F.G.S.
136 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
The stem of a Crinoid (Balanocrinus) from the London Clay at
Baker Street Station. Miss L. M. Devonshire.
Fifty-eight Crinoid-stems and one Hchinoid radiole from the
London Clay of Essex. S. Hazzledine Warren, Esq., F.GS.
An Ophiuroid ossicle from the Barton Clay. H. Eliot Walton,
Ksq.
A specimen of Cidaris from the Miocene of Malta. Lieut.
J. C. Walton.
Echinoids from the Tertiary of Jask, Persian Gulf. Lieut.
B. Kk. N. Wyllie, RE, F.G.S., and Lieut. J. V. Harrison, R.E.
Annelida.—Borings of Teredo from the Bracklesham Beds,
Selsey, Sussex. Edward Heron-Allen, Esq., F.R.S.
Brachiopoda.—Kight Brachiopods from the top of the Wenlock
Shale, Lincoln Hill, Ironbridge, Salop. Dr. F. A. Bather, F.R.S.
Sixty Brachiopods from the Carboniferous Limestone of the
North of England. Prof. E. J. Garwood, F.RS.
Nineteen characteristic Brachiopods from the Carboniferous
Limestone of the Bristol district. Prof. S. H. Reynolds, Sce.D.,
F.GS.
A piece of siliceous rock containing Brachiopods (Productus and
Spirifer) of Carboniferous age, from the bed of the river Dwina,
about 200 miles S. of Archangel, Russia. Private K. A. 7.
Westerberg. .
Brachiopoda from the Jurassic of Centra Arabia. HH. St. J. B.
Prilby, His@.. CA. 2 Cas.
Polyzoa.—Eleven Ordovician Polyzoa from Hsthonia.
Bekker, Esq.
Fifteen Polyzoa from the top of the Wenlock Shale, Lincoln
Hill, Ironbridge, Salop. Dr. F. A. Bather, F.R.S.
Polyzoa from the Jurassic of Central Arabia. HH. St. J. B.
Philby, Fsg.5 C.1L., 1.C8:
Sixty Chalk Polyzoa from Surrey and Sussex. C. 7. A.
Gaster, Esq.
Six Polyzoa from the Upper Chalk of Kent. G. HE. Dubley,
Esq:, #aG..S. .
Anthozoa and Hydrozoa.—Twenty-eight Corals and two Hydrozoa
from the top of the Wenlock Shale, Lincoln Hill, Ironbridge, Shrop-
shire. Dr. F. A. Bather, F.RS.
Two specimens of the Carboniferous Coral Cryptophyllum
hibernicum, one being in six serial sections. R. G. Carruthers,
Esq., F.GS.
Corals from the Jurassic of Central Arabia. H. St. J. B.
Philby, Esq., C.1LE., ICS.
A Tertiary Graphularia. Rev. Donald Miller, DD.
A Coral obtained by the donor on his journey across Northern
Arabia from Koviet to Suez (Geogr. Journ., vol. xliv, p. 96, 1914).
Captain W, H. T. Shakespear.
Corals from the Upper Pliocene or Pleistocene of Taranto, Italy.
James Wright, Esq.
DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY. 137
Porifera.—A. sponge (Plocoscyphia) from the Chalk Rock, Aston
Rowant, Oxon. JT. H. Withers, Esq., F.G.S.
Protozoa.—A_ piece of Nummulitic Limestone, from Menton,
France. F. Ross Thomson, Esq.
A Foraminifer (Schwagerina) infilled with asphalt, yet ae by
the late Upfield Green at Batraci in Samara, Russia. C.D. Sher-
born, Esq., F.GS.
Plante.—Thirteen specimens illustrating eight species of the
supposed Algee—Collenia, Greysonia, Newlandia, Camasia, Gallatina
and Copperia—trom the Algonkian (Pre-C ‘ambr ian) rocks of
Montana, described by Dr. C. D. Walcott, Smithsonian Miscellaneous
Coll., vol. Ixiv, no. 2 (1914). The United States National Museum.
Four Plants collected by the late Prof. H. G. Seeley in the
Ordovician of Esthonia. Mrs. H. G. Seeley.
A leaf-sear of Bothrodendron punctatum, from the Carboniferous
Pennant Grit, Chewton Mendip. W. 7. Hanman, Hsq., and A. T.
Warren, Hsq., M.A.
A plaster cast of the Stigmarian, Dictyophloios ninor, Foerste,
from the Carboniferous (Chester Group) of Pope Co., Tllinois, U.S.A.
Dr. Aug. F. Foerste.
Four plants from the Carboniferous, Ironstone Nodules, Coseley,
Staffs. “S. Priest, Esq., F.G.S.
An impression in coal of Megaphyton. H. Burch, Esq.
Highteen plants with six invertebrate fossils from the Upper
Coal Measures of Ssu-Tao-Chang Mine, 14 degrees E. of Mukden,
Manchuria ; collected by G. T. Holloway, Esq. H. A. Allen, Esq.,
eG...
Forty plants from the Coal Measures (Low-Main Seam) near
- Neweastle-on-Tyne. 8. Hazzledine Warren, Esq., F.G.S.
Two micro-sections of Bennettites maximus from the Lower
Greensand, Shanklin, I. of Wight, made from the type-specimen,
and described by Dr. Marie Stopes in Phil. Trans., 1918. The
Director of the Geological Survey.
One Nipadites from the Eocene, Mokattam quarries, Cairo. G.
Yoster Smith, Esq.
Nullipores from the Upper Pliocene or Pleistocene of Taranto,
ltaly. James Wright, Esq.
A specimen of peat from Peru. W. F. H. Rosenberg, Esq.
Tracks.—A slab with tracks (Climatichnites), four specimens
illustrating wind-action, and two fragments of limestone, obtained
by the donor on his journey across Northern Arabia from Koweit to
Suez (Georr. Journ., vol. xliv, p! 96; 1914)! ~Capt. W. a. T.
Shakespear.
Rock-specimens.—Three dreikanten from the Bunter Sandstone
of Nottingham. Robert I’ Anson, Hsq.
Six micro-slides of flints from the Wallich collection. The
Royal Microscopical Society.
Seventy micro-slides chiefly of flints from the Wallich collection.
EK. Heron-Allen, Esq., PRS. and A, Harland, Esq.
138 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
Highty-six wind-facetted pebbles and one weathered rock-surface
from the Eastern Desert, Egypt. &. W. Moon, Esq., B.E., F.G.S.
Two pitted pebbles and ten facetted wind-worn pebbles from
Bir Mabeuik, Sinai. Major N. V. L. Rybot.
Five specimens of soundings from Kingston, Jamaica, taken
after the great earthquake of Jan. 14th, 1907. Capt. John A.
Rupert Jones.
. B.—By Purchase.
Plaster casts of a fossil human skull from Talgai, Darling
Downs, Queensland, described by Prof. S. A. Smith, Phil. Trans.,
OAs.
Skull of Potamotherium and six small mammalian jaws from the
Miocene of France.
Jaw of Epanorthus and five jaws of allied genera from the
Santa Cruz Formation of Patagonia. :
Skulls of the two Labyrinthodonts, Capitosaurus, from the
Trias of Germany, and Cochleosaurus, from the Permian of Bohemia.
Three microscope-sections of jaws of the shark, Sphenacanthus
hybodoides, from the Coal Measures of Shore, Lancashire.
About fifty fossils from the Wealden and Cretaceous of Sussex,
and from the Rhaetic of Linksfield, Elgin, collected by the late
Major Lambart Brickenden.
About 50 fossil Invertebrata from the Chalk Rock of Aston
Rowant, Oxon.
Twenty-five fossil Corals and Brachiopods, and thirty-five micro-
scope-sections of fossil Corals, from the Carboniferous Limestone,
deser. and figd. by the late Dr. Arthur Vaughan.
Twenty-nine vertical and sixty-nine horizontal microscope-
sections of the Shallow Seam of coal, South Staffordshire, with
sixty-seven micro-photographs of the same (J. Lomax).
C.—BbBy Exchange.
A collection of about 500 Chelonian remains, with a few
Lacertilian remains, from superficial deposits in Mauritius, obtained
by Thirioux, Sauzier, and the Newtons, partly described by Giinther
(Gigantic Land Tortoises), Gadow (Trans. Zool. Soc.), and Haddon
(Trans. Linn. Soc.) : University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge.
Six specimens of the crab, Dakoticancer overana, from Upper
Cretaceous, S. Dakota, U.S.A.
The total accessions during 1919 are as follows :—
Donations. Purchases. Exchanges. Total.
Vertebrata 132 67 500 699
Invertebrata 1730 126 6 1862
Plantze 86 “ye = 173
Rocks 189 -- —_ 189
213t 286 506 2929
The total number of specimens registered is 4998.
DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY. 139
VI.—Students and Visitors.
The number of visits paid to the Department by students and
other persons for the purpose of consultation or study during 1919
was 4,648.
VII.—Lectures and Demonstrations.
Seven parties were received in the Galleries of the Department
of Geology, and demonstrations were given as follows :—
Jan. 18th—Geologists’ Association (27 members) : Dr. Woodward.
Feb. 1st—Battersea Field Club (13 members) : Dr. Woodward.
Feb. 8th—Students’ Association of North London (8 members) :
Dr. Woodward.
Feb. 8th—Geologists’ Association (35 members) : Dr. Lang.
Feb. 22nd—S.W. Polytechnic Geological Field Club (24 members) :
Dr. Woodward.
Nov. 1st—Wimbledon Natural History Society (11 members) :
Dr. Bather.
Dec. 13th—St. Peter’s Church, Cranley Gardens (28 members) :
Dr. Lang.
Arthur Smith Woodward.
140 ACCOUNTS, EPC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
DEPARTMENT OF MINERALOGY.
L.—Arrangement.
The Church Collection of Precious Stones has been re-arranged
and placed in an exhibition case under the archway leading to the
Pavilion, and a special electric light has been provided for the
over-head illumination of the stones. The Bible-Minerals case has
at the same time been removed from its former position in the
Pavilion and placed under the archway, opposite the Church Col-
lection case, and is similarly illuminated.
The large series of topaz and beryl and the smaller neigh-
bouring species (andalusite, kyanite, fibrolite, allophane, pilolite,
halloysite, &c.) have been re-arranged in the case-tops and in the
drawers, the specimens of each species being brought together into
one case (instead of breaking across the centre of the gallery), and
the arrangement has been made topographical as far as is consistent
with the effective display of the specimens. Many of the single
isolated smaller crystals have been removed from the pedestals,
labelled, and placed in the drawers.
The specimens of spodumene, tremolite, and actinolite have been
re-arranged in the case-tops.
Rock specimens have been transferred from the Gallery to the
Rock room.
Forty-two boxes of mineral and rock specimens have been
received, unpacked, and examined, and forty-eight boxes have
been packed and despatched.
I1.— Registration, Indeaing, and Cataloguing.
All the specimens of minerals, rocks, and meteorites acquired
during the year have been registered, numbered, provided with
permanent labels, and incorporated in the collection. In this con-
nection many specimens have been examined and determined: and
localities checked.
- The preparation of the slip-catalogues of the mineral specimens
in the collection, species by species, and of permanent labels giving
all available information for each specimen, has been continued
for the Divisions of the Oxides and Carbonates. In this connection
permanent labels have been written, checked, and placed with the
specimens of thorite, rutile, anatase, brookite, baddeleyite, mela-
nophlogite, cristobalite, tridymite, chalybite, rhodochrosite, calamine,
chessylite, and malachite ; the permanent labels which had: already
been written for the species cassiterite have been placed with the
specimens ; the writing of labels for the large group including
quartz, chalcedony, and agate, has been in progress ; and slips and
labels have been written for the specimens of limonite not included
in the main Collection.
DEPARTMENT OF MINERALOGY. 141
The minerals of the Geological Society’s collection have been
all provided with permanent labels and incorporated in the General
Collection.
Papers relating to the large round table of antique marbles
have been placed together in a drawer specially constructed under
the table, and a label has been printed and framed for the table.
A scheme has been considered for a complete and detailed topo-
graphical index of all the localities represented in the mineral
collection.
An alphabetical list of rock names represented in the collections
has been compiled, and a copy has been placed for public use in
the Gallery.
The topographical index of the rock-collections has been brought
up to date.
Letters received during 1918 have been arranged for reference.
I11.—Prepartion.
155 micro-sections of minerals, meteorites, and rocks have been
prepared ; three meteorites have been cut; and six pieces of
meteoric iron have been polished for etching.
LV .—/nvestigation.
A crystallographical investigation of the series of crystals of
lead and copper minerals from Red Gill, Cumberland, and Leadhills,
Lanarkshire, in the Trechmann Collection has been in progress, and
many crystals of linarite and caledonite have been measured.
The crystalline form and physical characters of the new Spanish
mineral villamaninite have been determined, and a description has
been written.
The crystallographic constants of other apparently new minerals
have been determined, viz., a blue copper-zine phosphate from
Rhodesia and a uranium-lead silicate from the Belgian Congo. .
Artificially-produced crystals of tin arsenide have been measured
and described ; and in this connection a study has been made of the
question of curvature in crystals, a general account of which has
been prepared.
New crystal-forms have been determined on calcite, pyrites, and
epidote, and these have been described and figured.
Specimens collected and presented by F. N. Ashcroft from
Derbyshire, Cumberland, and Renfrewshire have been examined and
determined.
Among other species which have been examined for purposes of
identification or other reasons may be mentioned stibnite and
bournonite from Spain, scorodite from Cornwall, tarbuttite and
hopeite from Rhodesia, allophane from British Columbia, and
fibrolite from Scotland.
The investigation of the metamorphic rocks represented in the
collections of the “Terra Nova” Antarctic Expedition has been in
142 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
progress, and descriptions have been written of the cordierite- and
sillimanite-gneisses, epidote-rocks, ae and mica-schists, and
some of the gneisses.
Rock-specimens collected by Captain Lynes in Morocco have
been examined.
In the Chemical Laboratory complete quantitative analyses have.
been made of the meteorites Adare and Mt. Ayliff, and quantitative
determinations have been made of the amount and composition of
the nickeliferous iron in the meteorites Ensisheim, Felix, Henderson-
ville, and Simondium. Many minerals, including specimens of
tinstone from Nigeria, have been qualitatively analysed.
V.—Departmental Library.
Cataloguing and Press-marking.—All the accessions, including
395 plates, have been catalogued and stamped ; 686 volumes have
been pressmarked or re-pressmarked.
Proofs of the General Library Catalogue (Supplement) have
been read and checked against the slip-catalogue in the Department.
Accessions.—28 volumes of separate works, 12 parts of continua-
tions, 24 periodicals (in 311 volumes and parts), 53 memoirs and
pamphlets, and 58 mining and survey reports have been added to the
Library.
Binding.—15 volumes have been bound.
V1I.— Publications.
A new edition of the Student’s Index to the Collection of
Minerals has been prepared for press.
The following papers relating to specimens in the Collection have
been published in the Mineralogical nib fe and Journal of the
Mineralogical Society, 1919, vol. xviii :
A method for the quick jatralihatned of the approximate amount
and composition of the nickeliferous iron in Meteorites, and its
application to seventeen meteoric stones: by G. T. Prior (xvii,
. 349
i Hivenderiat characters of Turite (= turgite) and some other
iron-ores from Nova Scotia: by L. J. Spencer (xviii, p. 339).
Highth list of new mineral names; L. J. Spencer (xviii,
to Lane
on Sartorite and the problem of its erystal-form : G. F. Herbert
Smith and R. H. Solly (xvii, p. 259).
On the use of the gnomonic projection in the calculation of
crystals: G. F. Herbert Smith (xviii, p. 317).
Semseyite from Dumfriesshire. With a chemical analysis by
G. T. Prior: G. F. Herbert Smith (xviii, p. 354).
A Students’ Goniometer: G. F. Herbert Smith (xvii, p. 366).
A lead-grey fibrous mineral from the Binn valley, Switzerland.
With a Chemical Analysis by G. T. Prior: R. H. Solly.
DEPARTMENT OF MINERALOGY. 143
Acquisitions.
759 specimens have been acquired, namely :—
311 minerals. (including crystallized furnace products), 16
meteorites (and casts), and 432 rocks.
Exchanges of specimens have been arranged with the Field
Museum of Natural History at Chicago, the United States National
Museum at Washington, Dr. J. E. Stead, F.R.S., of Middlesbrough,
and Monsieur H. Buttgenbach, of Brussels.
The following names added to the Museum List were previously
not represented by specimens in the collection :—
Cornetite, crestmoreite, ektropite, ferrierite, katoptrite, margaro-
sanite, ponite, riversideite, stevensite, villamaninite ; also the follow-
ing from crystallized furnace products :—Hilgenstockite, silico-
carnotite, steadite, vogtite.
The specimens acquired by presentation (arranged alphabeti-
cally according to donors) and by exchange, and a selection of the
more important obtained by purchase are as follows :—
Minerals.
By Presentation.
A further selection from the donor’s collection of zeolites,
namely, 14 specimens representing five localities in Bohemia and 12
specimens from West Paterson, New Jersey. <A series of 72
selected specimens collected by the donor in 1919 in Derbyshire,
Cumberland, and Dumfriesshire, including fluor, calcite, dolomite,
barytes, greenockite, calamine, cerussite, pyromorphite, wolframite,
scheelite, pilolite, hausmannite, &. A large specimen of analcite
from County Antrim. A crystal of hacked quartz from North
Wales. Various American specimens, including margarosanite,
crestmoreite, and riversideite (three species new to the collection),
powellite from Utah, pyrites crystals from Colorado, and, as part
presentation, a fine group of large crystals of scheelite from Arizona.
Also a fine crystal of apatite from Ontario, leucite with melanite
from Rome, and pyrites crystals from Japan: by F. N. Ashcroft,
Kisq.
Fluor from Derbyshire, collected by the donor: Miss Lb. M.
Ashcroft.
Coal from Thessaly, Greece : by the University of Athens.
Magnesite from near Bulawayo, Rhodesia : by A.V. Ballhatchet,
Esq.
Fibroferrite from Cyprus: by C. EL. Barrs, Esq.
Wolframite with scheelite, molybdenite, &c., from Zinba mince,
Tavoy district, Burma: by J. Morrow Campbell, Esq.
Chromite from New Caledonia, Baluchistan, and Rhodesia: by
the Chrome Company, Ltd.
Gahnite and chrysocolla from Broken Hill, New South Wales :
by Arthur Combe, Esq.
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Psittacinite from Belgian Congo: by H. Cookson, Esq.
Artificial minerals (cristobalite, fayalite, rhodonite, apatite,
spinel, willemite, vogtite, silico-carnotite, hilgenstockite, steadite,
&c.) from furnace slags: by Allan B. Dick, Esq.
Coal from Yampupata mine, Bolivia: by A. L. Dun, Esq.
Fibrolite from Clattering Bridge, Kincardineshire: by W.
Duncan, Hsq.
Siliceous sinter and micaceous heematite from Lustleigh, Devon-
shire: by A. B. Edge, Esq.
Ferrierite, a new species, from British Columbia: by Dr. W. F.
Ferrier. |
Geikielite crystal from Ceylon: by Sir L. Fletcher, F.RS.
Retinite in coal from Alger, Wyoming: by Thomas French, Esq.
Lepidolite, a transparent pale-lilac cleavage slab, from Western
Australia: by Rev. J. M. Gordon.
Dioptase on malachite from Bwana M’Kubwa, North-West
Rhodesia ; faceted hematite from Crowgarth mine, Cleator Moor,
Cumberland: by Albert G. F. Gregory, Esq.
Artificial anorthic metasilicate of iron, calcium, manganese, and
magnesium (vogtite) from acid steel-furnace slag: by A. F.
Hallimond, Esq.
Native copper and anthophyllite in serpentine from the Lizard,
Cornwall: by Arnold G. Hansard, Esq.
Pyrites with graphite from Ceylon : by Messrs. Henderson & Co,
Tourmaline, a large crystal, from Minas Geraes, Brazil: by
Lieut.-Commander B. ey ition TN elas
Demantoid with fibrous dadlndita : by EL. Hopkins, Esq.
Chalcedony nodule enclosing water (enhydros): by Miss M. V.
Jessup.
Cassiterite in pegmatite, spodumene, &ec., from Winnebah
district, Gold Coast, West Africa : by W. H. Kenny, Esq.
Tarbuttite, a large isolated crystal, from Broken Hill, North-
West Rhodesia : by F. P. Mennell, Esq.
Muscovite in serpentine from Rumania : by Prof. G. Murgoci.
Cassiterite, compact, white, from Bolivia : by Dr. Richard Pearce.
Corundum from Palmeitfontein farm, Zoutpansberg district,
Transvaal : by Dr. A. W. Rogers, F.R.S.
Witherite from Ushaw Moor Collier y, Durham ; stibnite from
Co. Monaghan ; tetrahedrite from Co. Galway : by Arthur Russell,
Esq.
Villamaninite, a new species from Villamanin, Spain ; rutile
(var. nigrine), two large water-worn crystals from Brazil: by Dr.
W. R. Schoeller.
Buxenite crystals from Titi, Negri Sembilan, Federated Malay
States : by J. B. Scrivenor, Esq.
Apatite crystals from basic slag : by Dr. J. H. Stead, PRS.
Calcite with barytes, and dolomite with fluor, from Force Crag
mine, Braithwaite, Cumberland : by H. T. Stretton, Esq.
DEPARTMENT OF MINERALOGY. 145
Asphaltum trom Homs, Syria: by Corpl. J. S. M. Thomson,
AW F.
Cubes of blende from Lerui’n Kano; magnetic cassiterite,
orange-yellow cassiterite, rutile, wolframite, columbite, wood-tin,
and cadmium sulphide, all from Northern Nigeria ; and scorodite
from Devonshire : by A. Stanley Willams, Esq.
Mica, cut sheets, from Aidin, Asia Minor : by Mrs. Wilson.
Hornblende from Welwitsch, Damaraland, South Africa: by W.
C. Worsdell, Esq.
By Exchange :
Three specimens of the new species cornetite from the Belgian
Congo.
Cut and polished samples of an artificial tin-arsenic-antimony
alloy showing curious crystalline growths with the form of spherical
shells.
By Purchase :
A series of copper and uranium ores from Katanga, Congo,
including fine specimens of plancheite, dioptase, malachite, chryso-
colla, &c., and an undetermined uranium-lead silicate.
A series of tin, bismuth, and other ores from Bolivia, including
a fine group of blende crystals, wolframite, chalybite crystals,
bournonite, Xe.
A series of specimens from Madagascar including good crystals
of columbite, monazite, ampangabeite, and citrine.
A series of specimens from the asbestos mines of Val Malenco,
Lombardy, including artinite, andradite, and uvarovite.
Dioptase, a fine group of crystals, and achtaragdite from Siberia,
Wollastonite, as large crystals, and erubescite from Mexico.
Ektropite, katoptrite (two new species), and margarosanite and
allactite from Sweden.
Anthophyllite, actinolite, pyromorphite, limonite, and a specimen
showing cone-in-cone structure, from Scotch localities.
Sphene with axinite from Cornwall.
Fluor, cerussite, quartz, calcite, scheelite from the north of
England.
Wolframite, native copper, and tourmaline in quartz from
Rhodesia.
Cassiterite from Swaziland, South Africa, a group of crystals,
and a transparent deep brown specimen faceted as a gem-stone.
Tourmaline, a large crystal from Hazaribagh, Bengal.
Cristobalite from California; manganosite and a fine large
erystal of franklinite from New Jersey; a fine group of large
erystals of scheelite (part presentation by F. N. Ashcroft, Esq.)
and connellite from Arizona ; tellurium and pyrites from Colorado.
Realgar from China.
K
146 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
a Rocks.
By Presentation :
15 specimens collected by the donor in Fifeshire, Edinburghshire
and Renfrewshire : by FP. N. Ashcroft, Esq.
11 specimens collected by the donor in the Canary Islands and
Cape Verde Islands: by David A. Bannerman, Esq.
A large mass of plumasite, containing crystals of corundum,
from Bandolier Kop, Transvaal: by Messrs. A. W. Collett and
Snerting.
Felsite fram Avoca, Co. Wicklow: by H. F. Collins, Esq.
A small collection of rocks and ores from the copper mines of
Montecatini, Tuscany : by Col. ). H. Colnaghi.
A series of 140 specimens collected by Mr. Franklin White in
1919 in Madagascar from the graphite deposits and in a traverse
across the island to the oil-bearing district in the east : by Hdmund
Davis, Esq. :
Australites from Charlotte Water, Northern Territory, South
Australia : by J. Halliday, Esq.
A series of polished specimens of serpentine from the Lizard,
Cornwall : by Arnold G. Hansard, Esq.
A series of 120 specimens collected by the donor in 1911 in
Mozambique, East Africa, and described by him: by Dr. Arthur
Holmes.
4 specimens from the Winnebah district, Gold Coast, West
Africa: by W. H. Kenny, Esq.
A small lot collected by the donor in 1919 in the Lesser Atlas,
Morocco : by Capt. H. Lynes, RN.
Specimens from Karakoram Himalayas, collected by the late
Capt. Cosmo Grant Peterkin, surveyor on the Bullock Workman
Expedition, 1911-12 : by Miss K. MW. Grant Peterkin.
‘“‘Toadstones ”’ and altered limestone collected by the donor from
near Matlock, Derbyshire, 1919 : by Dr. G. T. Prior, F.R.S.
A series of 7 specimens collected by the donor in 1914 in the
islands of the Grecian Archipelago : by Arthur Russell, Esq.
Leucite-tephrite from Trebizond, Asia Minor: by Dr. Fehw
Oswald.
A series of 30 specimens collected by the donor in 1913-14 from
the neighbourhood of the Nairobi-Mombasa Railway and from Mt.
Elgon, British East Africa: by E. Starey, Esq.
A series of 5 specimens collected by the donor at Solwezi,
Kasempa district, Northern Rhodesia : by Guy A. Taylor, Esq.
A series of 40 specimens collected by the donors in 1911-12 in
the eastern Karakoram Mtns., Himalayas, and described by W.
Campbell Smith in their book, 1917 : by Mrs. F. Bullock Workman
and Dr. W. Hunter Workman.
By Purchase :
Garnet-hornblende-felspar rock from Val Malenco, Lombardy.
DEPARTMENT OF MINERALOGY. 147
Meteorites.
By Presentation :
Appley Bridge, Wigan, Lancashire, fragments weighing 3 yrams
of the 33 Ib. mass which fell on 13 October, 1914 : by the Municipal
School of Technology, Manchester.
Pseudo-meteorite from Nyasaland : by Major F. B, Pearce.
By Kachange :
Felix, Perry Co., Alabama, a partly crusted fragment weighing
37 grams of the stone which fell on May 15, 1900.
FHlendersonville, Henderson County, North Carolina, a slice
weighing 132 grams of the stone found in 1901. (Probably fell
about 1876).
Mount Vernon, Christian Co., Kentucky, a polished slice weigh-
ing 1,250 grams of the stony iron found about 1870.
Plainview, Hale Co., Texas, a crusted fragment weighing 35
grams of one of the stones found in 1917.
San Emigdio Mountains, San Bernardino Co., California, several
fragments weighing together 33 grams of the stone known in 1887.
Scott City, Seott Co., Kansas, a crusted slice weighing 130
grams of the stone found in 1911.
Yanlautlan, Oaxaca, Mexico, an etched slice weighing 305 grams
of the iron known before 1825.
By Purchase :
Blithjield, Renfrew Co., Ontario, Canada, cast of the stone found
a 1910,
Kilbourn, Columbia Co., Wisconsin, fragments weighing alto-
gether 1 gram of the stone which fell on June 16, 1911.
Mount Edith, Ashburton, Western Australia, a slice weighing
145 grams of the iron found in 1913; also a cast of the whole
mass.
Plainview, Hale Co., Texas, a complete stone weighing 2,793
erams found in 1917.
Sams Valley, Jackson Co., Oregon, U.S.A., a slice weighing
94 grams of the iron found in 1894.
Skookum Gulch, Bonanza Creek, Klondike, Yukon, Canada, a
shee weighing 3624 grams of the iron found in 1905 at a depth
of 65 feet in auriferous gravel of Pliocene age.
VIIL.—Donations of Duplicates.
Duplicate specimens of minerals have been given to the Red
Cross Camp at Netley, Hants, the Canonbury Church Schools, and
mineral ores from Peru and gold-quartz from Australia to the Geo-
logical Department of the Imperial College of Science and Techno-
logy.
9 duplicate Meteorite casts have been given to the Public
Library, Museum, and Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide,
and fragments of various silver, copper, and lead minerals to the
Department of Scientific Research and Experiment of the Admiralty.
148 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
LX.— Demonstrations.
A demonstration on Meteorites was given to the Geological
Association.
X.—Students and Visitors.
The number of visits recorded as made to the Department for
purposes of consultation or study is 915. Many specimens of
minerals and rocks have been determined for visitors and correspon-
dents.
G. T. Prior.
DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY. 149
DEPARTMENT OF BoTANY.
I.—Arrangement and Conservation.
During the past year 13,475 specimens have been incorporated
with the Herbarium. This number includes 12,825 Flowering
Plants, 270 Mosses, 80 Hepatics, 134 Lichens, 4 Algae, and 162
Fungi.
The restoration to the Herbarium and Library of types and
other specimens and volumes of unique interest which had been
removed from the Department for greater security during the War,
has occupied part of the time of the Staff ; the type-specimens have
been indicated by a special label, and the opportunity was taken for
some work of revision and rearrangement. The large series of
specimens from the Hortus Glikertenmis have been Lonrelatad with
the published volume by Linnaeus of the same title, and re-arranged,
Flowering Plants.—Collections acquired during the year have
been mounted and incorporated wholly or in part ; ; and also out-
standing specimens of various collections from Australia, and
generally, in various families, especially Commelinaceze, Aracez,
Cyperaceze, Graminez, Anonaceze, Myrsinaceze, Urticaceze, and
Cupuliferze. Work of revision and re-arrangement has been done
in various families and genera. The European Herbarium of the
late R. P. Murray has been partly incorporated. The collection of
hand-specimens of woods used in commerce has been re-arranged,
and progress has been made in making and fitting trays in the
cabinets of the general collection of woods, for the better arrange-
ment of the specimens for consultation.
Cryptogams.—W ork preliminary to incorporation has been done
in the various groups, progress has been made with the sorting and
selection of the Stirton collection of Lichens, and with the
determination and classification of unnamed British Lichens.
Exhibition Series.—The several series in the Public Gallery have
been maintained, and additions have been made in various families.
The family Cornaceze has been re-arranged. British and cultivated
specimens have been collected and prepared for exhibition.
Catalogues and Guides.—The preparation of Volume IV of the
Flora of Jamaica by Mr. Faweett and Dr. Rendle has been
completed and in great part printed, a new edition of the Guide
to the Mycetozoa has been prepared and published, and progress has
been made with the preparation of a new edition of the List of
British Seed Plants and Ferns.
I1.—Jnvestigation.
Collections have been investigated and determined from the
following localities and collectors :—Archangel, Bouches de Rhéne
(Lowe), Malta, Macedonia (Blackett, Ramsbottom and _ others),
-
150 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
Palestine (White), Sinai (Stammwitz), Mesopotamia (Whitehead),
Annam (Kloss), New Guinea (White), Cameroons and Nigeria
(Bates), Rhodesia (Hyles), Belgian Congo (Vanderyst and others),
Brazil (Moss) and New Caledonia (Compton).
Work of investigation has been done in the genera Acacia,
Allophyllus, Baphia, Dombeya, Hrodium, Vellozia, and in other genera
of various families especially Euphorbiaceze, Rubiaceze, Composite,
Acanthaceze, and in genera from the Balkan Peninsula. Also in
various families and genera of Mosses, Red Seaweeds, Fungi and
Lichens. Various fungi of economic importance have been investi-
gated. Numerous small collections have been determined for
sedents and collectors.
In connection with the work done in the Department specimens
have been generously lent by the Government of Jamaica, the
Director of the Royal Gardens, Kew, of the Herbarium of the Museum
d’ Histoire Naturelle, Paris, of the Jardin Botanique de 1|’Etat,
Brussels, and of the Naturhistoriska Riks-Museum at Stockholm, the
Regius Keeper of Botany, Edinburgh, and the Curator of the Bristol
Museum.
Material has been lent for determination and critical study as
follows :—263 specimens of British Lichens to Mr. Thomas Hebden ;
15 specimens of Potamogeton from various localities to Mr. Arthur
Bennett ; 10 species of Baphia from tropical Africa to Mr. L. V.
Lester-Garland ; 118 specimens of Quercus from Malaya to Mr. J.
S. Gamble ; and 47 Mosses from Uganda and Rhodesia to Mr. H.
N. Dixon.
II1.— Departmental Library.
1. Arrangement, Cataloguing, and Pressmarking. The register-
ing, stamping, and cataloguing of additions to the library and other
rontine work has been carried out. Departmental assistance in con-
nection with the Official Catalogue of the Library has been continued.
A new press has been placed in 1 the Cryptogamic Herbarium.
2. <Accessions. 18 volumes and 23 pamphlets were acquired by
donation and 56 volumes and 3 pamphlets by purchase, in all 74
volumes and 26 pamphlets ; these numbers include 14 volumes of
periodicals in parts presented and 38 volumes of periodicals in parts
purchased, in all 52 volumes of periodicals. The following is a list
of the principal donors :—
Kolonial institut, Amsterdam. Director, Royal Botanic Gardens,
Prof. L. H. Bailey. Caleutta.
R. T. Baker, Esq. Director, Gray Herbarium, Cam-
Lady Barkly. bridge, Mass.
Dr. F. A. Bather, F.R.S. ~ Mademoiselle A. Camus.
Royal Botanical Society, Bel- Director, Field Museum, Chieago.
gium. Director, Botanical Museum,
Dr. Georg Bitter. University of Copenhagen.
James Britten, Hsq. Parke, Davis & Co., Detroit, Mich.
DEPARTMENT
M. T. Dawe, Esq.
Director of Botanical School,
Trinity College, Dublin.
Regius Keeper, Royal Botanic
Garden, Edinburgh.
W. Fawcett, Esq.
Dr. Hassler.
Dr. Bunzo Hayata.
Dr. Augustine Henry.
Dr. Marshall A. Howe.
Royal Horticultural Society.
Director, University of Illinois.
Secretary of State for India.
Director, Board of Agriculture,
India. |
Director, Dept. van Landouw in-
verheid en Handel Buitenzorg
(Java).
Director, Royal Botanic Gardens,
Kew.
Secretary, Kew Guild.
Prof. Henri Lecomte.
Dr. Bernt Lynge, Kristiania.
C. C. Lacaita, Esq.
Director, Rijks Herbarium,
Leiden.
Linnean Society, London.
C. G. Lloyd, Esq.
J. H. Maiden, Esq. F.R.S.
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Elmer D. Merrill, Esq.
Editor, Philippine Agricultural
Review, Manila.
Director, Missouri Botanic Gar-
den, St. Louis.
H. W. Monckton, Hsq.
Spencer Moore, Esq.
Nederlandsche Botanische
eeniging.
L. H. Newman, Esq.
Director, Agricultural Research
Institute, Pusa.
Dr. E. Reys Prosper.
Dr. A. B. Rendle, F.R.S.
Director Jardin Botanico, Rio de
Janeiro.
Director, Botanic Gardens, Singa-
pore.
Botanical Institute, Tokyo.
Tokyo Botanical Society.
Director, Department of Agricul-
ture, Union of South Africa.
Director, Botaniska Institutionen,
Upsala.
Director, U.S. National Museum.
Washington.
Watson Botanical Exchange Club.
Director, Botanic Garden and
Museum, Zurich.
Ver-
The donations also include 2 watercolour drawings of Cypripe-
dium papuanum Ridl., presented by Hon. Charles Rothschild and
70 plates of plants, presented by Miss Tissart.
The following have been acquired by purchase—44 coloured
plates from Curtis’s Botanical Magazine and 13 drawings of British
Plants by Miss B. Corfe.
3. Binding.
75 volumes have been bound and others repaired.
Indexes have been prepared to a number of bound volumes of
original drawings, and of manuscript, and to several printed books.
LV .— Publications.
(1) Issued by the Trustees —Guide to the British Mycetozoa.
Edition 4. By Miss G. Lister.
(2) Issued by the permission of the Trustees.—Notes on Jamaica
Plants ; Huphorbiacee.
(Journal of Botany.)
The African species of Allophyllus.
(Journal of Botany.)
By!) Dy.
Rendle and Mr. W. Faweett.
By Mr. E. G. Baker.
152 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
Barbarea rivularis in Britain. By Messrs. A. B. Jackson and
A. J. Wilmott. (Journal of Botany.)
Rubiacez Batesiane. By Dr. Wernham. (Journal of Botany.)
The genus Manettia. By Dr. Wernham. (Journal of Botany.)
Alabastra diversa, Parts XXX. and XXXI. By Mr. Spencer
Moore. (Journal of Botany.)
(3) By Students of the Collections other than Members of the
Staf—The Cryptogams of Andrew’s Herbarium, By Mr. G. S.
Boulger. (Journal of Botany.)
Madeira Flowers. By Mr. James Britten. (Journal of Botany.)
Miscellanea Bryologica IV. By Mr. H. N. Dixon. (Journal of
Botany.)
Notes on Lychnothamnus. By Mr. J. Groves. (Journal of
Botany.)
A Revision of some critical species of Kchwwm. By Mr. C. ©.
Lacaita. (Journal of the Linnean Society.)
Notes on British Euphrasiee I. By Mr. H. W. Pugsley.
(Journal of Botany.)
A Revision of the genera Fumaria and Rupicapnos. By Mr.
H. W. Pugsley. (Journal of the Linnean Society.)
A hybrid Stachys. By Mr. C. E. Salmon. (Journal of
Botany.) ai
V.—a cguisitions.
(1) By Donation.
Additions to the British Herbarium have been received from the
following donors :—W. C. Barton, Hsq., 148 Phanerogams ; Mrs.
C. J. Godfrey, 4 Volumes of plants, being the herbarium of Rey.
W. Bingley, author of “* A Tour Round North Wales” (1800) ; Mrs.
KE. S. Gregory, Herbarium, containing 3,600 sheets ; Miss L. Lyle,
12 Alge ; Rev. HE. 8S. Marshall, 70 Phanerogams ; W. C. Newton,
Esq., 3 Phanerogams ; C. H. Salmon, Esq., 14 Phanerogams ; W. R.
Sherrin, Esq,, 2 specimens of Mosses; J. W. White, Hsq., 116
Phanerogams ; and single specimens from Col. M. J. Godfery ;
C. P. Hurst, Esq.; Rev. W. Johnson; H. H. Knight, Hsq. ; and
C. C. Lacaita, Esq. ~- |
The following donations have been made to the General
Herbarium :—
Europe.
W.S. Goodhew, Esq., 52 Phanerogams trom Archangel district :
D. Grantham, Esq., 160 Phanerogams from Archangel: C. C.
Lacaita, Esq., 9 Phanerogams from Italy ; Capt. P. R. Lowe, 49
Phanerogams from Rognac, Bouches du Rhone, and 95 Phanerogams
from Fieri, Val Challant ; C. HE. Salmon, Hsq., 6 Phanerogams from
France ; J. W. White, Esq., 195 Phanerogams chiefly from the
Balearic Isles and the Pyrenees.
DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY. 153
Asia.
~ Lt. F. G. Aldous, 54 Phanerogams from Syria; Prof. L. H.
Bailey, 3 species of Chinese grasses; Miss G. E. Benham, 125
specimens from Kashmir, India ; The Director, Botanic Gardens,
Brisbane, 47 species of Papuan Rubiaceze and 30 specimens of
Papuan Acanthacez ; Rev. Preb. H. E. Fox, 719 Phanerogams and
47 Oryptogams from Japan ; ©. Boden Kloss, Esq., 257 Phanero-
gams and 4 Cryptogams from South Annam ; C. C. Lacaita, Hsq.,
661 Phanerogams and 276 Ferns from Sikkim, India; Lt. P.
Stammwitz, 56 Phanerogams from Sinai Desert; Lt.-Col. M. F.
White, I.M.S., 137 specimens from Palestine ; H. Whitehead, Esq.,
14 Phanerogams from Mesopotamia.
Africa.
G. L. Bates, Esq., 253 Phanerogams from Bitye, Cameroons ;
R. A. Dummer, Esq., 114 Phanerogams and 77 Cryptogams’ from
Uganda; F. Eyles, Hsq., 364 Phanerogams and 55 Cryptogams
from Rhodesia ; Capt. H. Lynes, r.N., 79 Specimens from Azrou,
Middle Atlas; Ven. Archdeacon Rogers, 72 Phanerogams from
Tropical and South Africa ; Mrs. ©. Shinn, 72 Phanerogams -from
Nyasaland.
.. istralasia.
. H.N. Dixon, Esq., Sample of Diatomaceous earth from New
Zealand and one Lichen from Fiji; Mrs. Alfred Fowler, small
collection of Hawaiian Ferns ; Miss L. 8. Gibbs, 137 Phanerogams
and 7 Cryptogams from Tasmania.
America. |.
Mrs. Bendix Koppel, 6 Volumes of A. Lindig’s New Granada
Ferns and 1 Volume of Mosses ; Capt. P. R. Lowe, 1 Volume of
Dominica Ferns; Rev. H. 8. Marshall, 109 Phanerogams and 6
Cryptogams from Quebec Province, Canada, collected by Brother
Victorin ; Rev. A. Miles Moss, 35 Phanerogams from Para, Brazil ;
A. E. Persand, Hsq., 13 Fungi and 1 Lichen from Demerara ; and
single specimens from Miss M. Xavier de Bibadh Kosha and M. L.
Fernald.
Cultivated Plants.
K. A. Bowles, Esq., J4 species of Galanthus and 1 Crocus ; Hon.
N.C. Rothschild, 3 species of Orchids and 78 species and varieties
of Iris; Douglas Robertson, Hsq., Fasciated inflorescence of Lilium
Henryi with photos.
General.
Lady Barkly, 4,100 Ferns, Foreign and British; Miss
Biddulph, 2 specimens of double Coconut; E. B. Evans, Ksq.,
3 sections of stem of Chestnut (showing wound healing) ; Prof. A.
Henry, 9 species of Platanus; H. W. Archer Kilgour, Esq., 2
pieces of petrified Conifer wood and photos ; Major ©. F. Krabbe,
Stem bearing ‘“‘ Wooden Roses” from Brazil ; the late Prof. G. 8.
L
154 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
West, 1,475 sheets of original drawings of British and Foreign
Freshwater Algze and 30 packets of original drawings illustrating
his scientific papers.
| (2) By Purchase.
British Isles.
The Botanical Exchange Club (through W. C. Barton), 176
Phanerogams ; D. McArdle, Hsq., 152 Mosses and 302 Hepaties.
Europe.
C. Ata cae 235 Lichens from Switzerland, including
Fasc. I-IV, Nos. 1-129, Lichenes Ticinenses; F. Petrak, 375
specimens Fungi from Boho and Moravia.
Africa.
J. Gossweiler, 1,272 Phanerogams and 483 Oryptogams from
Portuguese Congo and Angola.
America.
Dr. H. Hassler, 1,047 Phanerogams and 47 Cryptogams from
Paraguay ; T. O. Weigel, 121 Phanerogams and 79 Cryptogams
from Bolivia, collected by Dr. O. Buchtien.
Australasia.
Mrs. Hodges, 200 Ferns from New Zealand and South Sea
Islands, collected by Surgeon W. Fasken.
3) By Exchange of Duplicates.
Y ge 0, P
Prof. F. J. Lewis, University of Alberta, Edmonton South,
Canada, 100 specimens of Canadian plants ; Director, Universitetets
Bot. Museum, Copenhagen, 612 Danish plants and 52 Mexican
plants ; Director, Museu Goeldi, Para, Brazil, 229 specimens from
Para ; Curator, Gray Herbarium, Cambridge, Mass., 200 specimens
Cent. II, III, Pl. Exsicce. Grayane, 597 specimens, including 50
Cryptogams from Newfoundland, and 48 specimens from Labrador ;
Dr. Merrill, Bureau of Science, Manila, Philippine Islands, 400
specimens ; Dr. N. L. Britton, Bot. Gardens, New York, 285 West
Indian plants; Chief, Division of Botany, Pretoria, 27 South
African plants and 32 South African species of Aloe; Director,
Bot. Gardens, Singapore, 153 Malayan plants; Director, Botanic
Gardens, Sydney, 87 Australian plants; Curator, U.S. National
Museum, Washington, 161 specimens from New Mexico, Surinam,
&e., 468 specimens from Mexico, and 286 Cryptogams ; Director,
Sania Museum, Zurich, 531 South African plants, and 6
Huropean plants.
VI.—Students and Visitors.
The number of visits to the Department for consultation and
research was 3,170.
DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY. 155
VII.— Demonstrations.
Demonstrations on the collections have been given by Dr. Rendle
to members of the Quekett Microscopical Club, of the Selborne
Society, of the Lambeth Field Club, and of the Walthamstow
Natural History Society.
A. B. Rendle.
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The British Museum, Bloomsbury (including the Departments
of Printed Books and Maps, Manuscripts, Oriental Printed Books
and Manuscripts, Prints and Drawings, Hgyptian and Assyrian
Antiquities, Greek and Roman Antiquities, British and Medizeval
Antiquities and Ethnography, and Coins and Medals), is open free
to the public on week-days (except on Good Friday and Christmas
Day and days of Public Fast or Thanksgiving) from 10 a.m. to
6 p.m.
But after 4 p.m. in January, February, November, December, and
after 5 p.m. in March and October, some only of the Galleries
remain open, viz. :—
Exhibitions of Manuscripts and Printed Books ;
On Mondays, Prehistoric, British, Anglo-Saxon, Oriental,
’ Wednesdays, Religious and Ethnographical Collections ;
and. Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Egyptian Rooms ;
Fridays. Assyrian and Babylonian Rooms; Glass, China,
and Medizeval Collections.
‘Egyptian, Assyrian, Greek and Roman Collec-
tions; Prehistoric, Terra-cotta, Gold Ornament,
Greek and Roman Life, Bronze and Vase
Rooms ; Mummy Rooms ; Prints and Drawings
Saturdays. Exhibition Gallery.
The Museum is open also on Sunday afternoons—
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Thursdays,
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» 2 to 5 p.m. in March and October.
,» 2to6p.m. April to September, inclusive.
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Newspaper Room and Manuscript Students’ Room trom 10 a.m. to
5 p.m., on every week-day except Good Friday, Christmas Day, and
the first four week-days in March and September.
British Museum, } Frederic G. Kenyon,
Ist April,1921. f Director and Principal Librarian.
ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
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The Exhibition Galleries of the British Museum (Natural
History), Cromwell Road, South Kensington, including the
Departments of Zoology, Entomology, Geology and Palwon-
tology, Mineralogy, and Botany, are open to the public, free
daily, except Good Friday and Christmas Day, and days of Public
Fast or Thanksgiving.
The Hours of Admission are as under :—
‘On WEEK-Days, throughout the year from 10 a.m., in
January and February Hak ons a eat EO helt ERT,
March . i we A ia set i ih BES" ey Er
April £0 September ho bs woe tr Pe GO fs
October, November and eserves oe As) Se ted ss
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September... “i ee Ae ae en ay O %9
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Novernber ‘and December’... oF A a hehe a
Persons are admitted to study in these Departments every week-
day from 10 till 4 o’clock.
On Sundays the following galleries are open, namely :—Central
Hall, North Hall, Bird Gallery, Mammal Galleries (including
Whale Room), Fossil Mammal Gallery, Fossil Reptile Gallery, and
Mineral Gallery.
British Museum (Natural History), ,) cs clbi pong he
1st April, 1921.
History Departments.
12 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
X.—GENERAL PROGRESS AT THE MusrEuM, BtLoomssury.
The evacuation of the Museum by the Departments installed
in some of the galleries during the war was completed in the
course of the first months of 1920. The Medical Research Commit-
tee quitted the Sub-ground Floor of King Edward the Seventh’s
Galleries on February 6th, and the Registry of Friendly Societies
completed their removal from the galleries belonging to the
Departments of Prints and Drawings and LKHgyptian and
Assyrian Antiquities on March 20th. The work of cleaning these
galleries and replacing the collections in them was taken in hand
at once. The three Mummy Rooms were reopened to the public
on May 24th, the Phcenician and Himyaritic Rooms on June 2ist,
the Fourth Egyptian Room, the exhibition gallery of Prints and
Drawings and half the Gallery of Ceramics and Medieval Col-
lections on July 15th, the Babylonian Room on July 31st, the
Students’ Room of the Department of Prints and Drawings on
August 3rd, and the Fifth and Sixth Egyptian Rooms on De-
cember 6th. At the end of the year the only portions of the
Museum remaining unopened were -two small rooms of the
Egyptian and Assyrian Department, and half the Ground Floor
Gallery in King Edward the Seventh’s Galleries, in which the |
collections of Oriental Ceramics, Glass, and a portion of the
Medieval collections were being installed.
Sunday opening of the galleries was resumed on November 7th.
The total number of visitors to the Museum was 851,483,
composed of 843,803 on week-days and 7,680 on the Sundays in
November and December. The figure for week-days is consider-
ably higher than in any previous year except 1913, and is more
than 150,000 in excess of the total for 1919 (691,650), when,
however, the galleries were only gradually reopening in the
course of the year. On the other hand the number of readers
visiting the Reading Room has not yet reached the pre-war
standard. The total of 147,145, though an increase on the
130,198 of 1919, is lower than the figure for 1915, while before
the war, ever since the beginning of the century, the total in-
variably exceeded 200,000 (except when the Room was closed
for cleaning), and in 1913 reached 243,659. Students visiting
other Departments amounted to 35,229, about double the number
in 1919 (when, however, several of the Students’ Rooms were not
open), and only a little less than in 1915. Had the Print Room
been open throughout the year the 1915 total would no doubt
have been exceeded.
The parties of the Guide Lecturers were well attended. Exact
figures cannot be given, since visitors join or leave the parties in
the course of the lectures, but the approximate figure is 35,670.
The number of separate objects incorporated in the several _
Departments during 1920 is as follows : —
Printed Books:
Books and Pamphlets - - - - = ) ore UE.
Serials and Parts of Volumes . - - - 83,447
Maps and Atlases - - - : : ; 1,812
GENERAL PROGRESS OF THE MUSEUM. 18
Printed Books—continued—
Music - - - - - - - - - 10,848
Newspapers (single numbers) - - - - 282,692
Miscellaneous - - - - - - - 1,852
Manuscripts and Seals’ - - - - : - 460
Oriental Printed Books and MSS. - - - - 1,890
Prints and Drawings - - - - - - 4,773
ys 5% (Oriental) - - - - 878
Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities - “ - - 2,047
Greek and Roman Antiquities - - : = - 66
British and Medizval Antiquities - - - - 1,614
Coins and Medals - - - - - - - 7,919
Total ~ - - - - 429,990
Of the total increaSe of 96,000, nearly the whole 1s accounted
for by an increase of 81,500 in the number of newspapers, but
most Departments show increases except the Department of
Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities.
Among the accessions described in the Departmental reports
that follow, a few of the most notable may be mentioned here.
The Department of Printed Books made considerable acquisitions
of early English and Spanish books—two branches of biblio-
eraphical research to which considerable attention is now being
paid. The Department of MSS. acquired at the Yates Thompson
sale a very valuable and early illuminated Life of St. Cuthbert,
written at*Durham at the end of the 12th century; and’ it
received a gift of special interest in the volume of Middle English
verse presented by a group of teachers of English in America,
as a mark of their sympathy with England during the war, and
of the assistance which they had derived from the British
Museum.
In the Department of Prints and Drawings the most important
single accessions were the album of drawings by a North Italian
artist (formerly supposed to be Mantegna), presented by Lord
Rosebery, and the very early portrait of Yoritomo, the first
Shogun of Japan.
The Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities
acquired a very fine papyrus roll, nearly 60 feet in length, con-
taining a late recension of the Book of the Dead, in a fuller
form than in any other known manuscript. The Department of
Greek and Roman Antiquities received by bequest from Lord
Astor a most attractive half-length bronze statue of a young
priestess, which was at one time stated, but without authority,
to be a portrait of Drusilla, Caligula’s sister, and to have been
dredged up from Lake Nemi. The Department also acquired a
particularly fine rock crystal gem, formerly in the Cockerell col-
lection; and it was fortunate in securing several interesting
Greek vases.
The Department of British and Medieval Antiquities was
enriched by a specially interesting gift, Mr. G. Eumorfopoulos
(a frequent and munificent benefactor of the Museum) having
elected to commemorate the completion of forty years’ service by
14 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
the Keeper, Sir Hercules Read, by presenting to the Museum a
rare and beautiful example of Chtin stoneware, of which the
existing specimens are few in number and_ proportionately
valuable. Another addition to the Chinese collections was a
wooden statue, more than life-size, of a Bodhisatva with remains
of the original paint and gilding, dating probably from the 12th
century. This was obtained through the good offices of the
National Art Collections Fund and other friends.
The Department of Coins and Medals secured a _ further
portion of the Weber collection of Greek Coins, but the most
interesting aceessions were two single pieces; one being an
example (only six others are known) of the silver decadrachm
supposed to have been struck at Athens in commemoration of the
victory over Persia, while the other is the second known example
of the Crown of the Rose, struck by Henry VIII., but withdrawn
after two months.
Publications issued during 1920:— ,
Guide to the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities
in the British Museum. Fifth edition, with illustrations, maps
and plans. 8vo. 2s. 6d.
A Guide to the Exhibition illustrating Greek and Roman
Life. Second Edition. 8vo. 2s. 6d.
How to Observe in Archeology. Suggestions for travellers
in the Near and Middle East. 8vo. 2s. 6d.
Grains and Grammes. A Table of Equivalents for the use of
Numismatists. S8vo. 3s.
Rules for compiling the Catalogues in the Department of
Printed Books in the British Museum. 8yvo. 2s. 6d.
Chinese Pottery Statue of a Lohan. 7 pp. text, with coloured
plate. 4to. Is.
Guide to the Antiquities of the Bronze Age in the Depart-
ment of British and Medieval Antiquities. Second Edition, with
10 plates and 195 illustrations. 8vo. 2s. 6d.
Summary Guide to the Exhibition Galleries of the British
Museum. Fourth Edition. With plans and ilustrations. 8vo.
4d. |
The Book of the Dead. Monograph by Sir E. A. W. Budge.
8vo. Is. 6d.
The Babylonian Story of the Deluge and the Epic of
Gilgamish. With an account of the Royal Libraries of Nineveh.
With 18 illustrations. 8vo. 1s. 6d.
Hittite Texts in the Cuneiform Character from Tablets in
the British Museum. 50 plates. Foolscap folio. 15s.
Cuneiform Texts from Babylonian Tablets in the British
Museum. Part XXX. 50 plates. Foolscap folio. 12s.
Guide to an Exhibition of Japanese Colour-Prints (from the
end of the 17th century to 1858). 8vo. 6d.
Frederic G. Kenyon,
Director and Principal Librarian.
British Museum, ;
Ist April, 1921.
DEPARTMENT OF PRINTED BOOKS. 15
XI.—PROGRESS made in the ARRANGEMENT AND DESCRIPTION
OF THE COLLECTIONS AND ACCOUNT OF OBJECTS ADDED
TO THEM in the year 1920 (Bloomsbury).
DEPARTMENT OF PRINTED Books.
I. Arrangement.—The works added to the collection during
the past year have, as far as possible, been placed on the shelves
of the Library according to the system of classification adopted in
the Museum. 4
The press-marks, indicating their respective localities, have
been marked on the inside and affixed to the back of each volume.
The total number of these press-marks amounts to 64,735; in
addition to which 36,092 press-marks have been altered on books
and in the catalogues, in consequence of changes and re-arrange-
ments carried out in the Library; 34,364 labels have been affixed
to books and volumes of newspapers, and 48,389 obliterated labels
been renewed.
The number of stamps impressed upon articles received is
406,456.
10,885 presses of books have been dusted in the course of the
year.
Il. Cataloguing.—46,957 titles have been written for the
General Catalogue and for the Catalogue of Maps and Music.
Printing.—84,450 titles and index-slips for the General, and
1,428 for the Map, Catalogue have been printed during the yeai.
Incorporation.—General Catalogue.—82,998 title-slips and
index-slips have been incorporated into each of the three copies
of the Catalogue. This has rendered it necessary, in order to
maintain as far as possible the alphabetical arrangement, to re-
arrange 04,723 title-slips and index-slips in each copy and to add
to each copy 461 new leaves.
Map Catalogue.—2,017 titles have been written for this Cata-
logue, and 1,734 title-slips have been incorporated into each of
three copies of it. This has rendered it necessary to re-arrange
‘eta title-slips in each copy and to add to each copy 21 new
eaves.
Music Catalogue.—8,096 titles have been written for this
catalogue ; 30,294 title-slips have been relaid on 2,207 new leaves.
Shelf Catalogue.—For this catalogue, in which the title-slips,
mounted on cards, are arranged in order of press-marks, 23,364
have been so mounted and 27,880 have been incorporated in their
proper order.
Special Catalogues.—Work has been continued on the Cata-
logue of Books printed in the XV th Century and progress made
with the Venetian Presses, which will occupy Part V.
16 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
A short-title catalogue of Spanish Books to the end of the
XVIth century has also been prepared.
Ii1.—Binding.—The number of volumes and sets of volumes
sent to be bound in the course of the year was 12,186, including
4,512 volumes of newspapers. In consequence of the frequent
adoption of the plan of binding two or more volumes in one, the
number of volumes returned was 9,738. In addition, 1,989
volumes have been repaired in the binders’ shops. ;
Besides this, the following binding work has been done in the
Library itself :—4,173 volumes have been repaired, 8,761 cleaned
and polished and 4,608 volumes bound in a light style of binding.
The following maps, etc., have also been bound or mounted
during the year:—13 atlases and 14 volumes of the 25-inch
Ordnance Survey have been bound; in addition, 395 general maps,
in 957 sheets, have been mounted on linen, 10 maps, in 186 sheets,
mounted on cards, and 147 Admiralty Charts mounted on lnen.
49,490 numbers of Colonial newspapers have been made up
into 1,095 parcels and the parcels tied up and labelled.
109 volumes of the General Catalogue have been broken up
and rebound, and 10 volumes of the Music Catalogue.
IV.—Reading Room Service.—The number of volumes re-
placed in the General Library after use in the Reading Room was
481,475; in the King’s Library, 14,364; in the Grenville Library,
2,140; in the Map Room, 3,566; in the presses in which books are
kept from day to day for the use of readers, 659,246; and in the
Oriental Department, 1,910; making a total of 1,162,701 volumes
supplied to readers during the year, exclusive of those to which
the readers: have personal access on the shelves of the Reading
Room. The number of readers during the year was 147,140,
‘giving an average of 484 daily—the room having been open on
304 days.
Newspaper Room.—The number of readers during the year
was 10,880, giving a daily average of 36—the room having been
open on 304 days. The number of volumes replaced after use was
49,492, giving a daily average of 163, not reckoning volumes taken
from the shelves by the readers themselves. In addition, 1,372
country newspapers were brought up to the Library from the
Repository at Hendon for the use of readers.
Map Room.—3817 students were admitted to the Map Room.
Photography.—There were 296 applications for leave to photo-
graph from books in the Library and 787 volumes were supplied
for this purpose. ;
V. Accessions.—General Library.—29,397 complete volumes
and pamphlets have been added to the General Library during the
year. Of these, 7,818 were presented, 14,501 received by Copy-
right, 687 by Colonial Copyright, 1,133 by International Ex-
change, and 5,858 acquired by purchase.
83,447 parts or volumes of serial publications and of works in
progress have been added to the General Library. Of these, 6,485
DEPARTMENT OF PRINTED BOOKS. be
were presented, 53,463 received by Copyright, 601 by Colonial
Copyright, 1,647 by International Exchange, and 21,301 acquired
by purchase.
Maps.—59 atlases, 178 parts of atlases, and 1,575 maps in
3,991 sheets have been added to the collection during the year.
Of these, 15 atlases, 24 parts and 976 maps were presented; 27
atlases, 81 parts of atlases and 482 maps received by Copyright;
13 atlases and 18 maps by Colonial Copyright; 2 parts of atlases
and 1 map by International Exchange; and 4 atlases, 69 parts of
atlases and 976 maps acquired by purchase.
Music.—10,843 musical publications have been added to the
collection during the year. Of these, 1 book was presented, 9,890
books and 1,251 parts received by Copyright, 774 books by
Colonial Copyright, and 178 books and 128 parts acquired by
purchase.
Newspapers.—The number of newspapers published in the
United Kingdom and received under the provisions of the Copy-
right Act during the year was 3,079, comprising 204,665 single
numbers. Of these newspapers, 1,141 were published in London
and its suburbs, 1,439 in other parts of England and Wales, 284
in Scotland, and 215 in Ireland. 39 sets, comprising 11,422
single numbers, were received by Colonial Copyright; 1 set, com-
prising 434 single numbers, by International Exchange; 353 sets,
comprising 50,116 single numbers, have been presented; and 90
sets, comprising 16,055 single numbers, acquired by purchase.
Miscellaneous.—1,852 articles not included in the foregoing
paragraphs have been received, consisting of single sheets, photo-
graphs and postage stamps.
Acquisitions of Special Interest.
The following is a list of the most important and interesting
books, maps’ and music, acquired by presentation or purchase
during the year: —
Books printed in the 15th century.
Mapheus Vegius, Carmen de morte Astyanactis. Robertus de
Fano and Bernardinus de Bergamo, Cagli, 1475. The first book
printed at Cagli, and a very rare tract.
S. Francis of Assisi, Fioretti. Giovanni Lionardo Longo,
Vicenza, 1476. The first edition of the Fioretti and the first
known product of Longo’s press.
Augustinus Datus, Eloquentie precepta. Leonardus
fPachel] and Henricus [Scinzenzeler], Milan, 1478. The
only book known to have been produced by this partnership.
Zeichen der falschen Gulden. [Anton Sorg, Augsburg, about
1480.] A placard, with woodcuts of base coin in circulation.
No sheet of this kind was previously represented in the Museum
collection.
Psalterium cum canticis. Bartholomeus Ghotan, Magdeburg,
1481. A fine copy of one of two dated hooks known to belong
te this press, both of which are very rare. Presented by Major
George Anson.
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Heinrich Miintzinger, Das Pater noster mit der Gloss, etc.
Anton Sorg, Augsburg, 1482. <A rare collection of devotional
tracts and a good specimen of Augsburg vernacular printing.
Diogenes Laertius, Vita de’filosofi. Jacobus Caroli and Petrus
Honofrii, Florence, 1489. The work done by these printers
jointly was not previously represented in the Museum collection,
and specimens of it rarely occur.
Year Books, 1 and 3-8, Edward IV. [Richard Pynson,
London, about 1492 and 1495.] Of most of these seven Year
Books only one other copy is known to exist. The first is a
variant issue of an edition already represented in the Museum.
Offcium pro festo Visitationis B. V. Marie. [Richard
Pynson, London, about 1492.] An apparently hitherto un-
recorded product of Pynson’s press. Presented by Major George
Anson.
Votiuale Missarum. Valentin Fernandez, Lisbon, 1496. The
only known copy of this service book, the existence of which had
not previously been recorded.
English Books of the 16th and lith centuries.
The Kalendar of Shyppars. Antoine Vérard, Paris, 1503. A
Scots translation of the ‘‘ Kalendrier des bergers,’’ with fine
woodcuts. Only two other copies are known, one of which, like
the present, 1s umperfect.
Terentit Comediz a Guidone Iuuenale illustrate. Josse
Bade, Paris, for Wynkyn de Worde, Michael Morin and Joannes
Brachius, London, 1504. The only book known to have been
printed for De Worde in conjunction with these two partners.
Presented by Major George Anson.
Nicholas Udall, Floures for Latine Spekynge selected oute of
Terence. T. Berthelet, London, 1533. The first edition.
Sir Geoffrey Fenton, Monophylo. W. Seres, London, 1572.
R. S. [Robert Smythe], Straunge, lamentable and tragicall
Hystories. H. Jackson, London, 1577.
The Mirror of Princely Deedes and Knighthood, translated
by M. T. [Margaret Tyler]. T. East, London [1578|. The first
part only.
John Lyly, Euphues and his England. T. East for G.
Cawood, London, 1580. Belonging to one or other of the first
three editions. Presented by S. R. Christie-Miller, Esq.
Thomas Howell His Deuises, London, 158]. Wanting the
title and two following leaves. Only one. perfect copy is known.
Arthur of Little Britaine [translated by Lord Berners].
‘T. Kast, London [1582].
Palmerin d’Oliva, turned into English by Anthony Munday.
The first part. I. Charlewood for W. Wright, London, 1588.
The first edition.
Claude Colet, The famous Historie of Palladine of England,
translated by Anthony Munday. E. Allde for J. Perin, London,
1588.
The History of Palmendos, translated by Anthony Munday.
T. GC. for S. Watson, London, 1589.
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H. R. [| Henry Roberts], A Defiance to Fortune proclaimed by
Andrugio. I. Proctor, London, 1590.
Henry Barrow, A brief Discoverie of the false Church.
[Dort?], 1590.
Etienne de Maison Neuve, Gerileon of England, translated by
Anthony Munday. C. Burbie, London, 1592.
Barnaby Rich, The Adventures of Brusanus, Prince of Hun-
garia. T. Adames, London, 1592.
The first Book of Primaleon of Greece. C. Burby, London,
1599.
Henry Roberts, Pheander, the Mayden-Knight. T. Creede,
London, 1595. The only known copy.
Richard Johnson, the second Part of the History of the Sea-
uen Champions of Christendome. C. Burbie, London, 1597.
Heroicall Adventures of the Knight of the Sea, Prince
Oceander. W. Leake, London, 1600.
William Browne, Britannia’s Pastorals. T. Snodham for
G. Norton, London, 16[13]-16. The first part is of the rare first
issue, afterwards freely altered by the author and reprinted for
publication with the second part.
Sir Richard Beling, A sixth Booke to the Countesse of Pem-
broke’s Arcadia. Society of Stationers, Dublin, 1624.
John Cameron, A Tract of the Soveraigne Judge of Contro-
versies. W. Turner for H. Curteine, Oxford, 1628. Presented
by Falconer Madan, Esq.
The Famous History of George, Lord Fauconbridge. I. B.
for J. Wright, London, 1635.
T. D. [Thomas Deldney | The Gentle Craft. The first part.
R. Bird, London, 1637. Believed to be unique.
Thomas Godwin, Romane historie anthologia. L. Lich-
field for H. Crypps, Oxford, 16388. Presented by Falconer
Madan, Esq.
John Prideaux, Bishop of Worcester, Tabule ad grammatica
greca introductorie. lL. Lichfield for E. Pearse and T. Allam,
Oxford, 1639. Presented by Falconer Madan, Esq.
The Noble Birth and Gallant Atchievements of Robin Hood.
T. Vere and W. Gilbertson, London, 1662. Presented by S. R.
Christie-Miller, Esq.
[| Gauthier de Baste. Seigneur de la Calprenéde], Pharamond
or the History of France, rendered into English by John Davies
of Kidwelly. N. Brook and §. Speed, London, 1662.
[John Wilson, Recorder of Londonderry], The Cheats, a
comedy. Q. Bedell, T. Collins, C. Adams, London, 1664.
The true and admirable History of Patient Greed. J. Wright,
J. Clarke, etc., London, 1682.
Sir ae Child, A new Discourse of Trade. J. Everingham,
London, 1698.
[Sir Richard Steele], The Procession, a poem on Her
Majesties Funeral. By a Gentleman of the Army. T. Bennet,
London, 1695. Steele’s first published work.
Be
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Early Spanish Books.
Las Epistolas de Seneca en romance. P. Hagembach, Toledo,
1502. With woodcuts.
Antoninus, Summa de confession llamada Defecerunt. P.
Hagembach, Toledo, 1504.
Ramon Lull, Arbor scientiae. P. Posa, Barcelona, 1505.
With woodcuts.
Fasciculus myrrhe nueuamente corregido.. J. Varela, Seville,
1518.
Ramon Lull, Blanquerna. J. Joffre, Valencia, 1521. A speci-
men of a very rare edition, in the original Valencian, of this
famous work.
Cristobal de San Antonio, Triumphus Iesu Christi contra
infideles. Salamanca, 1524. A very rare edition.
Gamaliel nueuamente traduzido. D. de Robertis, Seville,
1536. With woodcuts.
Martin Cortes, Breve compendio de Ja sphera y de la arte de
navegar. A. Alvares, Seville, 1551. The first edition of a famous
treatise on navigation. With maps.
La Historia de los dos nobles cavalleros Oliveros de Castilla y
Artus de Algarve. P. de Santillana, Burgos, 1553.
Recibimiento que la Ciudad de Toledo hizo a la Reyna Ysabel.
Toledo, 1561. A very rare historical work.
Relacio delo sucedido ala Armada de Su Magestad desde que
entro ene] Canal de Inglaterra. C. de Lara, Seville [1588]. A
hitherto undescribed report, printed at an otherwise unknown
press, on the operations of the Spanish Armada.
Henrique Visorio, Anagramma de la vida humana. A.
Alvares and A. Lopez, Lisbon, 1590. An otherwise unknown
Spanish poem.
Later Books.
Vergil, Traductieou de 1’Eneido [books 1, 2, 4, 6]. Besies,
1682. A translation into the dialect of the Narbonnais.
A collection of over 200 German hymnological works, including
numerous hymn-books for local use, the earliest dating from the
17th century.
A collection of fifty-nine works, complete in seventy-two
volumes, printed by or under the superintendence of Mr. Bruce
Rogers, mostly at the Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass.
A complete set, including all the supplements, of ‘‘ La Libre
Belgique,’’ published in Belgium during the German occupation.
A copy of the Shelley Society’s reprint of ‘“‘ Adonais’’ bound
in brown morocco with gold tooling by T. J. Cobden-Sanderson in
1888. Presented by T. J. Cobden-Sanderson, Esq.
A volume of photographs of an early Greek manuscript of the
Psalms now in the Freer Collection at Washington. Presented
by Charles Lang Freer, Esq.
Music.
Theobaldus Billicanus, De partium orationis inflexionibus.
[Wittenberg], 1526. With specimens of musical settings of
Horatian Odes, a very early instance of such settings.
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Claude Gervaise, Quart liure contenant xxvj. chansons
musicalles a troys parties. Paris, 1550.
John Adson, Courtly Masquing Ayres composed to 5 or 6
parts. T.S. for John Brown, London, 1621. Six parts in one
volume. ;
Walter Porter, Madrigales and Ayres. W. Stansby, London,
1632. The only perfect copy known.
John Gamble, Ayres and Dialogues, London, 1656, and the
Second Book of the same, London, 1659. With a power of
attorney signed by the composer inserted. Of the Second Book
only two other copies appear to be on record.
A volume of compositions by Bach and Mendelssohn, once in
Mendelssohn’s possession and with his autograph, also a volume
of first editions of compositions by Schumann with autograph
inscriptions by him.
Maps.
The first and second issue of Le Théatre Francois par Maurice
Bouguereau, Tours, 1594, and three editions (Paris, 1621, 1626,
1637) of the Théatre géographique du Royaume de France, these
additions making the Museum set of early French atlases excep-
tionally complete. Presented by Sir H. George Fordham.
A collection of 102 maps, containing some very fine specimens
of 18th-century cartography, among them a number of excellent
Joa county maps. Presented by R. Holland Martin, Esq.,
C.B.
A collection of thirty-nine maps and plans of Western
Flanders, of the period around 1850, including Ypres, Dixmude,
Nieuport, etc., of interest as giving in great detail the land
on which many battles were fought during the War.
Alfred W. Pollard.
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DEPARTMENT OF MANUSCRIPTS.
1. Catalogue of Additions.—Egerton MS. 2901, acquired in
1913, has been described and indexed,
Of the MSS. acquired in 1914, Additional 38,988-38,996,
39,021-39,048, 39,060, 39,064—-39,066, 39,068, 39,069, 39,072-
39,075, 39,079, 39,080, 39,091-39,096, 39,098-39,119, 39,121-
39,164; of those acquired in 1915, Additional 39,218-39,252; of
those acquired in 1916, Additional 89,259-39,264; of those
acquired in 1917, Additional 39,569, 39,625-89,628, 39,658, and
Egerton 2,973, 2,977; of those acquired in 1918, Additional
39,757, Egerton 3,018; of those acquired in 1919, Additional
39,840-39,842, 39,848-39,859, 39,865, 39,866, 39,907; and of
those acquired in 1920, Additional 39,929-39,936, 39,954, 39,955
have been described and indexed.
The Charters and Detached Seals acquired in 1911-1915 have
been described and indexed for the quinquennial Catalogue of
Additions.
2. Catalogue of Greek Papyri.—The Papyri acquired in 1911—
1915 have been described and indexed for the quinquennial Cata-
logue of Additions.
Papyri 2,103-2,182, acquired in 1920, have been provisionally
transcribed.
For the projected Catalogue of Literary Papyri, Papyri 272,
spel an 736, 886, 1,545, 1,862, 1,873, and 2,037 have been tran-
scribed.
3. Catalogue of the Royal and King’s MSS.—Sheets Z—Pp of
Vol. III., completing the general index and the index of Greek
initia, and beginning that of Latin initia, have been printed off,
and sheet Qq is in type. The introductions to Vols. I. and IIT.
are in type. The revision of the index of initia has been con-
tinued.
4. Catalogue of Irish MSS.—The revision of the section
Theology is nearly completed, and that of the sections Poetry and
Tales is in progress.
5. Catalogue of Charters.—Additional Charters 57,769—57,805,
58,271-58,335, acquired in 1913, have been described and indexed.
6. Miscellaneous.—A list of original Papal Bulls and Briefs
in the Department has been compiled.
7. Binding.—One hundred and twenty-three Additional MSS.,
newly acquired, and ninety-eight MSS. of the old collections have
been bound, repaired, or lettered, together with seventy-seven
Books of Reference and Catalogues. Three Charters and Rolls
have been repaired.
8. Verification.—The entire collection of MSS. has been veri-
fied by comparison with the Shelf-lists.
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9. Reproductions.—Three reproductions of miniatures in
colours (Royal MS. 15 D. II., f. 3, and Additional MSS. 18,850,
f. 65, and 25,698, f. 8) and one set of Pictorial Postcards (Life
of St. Cuthbert) have been issued; and two further sets of Pic-
torial Postcards (Calendar-pictures from Queen Mary’s Psalter)
have been passed.
Part III. (English, 13800-1350) of Schools of Illumination is
im preparation.
10. Stamping, foltoing, and placing.—128 Additional MSS.,
344 Charters and Rolls, 124 Books of Reference and 161 Post-
cards have been stamped. The total number of impressions made
was 9,169.
180 MSS. have been folioed, with a total of 43,832 folios.
4,290 slips have been numbered.
50 newly acquired MSS. and 26 Papyri have been placed, and
7 MSS. and 11 Papyri have been re-placed. All have been press-
marked and entered in Hand-‘and Shelf-lists. 168 Additional
Charters and Rolls have been placed, and have been entered in
the Hand-list. 85 seals and casts have been provided with boxes,
placed, and entered in Hand- and Drawer-lists.
11. Books of Reference.—125 volumes and parts, together with
161 postcards and 2 reproductions, have been received, catalogued
and placed.
Seven volumes and parts have been added to the series of
Facsimiles placed in the Department and available for the use of
readers. These include a noteworthy addition in an unpublished
photographic reproduction of the text of Euripides in the
Laurentian MS. (Plut. xxxii. 2), presented by J. A. Spranger,
Esq.
12. Consultation of MSS.—19,827 MSS. and 2,632 Charters °
and Seals have been consulted in the Students’ Room. The
number of Students was 7,340.
13. MSS. photographed.631 MSS. (including Papyri, Char-
ters, and Seals) were allowed to be photographed, with a total of
7,906 photographs taken.
14. Acqutsitions.—The number of Manuscripts and Docu-
ments, etc., acquired during the year has been : —
Additional MSS. - 2 a - < 98
Egerton MSS. - - = - - 4
Charters and Rolls = arte fe Bw hlgel ov
Papyri - = is = = = - 138
Detached Seals and Casts = = - 63
The most interesting acquisition of the year is the illuminated
Life of St. Cuthbert, written at Durham at the end of the 12th
century. This important work of North of England art, which
came up in the second sale of Mr. Yates Thompson’s MSS., was
beyond the unaided reach of the Museum funds, and appeals were
necessary, not only to the National Art Collections Fund, which
provided £1,000, but also to the generosity of individuals. Mainly
24 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
through the help of Dr. F. W. Dendy of Newcastle, this appeal
raised from fourteen donors a further £2,000, and the Trustees
provided the rest of the purchase-money.
Another acquisition, of importance in itself and of great
interest from the circumstances of its presentation, 1s a volume
of Middle English religious verse written in the 15th century,
including several unique and unpublished pieces. It was selected
and purchased (by private arrangement with the owners)
from the Phillipps collection at Cheltenham by Dr. Carleton
Brown, Professor of English in the University of Minnesota,
acting on behalf of a number of teachers of English in American
Colleges and Universities. These subscribers, to use their own
words, having ‘‘ enjoyed the privilege of reading in the British
Museum, desire to convey to the authorities of the Museum our
grateful appreciation of the courtesies so generously accorded to
students from abroad,’’ with the hope that this gift ‘‘ may have
its influence in strenethening the cordial bonds which unite
British and American scholars.’’ It is to be known as ‘ The
American Testimonial MS.”’
The Gospel-Book of Thorney Abbey, written, perhaps on the
Continent, in the 10th century, has been used as a “‘ Liber Vitae,’’
to record long lists of benefactors and others whose names were
commemorated in the monks’ prayers in the 11th and 12th cen-
turies. It was purchased at Lord Mostyn’s sale.
Other monastic records acquired are the Chartulary of Brid-
lington Priory, 13th—14th centuries; a portion (D-J) of the large
15th century coucher-book of Fountains Abbey, of which two
other volumes were already in the Museum; a rental and an
accompt-book of the same monastery; and a 14th century chartu-
lary of the collegiate church or chantry of Shottesbrooke in
‘Berkshire. The last was purchased from the Farnborough Fund.
Also an inventory and rental of Pershore Abbey, 1376, presented
by R. Steele, Esq.
A copy of the minor works of the historian Ralph de Diceto,
purchased at Sir W. Ingilby’s sale, is apparently the original
presentation-copy to Wilkiam Longchamp, the Chancellor, about
A.D. 1195.
A Spanish sacramentary of the early part of the 13th century
is a notable addition to the representation of Spanish illumination
in the Museum.
A 138th-century Latin Bible is valuable from its correctorium-
notes in the margin. ~
A small roll-calendar of the late 13th century has English
illuminated ornament.
A volume of French romances of the cycle of Fierabras, of the
middle of the 14th century, and a well-drawn armorial of English
nobility, about 1440, with some Flemish additions, were both
bought from the Bridgewater Fund.
Other manuscripts worthy of mention are : —
Catullus, Tibullus and Propertius, 15th century. Purchased
from the Farnborough Fund.
A small expense-roll of Edmund, Earl of Lancaster, 1294.
DEPARTMENT OF MANUSCRIPTS. 20
Justiee-book of Philippe de la Crux, 1469-1476. Presented
by hk. Steele, Lsq.
Visitation of Cheshire, 1566, with a chronicle of the mayors of
Chester.
Formulary-book for the Courts Palatine of Chester and Lan-
caster, 18th century.
Narrative of voyages to Guinea and parts of the West Indies,
&c., 1714-1716.
‘* Aristides,’? an anonymous pamphlet against Lord St.
Vincent’s naval administration, 1804.
Diary and papers of Wilham Erskine (1773-1852), translator
of Baber’s Memoirs. Presented by Mrs. H. Beveridge.
Minute-book of the National Union of the Working Classes,
1831. Presented by Professor Edwin Gay.
Manual of Artillery, copied at Wreainieb R.M.A. by Colling-
wood Dickson, afterwards V.C., in 1835. Presented by Lt.-Col.
wok. Leshe.
Specifications for the re-erection of the Crystal Palace at
Sydenham, 1852. Presented by Rev. H. Chadwick.
Vocabulary of the Romany language by Rev. R. N. Sander-
son. Presented by E. J. Beawmont Nesbitt, Esq.
Holograph letter of Louis XIV. to Charles ie relating to the
secret treaty of 1676.
Correspondence (50 letters) of ee Mackenzie, Earl of
Cromarty, chiefly with Lord Treasurer Godolphin, 1703-1708.
Collection of about 80 letters, chiefly relating to the Jacobites,
from the Hodgkin collection.
Correspondence of the Twining family, especially Rev.
Thomas Twining, translator of Aristotle, 1735-1804, etc.
Letters (21) of Lieut. Robert ogles Tth Piciiens, during
the Peninsular War, 1809-1813. Presented by Sur Lees Knowles,
Bart.
Supplementary letters to the Huskisson Papers, chiefly letters
addressed to William Huskisson’s widow. Two volumes.
Select correspondence, other than scientific, of Sir Richard
Owen. Presented by C. D. Sherborn, Esq.
Autograph poems by George Meredith and Sir William
Watson, and letters of Swinburne, Matthew Arnold, A. H.
Clough ‘and others. Bequeathed by Sir E. T. Cook.
Autograph letter of Dr. Isaac Watts, 1745. Presented by
Mrs. EK. K. Drwmmond.
Autograph letter of William Hogarth, 1758. Presented by F.
Tessier, Esq.
Autograph letters of Horace Walpole (to Chatterton), Gilbert
Elliot (Lord Minto), Henri Murger, Bernardin de St. Pierre,
Ivan Tourgeneff and others.
Situation-map of the Western Front in the Great War, 25th
September, 1918, signed by F.M. Earl Haig. Also a memoran-
dum concerning operations on that front during his command.
The latter is sealed up, and not to be opened till. 1940. Pre-
sented by Earl Haig.
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Collections relating to Hampshire and Berkshire by F. J.
Baigent. 34 vols. and two series of rolls. Presented by H. E.
Cardinal Gasquet.
_ Collections by Daniel Howard on the history of Portsmouth.
Presented by Mrs. EK. R. Howard.
Twenty-five rubbings of monumental brasses by Rev. F. E.
Scott. Presented by Mrs. Scott.
Plans of ancient earthworks in co. Monmouth, by Rev. E. A.
Downman.
Harpsichord solos by Dr. Arne, Handel and others, in Dr.
Charles Burney’s hand, 1744. Presented by A. Hughes-Hughes,
Esq.
et 138 Greek papyri, chiefly of the Roman and Byzantine
periods, and mainly from Oxyrhynchus.
Early deeds from Spain, a remarkable series of seventy-nine,
from the neighbourhood of Barcelona, mostly dated in the 10th
and 11th centuries.
A document with signatures of Gian Galeazzo and Ludovico
Maria Sforza-Visconti, 1480. Presented by Dr. A. S. Woodward.
Deeds (53) relating to Tudworth and the Lumley family, from
the 13th century onwards.
J. P. Gilson.
DEPARTMENT OF ORIENTAL PRINTED BOOKS AND MSS. ot
DEPARTMENT OF ORIENTAL PRINTED Books anp MSS.
Arrangement and Cataloguing.—The number of the sheets of
the Catalogue of Persian Printed Books sent to press in 1920
was 20. .
The number of titles written for the Catalogues is:—
Arabic, 723; Armenian, 3; Assamese, 24; Bengali, 272;
Brahui, 2; Burmese, 54; Chin, 8; Chinese, 111; Coptic, 2;
Gujarati, 124; Hebrew and Samaritan, 694; Hindi, 300; Hindu-
stani, 184; Japanese, 25; Kachin, 6; Kanarese, 89; Karen, 12;
Kashmiri, 44; Khasi, 6; Kond, 3; Malay, 188; Malayalam, 10;
Mandaean, 8; Manipuri, 3; Marathi, 144; Mikir, 6; Naga, 3;
North Aryan (Khotanese), 2; Oriya, 71; Pali, 23; Panjabi, 87;
Persian, 664; Prakrit, 64; Pushtu, 4; Sanskrit, 435; Santali, 3;
Siamese, 9; Sindhi, 16; Sinhalese, 11; Syriac, 40; Talaing, 8;
’ Tamil, 328; Telugu, 266; Tibetan, 58; Total, 5,137.
One thousand one hundred and thirteen Chinese MSS. have
been catalogued for the Hand-list of the Stein Collection.
One hundred and thirteen short descriptions of MSS. have
been entered in the Descriptive List, the Register, and the
Classed Inventory.
Three hundred and eighty-nine MSS. (71,779 folios) and seven
printed books (1,017 folios) have been folioed.
Binding.—The number of Printed Books and MSS. sent to
the binders is:—Arabic, Persian and Hindustani Books, 57;
Chinese Books, 9; English Books, 4; French Books, 1; Hebrew
Books, 146; Malay Books, 1; Books in Sanskrit and other Indian
languages, 124; Siamese Books, 25; Uighur Books, 2; MSS.,
379. Total, 748.
Students.—The number of visits of Students to the Oriental
Students’ Room attached to this Department during the year is
1,926. The number of Oriental MSS. used by them is 2,295, and
the number of Oriental Printed Books used by them is 12,857.
1,910 Oriental Printed Books were used in the Reading Room.
Photography.—One hundred and thirty-two applications have
been made to photograph books and MSS. in this Department.
Additions.—The number of volumes, etc., added to the col-
lections of the Department during the year is 1,890, of which
1,817 are Printed Books and 73 are MSS.
Of the Printed Books, 327 were bought; 1,295 were received
under the India Copyright Act; 21 were received under the
Colonial Copyright Act from Ceylon; and 184 were presented.
Of the MSS., 57 were bought and the remainder presented.
28 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
The MSS. are as follows :—
Arabic
Armenian
Chinese ...
Coptic
Hebrew ..
Hindustani . a8
Manchu and Chinese ...
Persian
Sanskrit ... a a
Sanskrit and Khotanese
Syriac ae
Syriac and Arabic
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Tibetan
Total
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The most important acquisitions are :—
Arabic MSS.—1. A fragment on vellum containing an Arabic
version (apparently unknown) of the Epistles from Ephesians ii.,
10, to Il. Timothy i1., 12, in a fine early hand, perhaps of the
9th century. 12°.
2. A MS. containing a detailed criticism of Islam, apparently
from the Jewish standpoint; incomplete at the beginning and
end. llth or 12th century. 8°. Apparently unique.
3. A letter in Jewish-Arabic from Semah Hakkohén ben
Samuel to Abu Ishak Ibrahim. a.p. 1151.
4. Ijtima‘at al-falasifah fi buyut il-hikmah, sayings of the
Greek philosophers, by Hunain b. Ishak. Nearly the first quarter
of the work, two quires being lost at the beginning. 12th
century. 12°. Only one other copy is on record.
5. A Jewish-Arabic commentary by Sa‘adyah Gaon on the
two Songs of Moses. Followed by translations of parts of the
Jewish liturgy. 12th century. 12°. Apparently otherwise un-
known.
6. AMS. containing four grammatical works, viz., al-Anbari’s
Mizan al-‘arabiyah and Asrar al-‘arabiyah, al-Jurjani’s al-Jumal,
and al-Murtajal, a commentary on the last by ‘Abd Allah b.
Ahmad al-Khassab. With an zjdzah in the handwriting of
Ahmad b. ‘Ali b. Ahmad al-Kufi, called Ibn al-Fasih. Copied
A.H. 661 (a.D. 12638). 8°.
7. A letter in Jewish-Arahic to Ibn al-Rabi‘ Sulaiman
Hakkohén b. Abi Zakariya. 13th century?
8. Al-Risalat al-mukni‘ah, a work on the recitation of the
bismillah formula at prayers, by Abu ‘l-Fath Salim b. Aiyub
al-Razi; transmitted by the author’s disciple Abu ‘l-Fath Nasr
b. Ibrahim al-Makdisi, and collated with a MS. corrected from
the author’s holograph.. Copied a.H. 737 (A.D. 1836-37). 12°.
No other copy seems to be recorded.
9. Part 2 of al-Ihatah fi akhbar il-Ghirnatah, a biographical
dictionary of famous men of Granada, by Lisan al-Din Ibn al-
Khatib. Copied a.w. 780 (A.D. 1878)? 4°. An important
work; MSS. are rare.
DEPARTMENT OF ORIENTAL PRINTED BOOKS AND MSS. 29
10. Al-Tabyin fi ansab il-kurashiyin, genealogies of the
Prophet Muhammad and his descendants and followers of the
tribe of Kuraish, by Muwaffik al-Din ‘Abd Allah b. Ahmad ibn
Kudamah al-Makdisi. Copied a.w. 795 (a.p. 1393). 12°.
11. A work on ethics, apparently the ‘Akabat of al-Ghazzali.
loth century. 12°. Not otherwise known.
12. Fath rabb al-barriyah, a commentary by Ahmad b. Hasan
al-Sandubi on al-Kas: at al-makariyah, an elegy on the kings of
Spain, by Ahmad b. Muh. al-Makari. 15th-l6th century. 8°.
13. Matali‘ al-anzar, a commentary by Mahmid b. ‘Abd _ ail-
Rahman al-Isfahani on al-Baidawi’s metaphysic Tawali‘ al-
es 16th century. 8°. Presented by Colonel R. H. Whit-
well.
14. A MS. containing part of Ta’wilat al-Kur’an, the com-
mentary of Hasan b. Muh. al-Nishabtri on the Kur’an (viz., on
Surah 78 to the end), etc., XVIIth-XVIIIth century. 8.
Presented by Colonel R. H. Whitwell.
15. The Old Testament in the Jewish-Arabic dialect of the
Aleppo district. XVIIIth-XIXth centuny. 8°.
16. A collection of Egyptian folk-songs, compiled by ‘ Abd
al-Malik b. ‘Abd al-Wahhab al-Fitni. 2 vols. XIJXth century.
8%
Chinese MSS.—1. ‘‘ The Old Drunkard’s Arbour,’’ a com-
position written in 1048 a.p. by Ou-yang Hsiu; copied in calli-
graphic style by Su Shih (1036-1101). With many notes of
appreciation by various scholars, the first dated a.p. 1848. Roll.
2. An essay on the art of handwriting, written by the artist
and calligrapher Mi Fei, and dated a.p. 1080. Roll.
3. Facsimiles of writing by the poet Ts‘ao Tzu-chien (a.p.
192-232) and by Ssi-t‘u Chung-yu. Rell.
4. An ink-rubbing of a specimen of writing by the calli-
grapher Ou-yang Hstin (A.D. 567-645).
5. Black-and-white drawings and calligraphy, with notes of
appreciation by various scholars. Roll.
6. Pen-and-ink drawings of orchids, etc., with calligraphy.
Roll.
7. Specimens of calligraphy by the artists Chao Méng-fu
(4.p. 1310) and Tung Ch‘i-ch‘ang (a.p. 1582).
8. An album of calligraphy by the Ming artist Tung Ch‘-
ch‘ang, with a specimen by the poet Lo Pin-wang (7th century).
9. A volume of specimens of Ming calligraphy .
10. A volume of specimens of calligraphy by 26 artists under
the reigns of Shun Chih and K‘ang Usi (a.p. 1644-1722).
11. A volume of calligraphy on silk, by various artists.
12. The P‘i p‘a hsing, written in calligraphic style by the
Ming artist Tung Ch‘i-ch‘ang.
30 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
A 13. A volume of calligraphy in cursive style by Liang Shan-
chou.
14. Ch‘in ting kuo shih to ch‘én leh chuan, vol. 121 of the
Mlanchu dynastic records, containing biographies.
15. Vol. Il., ch. 6-10 of Ta ch‘ing mu tsung i huang ti shéng
hstin, Imperial edicts. In an embroidered case.
16. Ping ling fang liieh, a collection of works on the military
art. 6 parts, in brocaded cover.
17. Huo lung shén ch‘i, a work on military weapons, etc. 3
parts, in brocaded cover.
18. Yu t‘u pien lan, a geography of China, with maps. 4
vols.
19. Chien cha hui ts‘un, an album of letters.
20. A collection of seal-impressions with decipherment. 4
vols.
21. A collection of seal-impressions. 2 vols.
22. An examination of the Japanese ‘‘ Spirit Character,’’
believed to be identical with the ancient “‘ Tadpole Script”’ of
China. Translated into Chinese by Shén Wén-ying, and revised
by his brother Shén Wén-wei. 4°. Presented by Colonel R. H.
W hatwell.
Hebrew MSS.—1. Gan Yéhdshiia‘, i.e. pt. 3 of the “Asé
Lébhénah, a commentary on the section Nashim of ‘En Yisra’él
by Joshua Segri. Autograph copy, in an Italian cursive hand.
XVIIIth century. 4°.
2. Discourses of Israel Benjamin Basan. Autograph copy. 4
vols., in an Italian-cursive hand. Copied 4.p. 1740-93. Fol.
3. A vellum strip containing (1) a contract of marriage and
(2) a bill of divorce, of a.p. 1065.
Manchu and Chinese MS.—1. Part of a collection of Imperial
seals of the Ching dynasty with decipherment.
Persian MS.—1. A fragment of a Jewish-Persian commen-
tary in the Book of Joshua. XIJIth century. 12°.
Syriac and Arabic MSS.—1. A collection of letters of Yusut
Odo, Chaldean Patriarch of Babylon. XIXth century.
L. D. BARNETT.
DEPARTMENT OF PRINTS AND DRAWINGS. 31
DEPARTMENT OF PRintTS AND DRAWINGS.
I.—Arrangement and Cataloguing, &c.
Arrangement.—212 drawings and 2,481 prints recently
acquired have been incorporated with the divisions of the collec-
tion to which they severally belong.
82 books of drawings and prints have been placed.
Much preliminary work has been done on the engravings pre-
sented by Lady Lucas, before incorporating them with the main
collection.
The whole of the select mezzotints of the Cheylesmore collec-
tion, now completely mounted in royal, imperial and atlas size,
have been incorporated with the mounted select mezzotints of the
old Museum collection, to complete the engravers’ works. The
atrangement is now alphabetical under engravers’ names, and
each case is arranged according to Chaloner Smith or other
standard catalogues. An alphabetical list of the engravers repre-
sented in the select English mezzotints has been drawn up. The
new references have been added to the Cheylesmore catalogue and
the catalogue of select English mezzotints. _ The ‘‘ royal’’ mezzo-
tints now occupy 79 cases, the imperial 48, and the atlas 44. In
addition, 15 mezzotints from the Cheylesmore collection have been
incorporated with the series of early mezzotints. A selection has
been made for special mounting from the mezzotints presented by
Lady Lucas, and 32 mezzotints by 8. W. Reynolds have been
added to the special series. The work of indexing mezzotints
placed with portraits and masters’ works has been continued.
Catalogue references have been printed on the mounts of the
drawings by Rembrandt and his school.
The whole engraved work of the Master E.S. has been col-
lected and re-arranged according to the catalogue by Max Lehrs
(Vol. II.), 19 engravings being re-mounted for this purpose. The
work of this engraver is now placed in four solander cases follow-
ing that which contains the engravings described in Lehrs, Vol. I.
The work of arranging the engravings described in Vol. IIT. has
been begun, but they are not yet fully mounted or lettered.
The work of re-arranging the engravings by Marcantonio
Raimondi in the order of Bartsch has been completed, and
references have been inserted in Bartsch, vol. XV.
The complete etched work of G. B. Tiepolo has been arranged
according to the catalogue of De Vesme, and detailed instructions
have been given for mounting it.
The reproductions of drawings by Clouet, Dumonstier and
Lagneau have been re-arranged.
The works of J. Perrissin and J. Tortorel have been marked
off in Robert-Dumesnil’s catalogue.
References to engravings by W. Faithorne have been inserted
in the catalogue by Fagan.
The collection of duplicate engravings available for loan has
been thoroughly revised, many specimens being eliminated and
32 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
others added. A new systematic list of the loan collection, which
will occupy 284 frames, has been drawn up and prepared for
press.
Catalogues and Inderes.—Work has been continued on the
catalogue of Dutch and Flemish Drawings, and study of the
drawings by Rubens, Van Dyck and their followers is in progress.
Work has been continued on the catalogue of British engraved
portraits, and the preparation of the fifth volume is advanced,
with a view to printing some sheets in 1921.
The work of indexing foreign portraits contained in books of
prints has been continued.
The work of inserting the new references to case, shelf and
number in the indexes of artists has been completed, and is being
methodically kept up as new acquisitions are placed.
Exhibition.—The gallery was re-opened to the public on July
15th, with a large and varied exhibition of prints and drawings,
in which the principal features, apart from the Oriental section,
were as follows:—174 drawings by old masters of the various
foreign schools; 165 drawings by British artists, all acquired since
1914; 37 drawings of the War by Muirhead Bone; a first selection,
146 in number, of the engravings presented by Lady Lucas, chiefly
of the British school, 1780-1820, and including many printed in
colours; select prints illustrating the processes of engraving, and
new acquisitions, both old and modern, including some early
illustrated books, MSS. containing 15th- -century engravings, and
sketch books. In the autumn some portions of this exhibition were
modified, 22 drawings of the work of the Egyptian Expeditionary
Force being exhibited in place of those by Bone, while in con-
nection with the Spanish Exhibition at Burlington House, 16
Spanish drawings and a large selection of etchings and lithographs
by Goya were placed on view. Many changes have been made in
the section of recent acquisitions.
Registration.—2,801 items have been entered in the pene
of Acquisitions.
Stamping and Mounting.—6,271 drawings, prints, etc.,
recently acquired, have been impressed with the departmental
stamp and references to the Register.
800 prints and drawings have been permanently mounted and
lettered with artists’ names and references to register and cata-
legues, and abovt 200 prints have been temporarily mounted for
exhibition.
Numerous prints and drawings have been cleaned and
mounted.
Students.—The total number of visitors admitted to the Print
Room during the year ended December 31st, 1920, was 5,439. The
Students’ Room was. re- opened under eae Conciente on
August 3rd.
Photographing.—291 applications were made for leave to
photograph, and 1,192 photographs were taken.
DEPARTMENT OF PRINTS AND DRAWINGS. 303
I1.—Acquisitions.
The total number of prints, drawings, books, &c., acquired
during the year was 4,773, no acquisition of outstanding impor-
tance being included in this number, except the book of Paduan
drawings presented by Lord Rosebery. The chief acquisitions are
mentioned, as follows, under the various schools.
ITALIAN SCHOOL.
Drawings.
Anonymous, Paduan school, second half of 15th century.
Book of 26 leaves of vellum with drawings in pen and ink on
both sides, representing sacred and mythological subjects, scenes
from contemporary court lite, groups of children, and heads
wearing fantastic helmets. This book, when discovered at Padua
in the 18th century, was attributed for the first time to Mantegna,
on the analogy of the ‘‘ Tarocchi’’ wrongly ascribed to that artist.
All the drawings were engraved in 1799 by Francesco Novell.
Presented by the Earl of Kosebery, K.G., K.T.
Anonymous, probably Sienese school, influenced by Raphael.
The Virgin and Child with SS. Bernardine and Catherine of
Siena; pen and ink. Richardson and Northwick collections.
Angolo (or Angeli), Battista (del Moro). Sketch for a decora-
tion,in fresco with the Resurrection and two Prophets. The Body
of Christ beneath the Cross, with St. Catherine and a sainted
bishop. Red and violet wash over black chalk upon yellow paper,
heightened with white. Northwick collection.
Bassano, Jacopo. Sketch for a picture of Dives and Lazarus;
black chalk.
Bernini, Giovanni Lorenzo. Allegorical composition, with
figures of Time, Health, Medicine, etc.; pen and ink.
Canuti, Domenico Maria. Coronation of the Virgin; pen and
bistre, and bistre wash.
Castello, Valerio. The Finding of Moses; pen and bistre.
Northwick collection.
Caula, Sigismondo. A figure kneeling before a crucifix; wash,
heightened with white. Prince de Ligne collection. Presented
by Prof. W. Bateson, F.R.S.
Crespi, Daniele. Head of a negro; red chalk. Northwick
collection.
Creti, Donato. The Virgin crowned by two angels; pen and
ink. Northwick collection.
Feti, Domenico. A man being shaved by torchlight; pen and
bistre, and bistre wash. Northwick collection.
Ricci, Sebastiano. The Adoration of the Shepherds, and two
single figure studies; pen and sepia, with Indian ink wash.
Presented by Mr. F. R. Meatyard.
Sacchi, Andrea. A draped figure standing, highly finished ;
red chalk. F. Abbott collection.
Tiarini, Alessandro. St. Lucy; black chalk. Presented by F.
Wellesley, Esq.
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34 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
Vanni, Francesco. Death of a monastic saint; pen and bistre,
and bistre wash. Northwick collection.
Zampieri, Domenico. Study, over life size, for the head of
St. Luke in the fresco of the Four Evangelists in 8. Andrea della
Valle, Rome; black chalk. Lawrence and Labouchere (Lord
Taunton) collections.
Engravings.
Anonymous, Florentine, 15th century (“‘ Fine Manner’’). The
Annunciation, from the Life of the Virgin and of Christ.
Coloured, with ornamental border, having been used as part of
an altar-piece (no example of a Florentine engraving thus treated
was hitherto in the Museum). Poynter collection. Presented by
the National Art-Collections Fund, with the aid of a contribution
from Prof. W. H. Woodward.
Anonymous, School of Marcantonio. Twenty engravings of
the ruins and antiquities of Rome.
Beatrizet, Nicolas. Laocoon, B. 90, first state; Castello di
S. Angelo, B. 101, first state.
Francia, Jacopo (attributed to). Three boys. Presented by
G. T. Clough, Esq.
Novelli, Francesco. Disegni del Mantegna; complete set of
52 plates and title after the drawings recently presented to the
Department by the Earl of Rosebery. Presented by Arthur Kay,
E'sq., through the National Art-Collections Fund.
Woodcuts.
Campagnola, Domenico. Landscape, B. 5. Presented by Y.
Urushibara, Esq. ;
Carpi, Ugo da. Hercules and the Nemean lion, chiaroscuro,
B. 15; fine impression, printed in blue.
Hercules driving out discord, after B. Peruzzi, chiaroscuro,
B. 12; early state.
Coriolano, Bartolommeo. St. Jerome, after Reni; fine im-
pression in yellow.
Fantuzzi, Antonio (da Trento). The Martyrdom of SS. Peter
and Paul, chiaroscuro; two impressions in different colours.
Zuccaro (after, by unknown engraver). Silenus, Pass. VI. 237.
72. Presented by G. T. Clough, Esq.
Prints arranged to illustrate the works of masters.
Cignaroli, G. B. Joseph and Potiphar’s wife. Mezzotint by
J. Clarot. |
Errante, Giuseppe. *“Quidquid Amor jussit.’? Mezzotint
by G. Bigatti.
Reni, Guido. The Adoration of the Shepherds. Mezzotint
by J. P. Pichler, from the picture in the Liechtenstein Gallery.
GERMAN SCHOOL.-
Drawings.
Bebam, Hans Sebald. Christ crowned with thorns. St. Peter
denying Christ. Round pen and ink drawings, designs for glass
painting, both dated 1522. Fairfax Murray collection.
DEPARTMENT OF PRINTS AND DRAWINGS. 30
Elsheimer, Adam. Jupiter and Mercury entertained by
Philemon and Baucis; pen and ink, with Indian ink wash. North-
wick collection.
Scholderer, Otto. Seven black chalk drawings, including a
study for a portrait of the artist’s wife, various figure subjects,
and studies of still life. Presented by J. V. Scholderer, Esq.
Winterhalter, Franz Xaver. Four small portrait heads; red,
black and white chalk.
Engravings.
Master of the Mount of Calvary. An armed knight, Lehrs 9
(the only impression known). Transferred from the Department
of Printed Books.
~~ Olmiitz, Wenzel von. The Virgin with an apple, after Schon-
gauer, Lehrs 18, first state (only two impressions were hitherto
known, in two states). Curzon collection. Presented by Major
G.H. Anson.
Schongauer, Martin (after). The Nativity; undescribed
anonymous copy.
Beham, Hans Sebald. St. Bartholomew, P. 50, fourth state;
St. Matthew, P. 52, first state; Justice, P. 1384, third state. Pre-
sented by Frank Madan, Esq. ‘‘ Night,” P. 154, first state.
Lanna and Heseltine collections. Presented by T. D. Barlow,
Esq.
Monogrammist I. W., 1598. Ornament.
Clarot, Joseph. Hercules and Alcestis (after G. B. Cig-
naroli?). Mezzotint, before letters.
Clerck, Jacob Friedrich. Death of Semiramis, after J.
Platzer. Mezzotint, before letters.
Hampeln, Carl von. Holy Family, aftér Jan van Hoeck.
Mezzotint.
Kininger, V.G. The Holy Family, after Batoni. Mezzotint,
before letters.
_ Pichler, J. P. Ferdinand IV, King of the Two Sicilies, after
J. B. Lampi. Melchior Birkenstock. Baron von Sperges, after
J.B. Lampi. Mezzotints; the first two proofs before letters.
Unterberger, Ignaz. The bust of Kaunitz crowned by Immor-
tality. Allegory of Death and Eternity. Mezzotints.
Wrenk, Franz. The Magdalen in the desert, after O.
Gentileschi. Caritas, after B. Franceschini. Mezzotints, before
letters.
Etchings.
Scholderer, Otto. Ten, of various figure subjects, several in
more than one state. Presented by J. V. Scholderer, Esq.
Welti, Albert. Hochzeitszug, Teufelsbriicke, Der Ehehafen,
Gliick und Ungliick, and five other subjects, including two book-
plates.. Presented by M. Albert J. Welti, son of the artist.
Woodcuts.
Anonymous, 15th century. Four coloured illustrations from
Leben der Heiligen (Winterteil), printed at Augsburg by Giinther
Zainer, 1471. (The first illustrated book’ printed at Augsburg;
not in the British Museum.)
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Beck, Leonhard. Twenty-three woodcuts (siz presented by
Charles Shannon, Esq., R.A.) from the series of Saints con-
nected with the House of Habsburg; early impressions.
Cranach, Lucas. Eleven out of fourteen woodcuts of the
Passion, B. 8, 9, 12-20, printed on vellum. Presented by Major
G. H. Anson.
St. Mary Magdalen, B. 72; good impression, surrounded by
a border. Heseltine collection.
Direr, Albrecht (after). St. John swallowing the book; copy
by H. Greff, 1502, with German text, completing a set of the
copies in which this subject was wanting.
Traut, Wolf. St. Stephen between two bishops, from the
Passau Missal of 1514; first state. E. Schultze and V. Mayer
collections.
SCHOOLS OF THE NETHERLANDS.
Drawings. .
Berchem, Nicolaes. Small oblong sketch-book of 158 leaves,
with original parchment cover, containing drawings of animals
and landscape in black and red chalk. Woodburn and Mayer de
Rothschild collections. Presented by the Earl of Rosebery,
Yer etl wa
Bol, Ferdinand (attributed to). Study for a lady’s portrait;
red chalk drawing of the school of Rembrandt, about 1640.
Bol, Hans. The Lamentation beneath the Cross. Pen and
ink and purple wash; signed and dated 1570.
Breughel, Pieter I. Avarice. Pen and bistre, signed and
dated 1556. One of a series of the Seven Deadly Sins;
‘““ Avarice ’’ was engraved in 1558 by P. Van der Heyden (Petrus
a Merica). Denon and Fairfax Murray collections.
Claesz, Aert. Christ taken captive. Christ before Pilate.
Round designs for glass-painting; pen and ink and Indian ink
wash. Lawrence, Woodburn and F. Abbott collections.
Koninck, Philips de. Two studies of aragged man. Pen and
sepia. Northwick collection. .
Lingelbach, Johannes. A JLevantine or Italian sea-port.
signed. Pen and ink and water-colours. Northwick collection.
Scene in a harbour; a Chinaman and a man seated, smoking.
Black chalk and bistre wash.
Maes, Nicolaes. Cottagers entertaining a satyr. Pen and
sepia and sepia wash. Richardson, Reynolds and Northwick col-
lections. .
Momper, Joos de. Harbour with shipping. Black chalk, pen
and ink, and indigo wash. Fairfax Murray collection.
Visscher, Cornelis. Half-length portrait of a lady, 1649; lead
point on vellum. Presented by F..J. Wellesley, Esq.
Vos, Paulus de (by or after). A woman selling fruit and
vegetables. Pen and ink and wash.
Engravings.
Muntinck, Adriaen. Six prints of ornament with fruit.
Valck, Gerard. Series of the Twelve Months, each with four
verses in Dutch and French.
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EKtchings.
Bauer, Marius. Eleven etchings of Oriental subjects, scenes
in Cairo, Stamboul and Jerusalem.
Nieuwenkamp, W. O. J. Constantine. Verona. Presented
by J. de Graaff, Esq. The Fisherman. Indian bullock cart.
Death and the Fisherman. Presented by the Artist. The
picturesque Sluice. Arab quarter at Java.
W oodcuts.
Key, Adriaen Thomas. The death of Absalom, chiaroscuro.
Nieuwenkamp, W. O.J. Verona. Mill at Bruges. Pre-
sented by the Artist.
Prints arranged to illustrate the works of Masters.
Rubens, P. P. Lion and boar hunt; etched by W. P. van
Leeuw.
FrRENcH SCHOOL.
Drawings.
Carriere, EKugéne. Mother and child; black chalk. Presented
by C. Dodgson, Esq., C.B.E.
Degas, Edgar. Horse galloping; slight sketch in red chalk.
Presented by C. Dodgson, Esq., C.B.E. Study of nude woman;
black chalk. Study of head of jockey; black chalk. Bought
from the H. L. Florence fund.
Géricault, J. L. A. Théodore. Woman standing with her
arms above her head; brush drawing in Indian ink on brown
paper, heightened with white. A fight between soldiers and
civilians; pencil and red chalk. Both from the His de la Salle
and Fairfax Murray collections. Bought from the H. L. Florence
fund.
Leu, Thomas de. Portrait of Etienne Tabourot, poet
(Seigneur des Accords); black chalk. Fontette and Northwick
collections.
Marilhat, Prosper. View of Toledo; pen and ink.
Matisse, Henri. Study of the nude; black chalk. Presented
by Rk. FE. A. Wilson, Esq.
Miller, Jean-Francois. The good Samaritan; pen and ink.
Presented by Denys Hague, Esq.
Pils, Isidore A. A. Study of a Zouave trumpeter; black and
ted chalk. His de la Salle and Fairfax Murray collections.
Pissarro, Camille. Landscape sketch at Eragny, 1890; water-
colour. Presented by Charles Ricketts, Esq. Three studies of
peasant women; pastel. Woman seen from the back; charcoal
and pastel. Purchased from the H. L. Florence fund.
Ribot, Théodule. Four pencil drawings of boys. Purchased
from the H. L. Florence fund.
Rousseau, Théodore. Three sketches of trees and cottages; .
pen and ink. J. Staats Forbes collection.
St. Aubin, Augustin de. Nine small portrait drawings; black
and red chalk. W. Basevi Sanders and Fairfax Murray col-
llections.
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St. Aubin, Gabriel de. Portrait of Simon-Nicolas-Henri
Linguet; black chalk, Northwick collection.
Thomon, Thomas de. Architectural composition; palatial
buildings seen through an arch; pen and ink and water-colour,
signed and dated 1785. Purchased from the H. L. Florence fund.
Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de. Head of a woman; blue chalk.
Engravings.
Alx, P. M. La promenade du Soir, after Demarne;
aquatint, printed in colours. Phipson collection.
Daullé, Jean. Louis Cazeau de Nestier (equestrian portrait),
after Delarue; unfinished proof.
Levachez. Napoléon I; large equestrian portrait, after Carle
Vernet; aquatint, printed in colours. Phipson collection.
Morel. a promenade du Matin, after Demarne; aquatint,
printed in colours. Phipson collection.
Ridé. Louis XVI, after Benard; aquatint, printed in colours.
Sergent-Marceau, A. F. Clovis le; aquatint, printed in
colours. Louis Philippe, Duc d’Orléans; printed in two colours.
Presented by H. W. B. Joseph, Esq. Jean Jouvenet; aquatint,
printed in colours.
Etchings.
Bracquemond, Félix. Twenty-five decorative etchings of
birds, fish, flowers, etc., intended for transfer to china and
known as the ‘‘ Service de table de la Maison Rousseau ”’
(Beraldi 580-554).
Bresdin, Rodolphe. Repos de la Sainte Famille.
Heyman, Charles. Train de Marchandise. Presented by
John Murray, Esq., M.P.
Meryon, Charles. Le Ministére de la Marine, Paris (W. 26,
L.D. 45 I); the rare first state, dated in Meryon’s writing, from
the Wasset and Macgeorge collections. L’ancien Louvre (W. 60,
L.D. 53 I); the rare first state, dated in Meryon’s writing, from
the Macgeorge collection.
Pissarro, Camille. Ten etchings (recent impressions, 1920),
including figure subjects, landscapes and a portrait of Cézanne.
Presented by the Widow and Sons of the Artist.
| Lithographs.
Anquetin, Louis. Les Courses; printed in colours. Pre-
sented by C. Dodgson, Esq., C.B.E.
Bresdin, Rodolphe. Ia Comédie de la Mort.
Courbet, Gustave. L’Apétre Jean Journet.
Pissarro, Camille. Gardeuse d’oies. Baigneuse le soir.
Groupe de baigneuses le soir. Théorie de _baigneuses.
Baigneuses (L’estampe originale). Presented by C.' Ricketts,
Esq
-Toulouse-Lautrec, H. de. Les Vieilles Histoires. Cover for
L’estampe originale. Désastres de la guerre. Yvette Guilbert,
1898 (set of seven, with frontispiece and cover). Treize Litho-
graphies: Tirage spécial pour les XX (two impressions of each
subject). Presented by C. Dodgson, Esq., C.B.E. ee
DEPARTMENT OF PRINTS AND DRAWINGS, 39
Woodcuts.
Bischoff, Henri. Seven of various subjects, coloured by hand.
Presented by Oskar Reinhart, Esq. Susanna and the elders;
coloured by hand.
Busset, Maurice. Le Vieux Pays d’Auvergne; Hn Avion.
Two albums of woodcuts, partly printed in colours. Presented by
the Artist. ; .
Carlégle, F. Copa, with an extra set of proofs of the illustra-
tions. Presented by C. Dodgson, E'sq., C.B.E.
Morin-Jean. Suite domestique en dix tableaux. Presented by
C. Dodgson, Esq., C.B.E.
Paul, Hermann. Chansons de France; set of six ballad sheets
with woodcuts. Presented by C. Dodgson, Esq., C.B.E.
Prints arranged to illustrate the works of masters.
Decamps, Alexandre. Episode de la défaite des Cimbres.
Samson turning the mill. Lithographs by Eugene Le Roux. Pre-
sented by the Hon. Walter James.
SPANISH SCHOOL.
Drawings.
Cano, Alonso. Four angels; pen and bistre and bistre wash.
A Miracle of St: Anthony of Padua; pen and bistre and bistre
wash.
Carducho, Vincenzo. Christ on the Cross; black chalk.
Roelas, Juan de las. The Infant Christ; pen and bistre and
indigo wash.
Zurbaran, Francisco. A saint in glory in the clouds; red
chalk on blue paper.
All of the above are from the Northwick collection.
GREEK SCHOOL.
Zarokilli, Nicholas Panagioti (Nikolaki). Sixteen dry point
portraits, some in more than one state, including those of H.M.
the Queen of Spain, the Infantas Maria Christina and Beatriz,
the Grand Duchess Alexander Mikhailovitch, Feodor Alexandro-
vitch, André Alexandrovitch, the Grand Duchess Marie Paulovna,
Prince and Princess Youssoupoff, the Archbishop of Canterbury,
and others; also a study of the nude, “‘ Biblis,’’ in two states.
Presented by the Artist. |
AMERICAN SCHOOL.
Drawing.
Whistler, J. A. McN. The Thames at Battersea ; water-colour
(monochrome), from the collection of Sir Wm. Eden, Bart. Pre-
sented by Miss Hague.
Htchings.
Brown, Benjamin C. Six soft-ground etchings printed in
colours (views of Venice and California).
40 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
Whistler, J. A. McN. Jo’s bent head; dry point, Kennedy
78 11. Presented by Mortimer Menpes, Esq. Boats, Dordrecht,
Kennedy 244. Presented by C. Dodgson, Esq., C.B.E.
Inthographs.
Brown, Bolton. Thirty-nine, chiefly of landscape subjects.
Presented by the Artist.
Oakley, Thornton. Fifteen lithographs of shipbuilding in
Hog Island shipyard. Presented by the Artist.
Foreign Artists RESIDENT IN ENGLAND.
Drawings.
Brandoin, Michel-Vincent (wrongly called ‘‘ Charles’”’ by
some authorities). North view and West view of the Castle of
Grignan in Provence, a pair; pen and ink and water-colour. Pre-
sented by A. EL. Anderson, Esq.
Goupy, Joseph. Sir Robert Walpole, K.G., addressing a meet-
ing of the Cabinet (ca. 1730-40); gouache. Presented by the
National Art-Collections Fund.
Griffer, Jan. Mountain landscape with travellers; black
chalk and sepia wash on blue paper. Northwick collection.
Loutherbourg, P. J. de, R.A. Cattle and a boy piping, signed
and dated 1766; pen and sepia. Northwick collection.
Roubiliac, Louis-Frangois. Design for a statue of a physician,
emblems of Adsculapius; pen and ink. Fairfax Murray collection.
Presented by Mr. Frank T, Sabin.
Van Dyck, Anthony. Study for Venus rising from the sea;
on the back, sketch of figures dancing, both suggested by com-
positions of Rubens; pen and ink. Fairfax Murray collection.
Zoffany, John, R.A. Two designs for the decoration of a
ceiling with Apollo driving the Chariot of the Sun, and a third
design with nude figures; black and white chalk. From the
collection of Sir Frederick Gore-Ouseley.
Engravings.
(jeminus, Thomas. Two engravings of arabesque ornament
(duplicate) from the book “‘ Morysse and Damashin renewed and
increased,’ London, 1548, of which the only copy known (26
leaves, omitting these two duplicates and title page) is in the
Landesmuseum at Miinster in Westphalia. These are the only
line engravings at present known to have been published in
England during the reign of Edward VI.
Schiavonetti, Luigi. Archduke Charles of Austria, after
Kellerhoven ; stipple, unfinished proof.
Swertner, John. View of London from the North; coloured
aquatint, published at Bristol, 1802.
BritisH ScHoo..
Drawings.
Barlow, Francis. Ostrich, peacock and other birds; pen and
ink and Indian-ink wash; etched by John Griffier.
DEPARTMENT OF PRINTS AND DRAWINGS. 4]
Callow, William. View of a lake; water-colour, signed and
dated 1834. Poynter collection.
Cameron, D. Y., R.A. The Hills of Morvern; water-colour
(monochrome). Presented by the Artist.
Crane, Walter. Una and the Lion; unpublished illustration
to Spenser’s ‘‘ Faérie Queene ’’; pen and ink.
Kvershed, Arthur. A book containing 27 drawings in gold
and silver point. Presented by Mrs. Evershed.
Gill, Hric. The original designs (1914) for the Stations of the
Cross in Westminster Cathedral; pen and ink, enriched with
water-colour and gold, and heightened with white. Presented by
the Contemporary Art Society.
Gooden, James Chisholm. Six water-colour sketches, chiefly of
marine subjects. Presented by Arthur Phillips, Esq., and J.
Walters, Esq.
Hunt, William Henry. View in a park; water-colour, from
the collections of Dr. Thomas Monro and Lord Northwick. Pre-
sented by Captain E. G. Spencer-Churchill. Sawyers working
at Bushey, with Dr. Monro on horseback as a spectator. North-
wick collection.
Lessore, Thérése. Stalls, the Euston Palace; pen and ink
and water-colour. Presented by J. L. Rayner, Esq.
MacColl, D. S. The Fishers’ Church, Honfleur; water-colour.
Dordrecht; pencil. Presented by the Artist.
May, Phil. Thirty-one humorous drawings; chiefly pen and
ink, but including specimens in pencil and water-colour. Pre-
sented by Arthur Morrison, Esq.
Nasmyth, Patrick. Cottages near Maidenhead; black chalk.
Northwick collection.
Nollekens, Joseph, R.A. Six sketches for monuments, includ-
ing that of Jonathan Shipley, Bishop of St. Asaph. Indian ink
and water-colour.
Parry, John Orlando. The twelfth passenger; black, red and
white chalk, signed and dated 1865. Presented by HL. LE. Leggatt,
Esq.
Paton, Frank. Four studies of dogs, ducklings and chickens;
water-colour and body colour on tinted papers. Presented by
Mrs. Paton.
Reynolds, Sir Joshua, P.R.A. Four sheets of pen and sepia
sketches of portraits after Sir J. Kneller, including those of
Edward and Lady Elizabeth Southwell. Northwick collection.
Riviere, Briton, R.A. A wolf; charcoal and wash; study for
the picture “‘ Ve victis!’’ Three studies of a collie dog. Studies
of wolves and wolves’ heads; charcoal. Presented by Mrs. Briton
Riviere.
LInthographs.
Belleroche, Albert. Woman seated in achair. Presented by
_C. Dodgson, Esq., C.B.E.
Conder, Charles. Béatrix et Conti; unpublished and very
rare, only two other impressions being known. Presented by C.
Dodgson, Esq., C.B.E.
42 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
Nasmyth, James. Seven pen lithographs, minutely finished,
of the years 1854-55.
Rothenstein, William. Twelve portraits of Americans. Pre-
sented by the Artist.
W oodcuts.
Batten, John Dickson. Book-plate of J. D. Batten, 1894
(three impressions). Book-plate of J. Platt (two impressions). The
Mermaid, 1894 (three impressions). Eve, 1895 (ten impressions,
from separate blocks, combinations of blocks and trial proofs, the
finished work in different colour schemes). The Harpies (outline
and colour print). Constance (trial proof and finished colour
print). The Tiger (finished colour print). Presented by the
Artist.
Fletcher, Frank Morley. Eve; colour print (1895).
Gardner, W. Biscombe. George Meredith, after Watts, and
two subjects after J. W. Edwards and F. Wilfred Lawson. Pre-
sented by Mrs. Gardner.
Giles, William. Midsummer Night; colour print from six
relief blocks of metal. Presented by C. Dodgson, Esq., C.B.E.
Mackie, Charles Hodge. Five progress proofs of the colour-
printed woodcut, ‘‘ Picardy: Poplars.’”” Presented by Mrs.
Mackie.
Moore, Thomas Sturge: Book-plates of Mrs. W. B. Yeats,
W.S. Kennedy (two states), and Sibyl Pye. Presented by the
Artist.
Pilkington, Margaret. Six original woodcuts (hens, geese,
goats, mountains), 1916-19. Presented by the Artist.
Platt, John Edgar. Snow in summer; colour print. Pre-
sented by the Artist.
Rooke, Noel. The Edge of the Wood (in black and in colours).
Presented by the Artist. ;
Soper, George. The Shepherd. The Hay Cart. Introduction.
Presented by the Artist.
Prints arranged to illustrate the Works of Masters.
Herring, J. F. The Return from the Derby; coloured aqua-
tint by J. Harris, 1862.
Landseer, Sir Edwin, R.A. Fifteen engravings by T. Land-
seer and others, hitherto wanting in the collection of Landseer’s
engraved work. |
PoRTRAITS.
The 1,383 English and 354 foreign portraits acquired during
the year include 1,591 portraits selected from the duplicates in a
large collection of small engraved portraits, formed by the late
Mr. John Doyle Fry; these duplicates were presented by his son,
Mr. H. R. Fry. They also include 11 recently issued portraits
of members of the Grillion Club (presented by the Rt. Hon. Sir
George H. Murray, G.C.B.), 61 foreign portraits, chiefly French,
of the Revolution period (presented by H. W. B. Joseph, Esq.),
DEPARTMENT OF PRINTS AND DRAWINGS. 43
a number of Austrian and German mezzotints, and a large etching
by Ferdinand Schmutzer of the Archduke Francis Ferdinand
(d. 1914).
Booxk-PLATEs.
These include a collection of 71, in proof state, by the Spanish
artist, A. de Riquer (presented by Messrs. Bromhead and Cutts),
six by Ludovic Rodo (presented by the Artist), and a few Amerti-
can specimens, by W. F. Hopson and others.
COLLECTIONS AND SETS.
A collection, formed by the engraver’s daughter, of 148 mezzo-
tints and line engravings by Charles Algernon Tomkins (1821-
#0?) pupil of Henry Quilley. Presented by W. M. Newton,
sq.
The first eight ‘‘ Jahresmappen’’ (1898-1904) of the Gesell-
schaft fir Vervielfaltigende Kunst, Vienna, containing 69
modern engravings, etchings, lithographs and woodcuts of various
schools, but chiefly Austrian and German. Presented by Campbell
Dodgson, Esq., C.B.E.
Books oF Prints anp Books or REFERENCE.
Leonardo da Vinci. Quaderni d’Anatomia, 6 vol., Chris-
tiania, 1911-16.
J. Veth and 8. Muller. <A. Diirer’s Niederlandische Reise,
2 vol., 1918.
G. Gliick. Nuiederlindische Gemalde aus der Sammlung des
Herrn Dr, L. Lilienfeld in Wien, 1917. Presented by Dr.
Lihenfeld.
Gustav Klimt. Fiinf-und-Zwanzig Handzeichnungen. Vienna,
1920. Presented by C. Dodgson, Esq., C.B.E.
J. Meder. Die Handzeichnung, ihre Technik und Entwick-
lung, Vienna, 1919. Presented by Victor Koch, Esq. .
_. G. Keller. Die drei gerechten Kammacher (six etchings by
_A.Cossmann). Vienna, 1915.
Le Nouvel Imagier. Published by La Société de la gravure
sur bois originale. Paris, 1914.
_ P. de Nolhac and L. Demonts. Quarante Dessins de Claude
Lorrain. Paris, 1920.
. Adam E. M. Paff. Etchings and dry-points by F. W. Benson,
vol. 2, 1919. Presented by the Author.
. €. Dodgson. Catalogue of the etchings of Augustus John,
1920. Presented by Messrs. Charles Chenil & Co., Ltd.
L. Delteil. Le Peintre-Graveur illustré. Tome11,12. Tou-
louse-Lautrec. Presented by M. Loys Delteil.
Campbell Dodgson.
22 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
SusB-DEPARTMENT OF ORIENTAL PRINTS AND DRAWINGS.
I.—Arrangement and Cataloguing, §c.
‘The framed Chinese and Japanese pictures intended for per-
manent exhibition at the ‘western end of the exhibition gallery
were re-hung, and a series of Chinese paintings (including a
number of Buddhist paintings from the Stein collection), with a
selection of Indian drawings, were arranged in cases and on
screens for the re-opening of the gallery on July 15th. This
exhibition remained on view till about the end of November.
On December 3rd a new exhibition of Japanese Colour-Prints
was opened to the public. This is intended to be the first of a
series, to be held in successive winters, illustrating the various
phases of the Ukiyo-yé School and the whole history of the colour-
print in Japan. A Guide to this exhibition has been printed and
is on sale.
The entire collection of Japanese paintings has been re-
arranged. The Morrison collection has been incorporated with
the older Museum Series (chiefly from the Anderson collection)
and the whole arranged chronologically within the several schools,
and continuously numbered. ‘The series now contains between
three and four thousand items. A list of the paintings, in their
new order, with the subjects and the artists’ names, has been
written in duplicate. The necessary re-labelling has been done.
The Index of Chinese Artists has been revised for publication.
New matter has been incorporated, and over three hundred cross-
references have been added.
The reproductions of Chinese and Japanese paintings have
been arranged in twelve portfolios.
A case-list of the Oriental collections has been prepared.
Twelve albums containing Indian and Persian drawings and
paintings have been transferred from the Department of Oriental
Printed Books and MSS. to the Sub-Department. Most of these,
being of a miscellaneous character, are in process of being broken
‘up, so that the drawings may be separately mounted and arranged
according to school and period. Ten drawings detached from
albums remaining in the Library have also been transferred.
A small selection of duplicate Japanese Colour-Prints has been
mounted and framed, to form a loan collection.
All corrections of references in the indexes, rendered necessary
by recent re-arrangements, have been made.
Three books of reference, recently acquired, have been cata-
logued, placed and labelled.
The work of entering corrections and additions in an inter-
red copy of the Catalogue of Japanese Woodcuts has been
egun.
A record has been begun, in slip form, of all Japanese wood-
cuts acquired since the printing of the Catalogue.
Three hundred and thirty-two prints, paintings, etc., have
been incorporated with the divisions of the collection to which
. they belong. .
SUB-DEPARTMENT OF ORIENTAL PRINTS AND DRAWINGS. 45
Registration.—651 items have been entered in the Register of
Acquisitions.
Stamping and mounting.—1,019 prints, paintings, etc., re-
cently acquired, have been impressed with the departmental
stamp and references to the Register.
Two large paintings from the Stein collection have been
mounted with silk borders.
One Chinese painting has been mounted and five repaired.
Two Persian drawings and one Indian drawing have been
mounted on sunk mounts.
Two hundred and six Japanese prints have been mounted on
sunk mounts.
Fifty Persian and Indian drawings have been removed from
albums and backed.
Il.—Acquisitions.
The total number of paintings, prints, etc., acquired during
the year was 878, of which the following are the most impor-
tant :—
CHINESE.
Paintings.
Lang Shih-ning (1.e., the Jesuit Giuseppe Castiglione). Hunt-
ing scene. Kakemono, painted in colours.
Leng Mei. A lady at a window. Kakemono, painted in
colours.
Wu Li. Twelve landscape designs in an album, made with
a “* fire pencil’’ (heated stylus).
W oodcuts.
Anonymous. ‘‘ All Nations Coming to Court.’’ Printed in
colours.
JAPANESE.
Paintings.
Mitsuoki, Tosa. Five makinvono illustrating the Isé Mono-
gatarl. Painted in colours. Presented by G. B. Dodwell, Esq.
Sanraku, Kano, attributed to. Ch’ao Fu and Hsii Yu: two-
fold screen, painted in colours and gold.
Takanobu, after. Portrait of Yoritomo, the first Shogun. A
fine and very ancient copy after the portrait of Yoritomo pre-
served in Japan and attributed to Takanobu. Kakemono, painted
in colours. Purchased with the aid of the National Art-Collec-
tions Fund and a contribution from G. Eumorfopoulos, Esq.
Yush6, Kaihoku. Birds on a willow in winter. Kakemono
painted in ink.
Woodcuts.
Bunchso. Actor playing in a woman’s part. Presented by
R. N. Shaw, Esq.
46 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
Fujinobu. A man talking to a girl. Presented by R. N.
Shaw, Esq.
Hiroshige. White heron among reeds. Presented by KR. N.
Shaw, Esq.
Hokusai. Long surimono; Yoshitsuné and the princess.
Men dragging nets; Hundred Poems series, No. 3. Presented by
R.N. Shaw, Esq. Three prints from the Hundred Poems series,
Nos. 5, 37 and 97.
Jakuchit. Set of six prints of birds and flowers on black
ground.
Kiyonaga. Girls on a verandah by the sea. Girls and children
near a temple gateway; diptych. Presented by Kh. NV. Shaw, Esq.
Evening by the sea.
Kiyoshige. Michizane holding plum-blossom. Presented by
R.N. Shaw, Esq.
Koritsai. Tea-house scene.
Riakoku. Girl with scroll.
Shunchs. Girls and cat.
Utamaro. Girl painting her lips. Girl tying a poem to a
blossoming tree. Presented by R. N. Shaw, Esq. An actor in a
woman’s part (very early print). Two lovers under an umbrella.
Yeisui. Three girls. Presented by R. N. Shaw, Esq. Lovers
eloping.
Book of Woodcut Designs.
Mincho Seidd Gwayen. Printéd in colours after Shunboku,
2 vol., 1746. The first edition, of which no other copy appears
to be known, of one of the earliest examples of colour printing in
Japan. Presented by Arthur Morrison, Esq.
KOREAN.
The God of the North; The God of the South. Two large
paintings in colours.
INDIAN.
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Paintings and Drawings.
The paintings and drawings, approaching 500 in number,
acquired by transference from the Department of Oriental Printed
Books and MSS., make a very important addition to the Indian
collections. They are mostly of the Mogul School. A few are
of the time of Akbar, but the finest paintings are of the time of
Jahangir and Shah Jahan, and include signed examples of the
work of Hunhar, Chitarman, Anupchatar, Govardhan, Muham-
mad Nadir and other distinguished artists of the 17th century.
Group of young prince and maidens; water-colour copy by
Mukul Dey after one of the most ancient of the Ajanta Frescoes.
Kangra School. Lovers on a terrace. Presented by Ernest
Debenham, Esq.
SUB-DEPARTMENT OF ORIENTAL PRINTS AND DRAWINGS. 47
PERSIAN.
About 50 drawings and paintings, mostly of the 16th and 17th
centuries. Transferred from the Department of Oriental Printed
Books and MSS.
TIBETAN.
Mahakala, Banner painting, in colours. Presented by Arthur
Morrison, Esq.
Booxs or Prints anp Books oFr REFERENCE.
Hiroshige Memorial Exhibition, Tokyo, 1918. Presented by
Laurence Binyon, Esq.
Nakamura. Catalogue of National Treasures in Japan. Pre-
sented by H. F. Visser, Esq.
Liang Chang-Chu Collection: illustrated catalogue. Pre-
sented by Laurence Binyon, Esq.
Otani, Count. Sai-iki Koko Zufu; Central Asian Antiquities.
2 vol. Presented by Sei-icht Taki, Esq.
Petrucci, Raphael. Encyclopédie de la Peinture Chinoise;
traduction et commentaires.
Streelneek, F. A. Chinese Pictorial Art (Streelneek collec-
tion). Presented by E. A. Streelneek, Esq.
Laurence Binyon.
48 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
DEPARTMENT OF EGYPTIAN AND ASSYRIAN ANTIQUITIES.
‘I.—Arrangement, Cataloguing, §c.
EGypTian ANTIQUITIES :—
The general re-arrangement of the Egyptian Galleries and
Vestibule has been continued, and a number of portrait figures,
statues, etc., have been incorporated and provided with pedestals
or plinths, and wooden cases. The washing and cleansing of the
hard stone statues have been continued.
The predynastic pottery and other antiquities, and the objects
of the Archaic and Early Dynastic Periods have been removed
from the cases on the north-west staircase and re-arranged in the
Sixth Egyptian Room. Descriptive labels have been attached to
the painted casts in the Vestibule and in the Fifth Egyptian
Room.
Metal tubes, with perforated ends and filled with cotton wool,
have been fixed in all the wall-cases for the purposes of ventila-
tion, and holes have been drilled in the glass coverings of painted
frescoes to prevent condensation of moisture.
The collections of mummies and coffins and large funerary
furniture have been arranged in Egyptian Rooms I.-III., which
were re-opened to the public on May 24th (Whit Monday). The
Fourth Egyptian Room, containing the smaller funerary objects,
scarabs, shabti figures, jewellery, etc., was re-opened to the public
on July 15th, and the Fifth and Sixth Egyptian Rooms on
December 5th.
The Egyptian, Nubian and Meroitic pottery and earthenware
objects have been grouped and arranged, each object having a
distinguishing letter painted upon it.
A selection from the funerary, historical, legal, and magical
papyri in the hieroglyphic, hieratic and demotic characters has
been made and exhibited in the Sixth Egyptian Room.
The collection of Royal scarabs has been amplified and classi-
fied and re-arranged in chronological order; and one hundred and
ninety-seven scarabs have been re-mounted.
Ten frames for miscellaneous objects have been made; several
hundreds of feet of mahogany slips for labels have been prepared
for ebonizing; fifty-eight pedestals for mummies and coffins and
seventy-seven bearers have been made; three hundred dividing
' slips for scarabs and twenty-three for pottery have been prepared
and either distempered or covered with cloth; one box and a
number of stands for boats have been made; new shelves and
bearers have been prepared and fixed in Egyptian Rooms IV.-VI.;
five coffins have been re-dowelled, and a large house-door has been
removed from the Vestibule and fixed in Room V. Three hundred
and forty-three figures of gods have been refixed.
About five hundred objects have had numbers painted upon
them; one hundred and ninety-one labels have been written and
painted and fixed; four hundred and thirty-one objects have been
DEPARTMENT OF EGYPTIAN AND ASSYRIAN ANTIQUITIES. 49
registered; ten inscriptions have been copied and several copies
revised, and the plates for Part VI. of Egyptian Texts have been
checked over.
A set of twenty-two postcards with coloured representations
of coffins and mummies has been printed, descriptive labels have
been written for them, and short introductions dealing with the
Book of the Dead and mummification have been written and
printed.
A monograph on the Book of the Dead has been written.
Three hundred and forty-four slips for the Catalogue of
Scarabs have been written.
ASSYRIAN ANTIQUITIES : —
‘he general re-arrangement of the Babylonian Room and the
Pheenician and Semitic Rooms in the Second Northern Gallery
has been completed, and the Rooms were re-opened to the public
on July idth.
The collection of Sumerian and early Babylonian antiquities
has been amplified, and all objects bought during the year have
been incorporated.
Thirty-one cases of antiquities have been brought from the
Docks to the Museum, and their contents unpacked and examined.
The collection of Hittite sculptures has been brought upstairs,
and the bas-reliefs and sculptures have been placed in the wall-
cases on the North-West Staircase.
Twenty Babylonian bricks, twelve miscellaneous Babylonian
objects (ovoids, plaques, etc.), one seated figure, and one Kufi
gravestone, have been mounted on stone plinths; eight table-cases
have been covered with cloth.
Thirty tablets, twenty figures, thirty-one terra-cotta vases,
twenty-one bowls and dishes, etc., have been repaired, and five
tablets have been cleaned.
The restoration of the bronze masks from the heads of animals
from ‘Babylonia has been continued, and the bitumen cores of the
masks have been treated with preservative solutions. Four boxes
of human and animal bones have been treated.
The remainder of the cases of Babylonian antiquities from the
Postal Tube have been unpacked, and their contents, about fifty
thousand tablets, have been checked, and their glass-topped boxes
cleaned and repaired.
Seven thousand seven hundred objects have been numbered ;
fifteen hundred and forty-three objects have been registered ; two
hundred and ten texts have been copied; the wall-cases in the
Babylonian Room have been labelled.
An introduction has been written for Part XX XV. of “‘ Cunei-
form Texts; an Index to Parts XXVI.-XXXV. of ‘‘ Cuneiform
Texts’’ has been compiled and printed; an Introduction te
““ Hittite Texts ’’ has been written and printed; and a list of signs
and personal names in the Cappadocian tablets has been pre-
pared.
A monograph on the Deluge Tablet and the Epic of Gil-
gamish has been written.
D
30 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
Students.—About two thousand and five hundred visits have
been made to the Department by students, dealers, and soldiers
from Egypt and Mesopotamia, and descriptions of four hundred
and eighty-four objects brought by them for examination have
been written.
Publications : — .
The Book of the Dead. An illustrated monograph.
The Babylonian Story of the Deluge. An illustrated mono-
graph.
Cuneiform Inscriptions. Part XXXV.
Hittite Texts in the Cuneiform Character.
Twenty-two coloured postcards of typical mummies and
coffins.
IIl.—Acquisttions.
I.—EGyYPtTiAN :—
1-14. Ushabtiu figures in wood, stone, faience, from the
XIIth to the X XVIth dynasty.
15. Bronze egis of Khnemu-Amen. XXIInd dynasty.
16.
100-104.
105.
106.
107.
108, 109.
110.
Ligue
112.
113-117.
118-125.
126-180.
131-136.
_ A miscellaneous collection of scarabs, &c.
A rare object.
Bronze libation bucket with figures of gods in relief.
XXVIth dynasty.
. Bronze plate bearing the prenomen of Thothmes IV.
. Scale from a suit of bronze armour.
. Bronze base of a figure of Pa-nefer-ankh.
. Model of a hoe, in wood.
. Model of a cradle for moving stones, in wood.
. Two wax figures made to be burnt in working magic.
XXIInd dynasty.
. Terra-cotta head of Apis, late period.
. Terra-cotta vase handle, late period.
. Six porcelain handles of sistra. XXVIth dynasty.
. A group of objects, scarabs, figures of animals, &. _
ViIth to XIIth dynasty.
_ A miscellaneous collection of scarabs, chiefly of the
XVIIIth dynasty.
XIXth to
XXVIIth dynasty.
Gold egis of Bast and four small silver objects.
XIith dynasty.
Faience disc with
XXVIth dynasty.
Portion of sistrum with a figure of Sesheta.
Head of Ptah-Seker.
Figure of Hapi and a blue and green fragment.
Vase with cartouche in a bronze stand.
Marble vessel of Ptah-mes, high priest of Memphis.
Fragment of marble vase of Thothmes II.
Bone figures of a‘lion, a man, and three women.
Bone die, and seven bone objects.
Five objects—use unknown.
Six fragments inscribed with royal names.
the prenomen Uah-ab-Ra.
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137-138. Wooden box and arm ot a figure.
139. Model of a woman in terra-cotta.
140. Alabaster head of a duck, painted.
141. Circular object, drill (?).
142-194. A collection of 53 glass objects. XVIIIth dynasty
to the Roman Period.
195-254. A miscellaneous collection of objects in porcelain,
stone, &c., of various periods.
200, 256. Two Gnostic gems with figures of Abrasax.
257. Modern imitation of a Gnostic gem.
298. A draughtsman in the form of Khnemu-Horus.
209. A fragment or blue colour.
iy e A codex of the Saite Recension of the Book of the
Dead, about 18 feet 6 inches in length. The text
of this very valuable papyrus is written in a small]
but beautifully clear and distinct hand, and is
illustrated by a series of vignettes which are
executed in great detail and with great delicacy.
This papyrus contains 165 chapters, which run in
the order of those found in the Turin Papyrus
published by Lepsius, and was probably written
in the early years of the Roman Period. It is
the fullest and most perfect of all the known
codices of the Saite Recension written in the
hieratic character.
II.—ASssyRIAN : —
fi 1. A copy of an inscription of Sin-Gashid concerning.
his palace.
2-5. Four Sumerian texts of the early period.
6, 7. Two Babylonian contracts.
8-20. Highteen letters and deeds dating from the time of
the Ist dynasty of Ur, about B.c. 2400.
26-45. Twenty fragments of Cappadocian tablets, many of
which bear fine and complete impressions of seal
cylinders. About s.c. 2200.
II. 1. Inscription of Gimil-Sin, King of Ur, B.c. 2800,-
recording the building of a temple to the god of
Vmma.
2. Cone of Libit-Ishtar, with a Semitic inscription. A
rare and valuable object, as most of his cones are
inscribed in Sumerian.
3. Brick of Gudea, governor of Lagash.
4. Votive offering, cake (?).
6,7. Archaic tablets—Accounts, list of property, cattle,
eran, Geo
‘8, 9. Clay divining bowl and a broken case tablet.
0. Babylonian letter.
1. Receipt for cattle. Dynasty of Ur.
1. Brick bearing the name and titles of Rammanu-
Nirari I., son of Arik-dén-ilu, King of Assyria,
BeC., loco.
III.
D2?
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EV: 1. Foundation deposit tablet of Hannatum, King of
Lagash (Tall Loh), giving the names and titles
of the king and Akurgal, and recording the sink-
ing of a well in the temple of Ningirsu.
V. 1, 2. Two tablets inscribed with mathematical calcula-
tions. About B.c. 2400. :
3-22. Twenty commercial tablets of the Ist dynasty of
Babylon.
23-172. A collection of tablets inscribed with legal texts,
and dating from the early part of the Persian
Period.
173-262. Highty well-written tablets dealing with loans, con-
tracts, &c. Persian Period.
253-275. A collection of 23 tablets which were made during
the period that followed immediately after the
fall of Alexander’s Empire. The tablets are well
written in the Babylonian character, and are of
unusual thickness. The seal impressions on some
of them are of peculiar interest.
VI. 1-151. A collection of commercial documents and lists
written during the late Babylonian and Persian
Periods; two scribe’s exercise tablets, and frag-
ments of two literary texts. The dated tablets
bear the names of Shamash-shum-ukin, Nabo-
polassar, Nebuchadnezzar II., Nabonidus, Cyrus,
Darius, Cambyses, and Artaxerxes.
Vil. A large and important collection of North Syrian
antiquities : —
1-7. A group of seven bas-reliefs in hard grey stone,
similar to basalt, on which are sculptured :
1. The figures of an archer, after an Assyrian
design.
A man on horseback, soldier or trainer (?).
Horseman wearing a conical cap and hold-
ing a shield.
. A man holding a noose or lasso.
A king.
. Warrior with spear and shield.
. A bird—vulture (?)
8-13. A group of six bas-reliefs in soft limestone (7),
coloured pink, on which are sculptured:
1. A conventional representation of the date
palm, copied from an Assyrian design.
2. The king ascending a ladder, resting against
a palm tree, to perform the ceremony of
fertilising the palm.
. Lioness.
. A boat on a stream in which fish are 'swim-
ming. :
. Figures of a gryphon and bird.
. A king slaughtering a prisoner by thrusting
a knife into his body.
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DEPARTMENT OF EGYPTIAN AND ASSYRIAN ANTIQUITIES.
14-125.
126-331.
332-343.
344-346.
347-851.
B0R.
303-365.
266-371.
BTR.
373.
374, 375.
376-398.
399.
400.
401-410.
411-414.
415-425.
426-433.
434-508.
509.
510.
511.
O12.
513.
514-518.
519-562.
563-614.
615-640.
641-654.
677-1504.
1505-1520.
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One hundred and twelve tablets and fragments
written during the latest Assyrian Period.
Two hundred and sixteen fragments of painted and
incised pottery of various periods.
Twelve fragments of glazed pottery.
Three fragments of pottery with Greek inscriptions.
Five stone figures, three-quarter length.
One small relief.
Thirteen boxes containing miscellaneous groups of
amulets, utchats, &c.
Six clay figures of a man and animals.
Stone head of a lioness.
Mutilated steatite female figure.
Two scarabs.
Twenty-three cylinder seals on which are cut signs,
&c., similar to those found on Hittite remains.
Stamp for cakes or bread. *
Clay impression of a scarab.
Ten miscellaneous objects with incised decoration.
Four boxes containing 78 bronze coins.
Eleven iron spear-heads.
Eight iron arrow-heads.
About seventy-five iron objects, rings, &c.
Bronze bowl.
Bronze cup.
Bronze axe-head.
Bronze ladle.
Bronze bell with iron clapper.
Five bronze arrow-heads.
About fifty-four bronze objects, handles, rings,
fibule, &e.
Fifty-two objects, in ivory, alabaster, &c.
Thirty-six stone bowls, stands and fragments.
Fourteen pottery vessels, dishes, bowls, jugs, lamp,
&e.
Eight hundred and fifty fragments of pottery of
various styles and periods.
Sixteen stone bowls and dishes.
Eighteen small racks containing specimens of sherds,
stones, &c.
Forty-six cardboard boxes containing specimens of
earth, stony deposits, sand, gravel, &ce.
Presents.
I.—A calcareous stone whorl of the Coptic Period.
IT.—A small gravestone with a Kifi inscription.
Presented by Captain D. S. Savours.
From Old
Basrah.
Presented by S. Meer, Esq.
IITI.—Squeeze of a Hittite bas-relief in the Taurus Mountains.
Presented by Colonel A. J. G. Bird, R.E.
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IV.—Green glazed faience scarab bearing the cartouche of
Thothmes III. About s.c. 1500.
Presented by Miss E. S. Tudor and H. Tudor, Esq.
V.—Hematite cylinder seal which was made for a wor-
shipper of the god Rammanu. About B.c. 1200.
Presented by Sur Albert Gray.
VI.—1. Bronze figure of the god Ra or of a king in the
character of Ra.
2. A small bronze figure of Osiris.
Presented by Miss HE. M. Palmer.
VI.—A piece of rope taken from the bitumen layer between
bricks at Mukayyar (Ur).
Presented by Major C. A. Cusse.
VII.—1,2. Two pieces of blue beadwork.
3. Wooden hawk.
4. A hand.
5. A shabti figure.
6. A linen sheet.
7. Terra-cotta lamp.
8. Board used in teaching the Greek or Coptic
alphabet.
9-10. Two scarabs.
Presented by John Herratt, Esq.
VITI.—Vestiges of Assyria. Sheet No. 3.
Presented by the Registrar of Maps, India Office.
IX.—Fragment of a Sassanian brick from Noaterhie, M4l al-
Amir.
Presented by A. W. B. Holland, Esq.
X.—Stone portrait shabti figure. XIXth or XXth dynasty.
Presented by C. Pett Triscott, Esq.
XJI.—Green glazed steatite amulet inscribed ‘* Meri-Ra, Lord
of the Two Lands ”’ (Egypt).
Presented by J. H. Armstrong, Esq.
XITI.—1. A stone plaque with inscription of Bur-Sin, about
B.c. 2300.
2-11. A group of ten Babylonian'tablets written during the
reign of Bur-Sin and other kings of his dynasty.
12. A stone figure of a king with inscription. Modern
imitation.
Presented by Colonel S. Anderson, I.M.S.
XITI.—Clay cone bearing an inscription of Libit-Ishtar, an
early Babylonian king, about B.c. 2200.
Presented by Colonel A. G. H. Hogg.
XIV.—A stone sphinx mounted on a modern hard stone base.
From Denderah. Roman Period.
Presented by J. H. Kennedy, Esq.
XV.—1-4. Four small terra-cotta vases. Period uncertain.
Said to come from Maskat.
Presented by Mrs. Kossman.
XVI.—1. Mace-head dedicated, to Nergal by Laba Erishum,
the king’s diviner, for the life of Shu-dur-kib,
King of Agade.
DEPARTMENT OF EGYPTIAN AND ASSYRIAN ANTIQUITIES. 5b
2. Seal inscribed in Sumerian with prayers to the
goddess Nin-Sun, on behalf of Ubalisu-Marduk,
the servant of Kuri-galzu I. B.c. 1600.
Presented by Major V. E. Mocatta.
XVII.—1, 2. Two-handled handsome alabaster jar with painted
frontal design, and an alabaster unguent jar.
From the tomb of Menephthah I. in the Valley
of the Tombs of the Kings at Thebes.
Presented by the Right Hon. the Earl of Carnarvon.
XVIII.—Porcelain bead bearing the names of the Nubian King
Tet-ka-Ra Shabaka.
Presented by Captain the Hon. R. Bethell.
XIX.—Limestone amulet with illegible Babylonian inscription.
Presented by Colonel Luamoore. ;
XX.—1, 2. Two blue glazed shabti figures, uninscribed.
Presented by J. Pollak, Esq.
XXI.—Blue glazed steatite scarab of Thothmes II.
Presented by Miss T. Weldon.
XXII.—1. The original map of the Al-Kab district in Upper
Egypt, drawn by F. W. Green in 1896, and five
printed copies of the same.
2. *“ Christian Antiquities in the Nile Valley,’ by
Somers Clarke, Oxford, 1912, 4to (with added
notes, letters, extracts from periodicals and draw-
ings, and 24 photographs).
3. Fifty-six drawings and tracings (originals of the
illustrations of the above work).
4. Fifteen photographs of scale drawings of the
churches in the Wadi Natrtin (made for the
Comité de Conservation des Monuments de |’ Art
Arabe). i
5. Hight photographs of scale drawings of the Kasrash-
Shamina. (Nos. 3-5 are bound up in one volume.)
Presented by Somers Clarke, Esq., F S.A.
XXIII.—Head and forefront of a small ivory Sphinx, probably
representing a Hyksos Pharaoh, grasping the
figure of a prostrate Hgyptian. From Abydos.
Middle Empire. . Unique.
2. Ivory figure of a boy squatting; on the base is the
name of the steward Ata. XIIth dynasty. A
very fine object.
. Mother-of-emerald figure of Maat; a rare and
valuable object.
. Red pottery bowl. IVth dynasty.
. Red and black ware pot. XIIth dynasty.
Plain red ware jug. XVIIIth dynasty.
Red pottery—woman and _ child. XVITIth
dynasty.
. Black ware jug.
. Three-handled pilgrim bottle. Roman.
. Red model vase. XVIIIth dynasty.
. Black model jug. XVIIIth dynastv.
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13.
14.
15.
16.
17:18:
19.
20.
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23.
24.
20.
26.
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28.
29.
30.
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32, 33.
34.
35.
36.
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38.
39.
ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
Blue marble alabastron, with hd. XIXth dynasty.
Blue marble alabastron, without lid. XIXth
dynasty.
Bronze vase, with lily handle. New Empire.
Bronze dagger. XIIth dynasty. From Abydos.
Bronze razor.
Bronze arrow-heads.
Wooden scoop.
Figure of a pelican. XIIth dynasty.
Clay figure of a naked dancing girl. XIIth dynasty.
Clay model hoe.
Blue glazed porcelain bunch of grapes.
Glazed ware button seal. From Abydos. XIIth
dynasty.
Glazed scarab of Amenemhat III. From Abydos.
XIIth dynasty.
Glazed cylinder seal of Amenemhat III. From
Abydos. XIIth dynasty.
Glazed cylinder seal. From Abydos. XIIth dynasty.
Glazed scarab with spirals. From Abydos. XIIth
dynasty.
Glazed scarab. From Abydos. - XIIth dynasty.
Blue glazed porcelain scarab of Sebek. XVIIIth
dynasty.
Blue glazed steatite scarab of Amenhetep I.
XVIIIth dynasty.
Two blue glazed steatite searabs. XVIIIth dynasty.
Blue glazed steatite scarab of Hatshepsut. X VIIIth
dynasty.
Blue glazed steatite frog. XVIIIth dynasty.
Blue glazed porcelain cow. XVIIIth dynasty.
Bronze ring, with scarab of Rameses II.
Blue glazed porcelain hawk. Late period.
Slate object—pre-dynastic ?
Presented by Mrs. Russell Rea.
EL. A. Wallis Budge.
DEPARTMENT OF GREEK AND ROMAN ANTIQUITIES. 57
DEPARTMENT OF GREEK AND RoMAn ANTIQUITIES.
1.—A'rrangement.
1. The Sculpture Galleries.—During the early months of the
year the remaining storecasts and casts, which had formed a
part of the Temporary War Time Exhibition, were returned to
their proper places, and all traces of war-time conditions were
thus etfaced from the Galleries.
In May a rearrangement of the Ephesus Room was under-
taken. he sculptures of the older Temple of Ephesus were
concentrated in the middle of the East side of the room and
delimited by the provision of wooden screens. The corners of
the room were cleared by the removal of the Dionysos of
Thrasyllos and the Cypriote bull-headed capital to the
Mausoleum Room. In the vacant north-east corner a series of
Greek portrait busts was arranged. In the opposite south-east
angle was installed a series illustrative of the schools of sculpture
of the 4th century B.c., including the Towneley Venus, the
Nicocleia statue and several busts from the Third Greco-Roman
Room.
A rearrangement of the Second Graeco-Roman Room was
undertaken with the object of forming a similar series of the
sculpture types of the 5th century B.c. The Vaison Diadu-
menos was brought from the First Greco-Roman Room to fill
the alcove formerly occupied by the Towneley Venus; the West-
macott athlete and other pieces were transferred from the Third
Greco-Roman Room.
In the First Greco-Roman Room the large altar of Calpur-
nius from Ephesus and the colossal bust of Faustina from Sardis
have been placed on exhibition. In the Third Greco-Roman
Room minor adjustments have been made, necessitated by the
rearrangement elsewhere. In the Elgin Room, three newly
acquired casts of fragments have been inserted into the Frieze
of the Parthenon. In the Hall of Inscriptions and the Gallery
of Roman portraits, all sculptures were covered up during the
repainting of the rooms and afterwards replaced on exhibition.
The contents of the Gallery of Casts and the Carthaginian base-
ment and the mosaics on the north-west staircase have also been
cleaned. : .
Eighteen pieces of sculpture or fragments have been repaired
and fifty-nine mounted ; eighteen inscriptions have been mounted
and eighty-three plinths and pedestals cleaned and repolished.
Six sculptures at the Natural History Museum have been cleaned.
Moulds have been made of two slabs and a fragment of the
Frieze of the Parthenon, and of three slabs of the Frieze of the
Mausoleum. Six busts have been restored in plaster. The store
casts of the Harpy Tomb and of the Frieze of the Parthenon have
been repaired.
2. The Upper Gallertes—In preparation for structural
work on the roof, the First and Second Vase Rooms have been
completely cleared and the vases placed in storage in the other
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rooms. A temporary exhibition illustrative of the contents of
these two rooms has been arranged in the Third Vase Room.
The exhibition of Greek and Roman Life has been re-
arranged and renumbered throughout in correspondence with the
new edition of the Guide.
In the Terracotta Room a rearrangement of the exhibited
and unexhibited collections has been made and a new Finding
List of Terracottas prepared. The Finding List of Bronzes is
similarly in process of revision; the standard case of large
bronzes has been refitted and rearranged to permit of the inclusion
of the Astor statue. In the Terracotta Room and the Room of
Ancient Life, all cases have been boarded up and shades removed
during repainting; at the conclusion of this, the rooms have
been restored to exhibition. A rearrangement of unexhibited
gems is in progress; and a large number of case fittings for the
Gold Ornament Room have been made.
A temporary exhibition illustrative of the collections made by
the Salonica Expeditionary Force has been arranged in the
Room of Ancient Life. Sixty-nine vases, fifty-six terracottas,
two gold, four silver, twenty-two iron, sixty-four bronze, one
wood, two stone and two glass objects have been cleaned and
repaired. Casts have been made from three hundred and ninety
gems and from two terracotta moulds. Seventy-one terracottas,
sixty-eight bronzes and two hundred and forty-eight rings and
gems have been mounted. Three hundred and eighty objects were
registered, and one thousand three hundred and eight numbered ;
seventy-four labels were written and forty-seven printed. One
hundred and eight vases were measured to supply materials for
the study of Mr. Jay Hambidge’s system.
The number of visits to the Departmental Library and
Students’ Room for the purposes of research was 359; there were
1,450 visits to the staff for enquiry or on Departmental business.
Seventy-nine tickets were issued and 27 renewed to students of
art and architecture, who made 1,272 attendances in the Sculp-
ture Galleries,
3. Publications.—The revised editions of the Guide to the
Exhibition of Ancient Life and of the Departmental Guide have
been issued. The Catalogue of Silver Plate has been set up in
type. Progress has been made with the Catalogue of Vases,
Vol. I., part I, and with the revised edition of the Catalogue of
Gems. Four new sets of pictorial postcards have been placed on
sale, the subjects being Greek Terracottas, Greek Sculpture in
Relief, Greek Statuary, and Roman Imperial Portraits. Two
sets have been reissued, namely the Exhibition of Greek and
Roman Life, and the Frieze of the Parthenon.
— [L.— Acquisitions.
I.—Sculpture in Stone and Marble.
1.—Unfinished statuette of the archaic Apollo type; height
°39 metre. Found in the Stamato Vouni Quarry, on
Mount Pentelicus in Attica. Revue Archéologique, 4th
series, XI., p. 40. Presented by the late Canon Rawn-
sley through the National Art-Collections Fund.
DEPARTMENT OF GREEK AND ROMAN ANTIQUITIES. 59
2.—Sepulchral relief of L. Ampudius Philomusus; within a
frame, busts of wife, husband and daughter; on either
side, a modius or corn-measure. Ht. -61 m., Length
163 m. Found about 1700 near the Porta Capena,
Rome; during the 18th century in the Villa Casali;
recovered from a garden at Putney, previous to which
it had lain for at least fifty years in a contractor’s yard
in North London. C.J.L., VI., 11595; VI. 4, 34044,
and Journal of Roman Studies, VIII., pl. 2, p. 179,
where references to the older literature are given.
3.—Fragment of seated figure on a throne sculptured on back
and front with two tiers of reliefs. Ht. 32 m. From
the Atkinson Collection; said, probably erroneously, to
have formed part of the Elgin Collection. Journal of
Hellen. Stud. V1., p. 48, No. 5.
4.—Votive relief of Zeus Sabazios on horseback; inscribed
Evtvyos Ai SaBakio Kat svipov yapiotnpiov. Acquired in
Constantinople. Presented by W. H. Buckler, Esq.
5.—Sepulchral relief of banquet, inscribed téxvm yAvKUTAaT@
pveias yapuv.
6.—Sepulchral relief; two busts, male and female.
7.—Votive relief; horseman, youth on altar, and tree.
8.—Slab bearing the inscription C.I.G. 3332, ,copied at
Smyrna about 1710. Presented by the Committee of
the Guildhall Museum.
II.—Gems and Glass.
9.—Carnelian gland, Minoan; intaglio of a cuttle-fish; from
Crete. Presented by Henry Burgon, Esq.
10.—Rock crystal scarabeoid intaglio of a seated girl playing
a lyre. Found about 1819; formerly in the Ross,
Broendsted and Cockerell collections. Broendsted,
Voyages de la Gréce, II., vignette and p. 277; King,
Antique Gems, II., pl. XVII. B. No. 7; Furtwaengler,
Antike Gemmen, pl. XIV., No. 20; Geschichte, p. 187;
Burlington Fine Arts Club, Exhibition of Greek Art,
Catalogue, L. 1538, pl. 68, p. 181; Encycl. Brit.,
11th ed., s.v. Gems, pl. IT. 36. |
11.—Sard scarab with an intaglo of a female head; fourth
century B.C.
12.—Sard scarabeoid with an intaglio of a cow; inscribed V.
MAQRINVS.
13.—Sard intaglio of the Ephesian Artemis. Presented by
A. P. Ready, Esq.
14.—Burnt sard intaglio with head of Ariadne; the reverse
has been re-used as a signet ring, with a Cufic inscrip-
tion. Presented by Mrs. F. Macalister.
III.—Gold and Silver.
15.—Pair of Greek earrings of finest style of 4th century B.C.,
with palmettes and wave-pattern.
60 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OI THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
16.—Pair of earrings in the form of a cluster of pendant
leaves; from Populonia.
17.—Large bulla with aor and tongue decoration; from
Populonia.
18.—Two pairs of earrings in the form of a duck with fine
filigree work.
19.—Pair of earrings with beads of pea and glass and
pendant in the form of a deer’s-head rhyton.
20.—Silver finger-ring with intaglio of a squirrel. Presented
by W. Barclay Squire, Esq.
IV .—Bronze.
21.—Stand for a vase; four panels with open work reliets of a
seated citharist and figures bringing offerings, alter-
nating with conventional trees. From Curium, Cyprus;
an example of the class of bronze vessels associated with
the metal furniture of the Temple of Solomon (I.
Kings, vil., and see Furtwaengler, Kleine Schriften,
TD 5592-298)!
22.—Statue of a priestess, two-thirds life size; formerly con-
sidered a portrait of Drusilla, sister of Caligula. Ht.
95 m. Revue Arch. 1909, p. 177; Times of June 19
and July 3, 1909; Jllustrated London News of Ist Jan.,
1910; Reinach, Répertoire, IV., p. 307. Bequeathed
by the late Viscount Astor.
23.—Statuette of Athena-Isis-Fortuna; a pantheistic combina-
tion of attributes hitherto unknown, though Athena-
Isis and Athena-Fortuna are known and Isis-Fortuna is
common. Weber Collection.
24.—Helmet of early Corinthian form. Transferred from the
Umited Services Museum.
25.—Copper implement of early date; hammer-head with
socket, balanced by an animal’s head. From Laurium.
26. _—Twenty- two Italian fibule, mainly of early types. Pre-
sented by the Committee if the Guildhall Museum.
27.—Toe, broken from the foot of a colossal statue. Presented
by A. Lawson, Esq.
28.—Funnel, with incised patterns.
29.—Mirror in case.
30.—Iron chisel, pincers, link of chain and fragments of
balance. From the Province of Cordova, Spain. Pre-
sented by A. Taylor, Esq.
V.—Vases.
3i.—Large beaked jug of late Cycladic style. Ht.'4m. From
Melos or Thera. Presented by G. Dunn, Esq.
32.—Mycenean kylix; on each side, a serpent. From Vari.
33.—Jug of Phaleron ware; two horses at a manger; birds and
geometric patterns.. From Vari.
34.—Plate of Corinthian style; animals and rosettes. From
Vari.
35.—Late Corinthian kylix; on each side, two dancing figures.
Fairfax Murray Coll.
DEPARTMENT OF GREEK AND ROMAN ANTIQUITIBS. 61
36.—Early Attic black-figure kylix; on each side, dance oi
men and women. fairfax Murray Coll.
37.—Feeding bottle ; on the top, a black- figure frieze of a
hunting scene in ‘‘ Kleinmeister’’ style.
38.—Attic black-figure aie ae Theseus slaying the Minotaur,
and other figures.
39.—Attic black-figure skyphos; lion behind a tree confronting
a herd of cattle. For a similar vase, compare Heine-
mann, Landschaftl. Elemente in d. Grech. Kunst,
fig. 14. Fairfax Murray Coll.
40.—Attic black-figure lekythos; owls, and in centre, a Siren
standing on an altar playing a lyre.
41.—Large lekythos of late Attic black-figure style; combat,
with Athena between the protagonists. Inscribed
kahos 0 Trais doxei vary! €uol, vari.
42.—Lekythos with design in opaque paint; Centaur pursuing
an armed man. Presented by C. Ware, Esq.
43.—Kylix of early red-figure style, signed by the potter
Kuergides. Interior, woman dancing ; exterlor, young
men and groom with horses. Found at Old Capua, and
first published in Annali dell’ Inst., 1849, p. 145, pl. B.
Afterwards lost to view for many years, For full refer-
ence‘to the literature, see Hoppin, Handbook of Ked-
Figure Vases, Vol. I., p. 366.
44.—Kylix, red-figure style. Interior, Victory and youth; ex-
terior, Victory crowning Theseus who turns away from
the prostrate. Minotaur, a new type for this subject.
Fairfax Murray Sale.
45.—Hydria of strong red-figure style; the Lapith Kaineus
overwhelmed by two Centaurs. Formerly in the Barone
Coll. Bull. Napol., VI., pl. 2. Reinach, Répertoire,
I., p. 474.
46.—Bell- crater, late red-figure style; Marsyas playing on the
flutes. in the presence of Apollo and two Muses. Deep-
dene Coll.
47.—Hydria of finest red-figure style. Toilet scene; seated
mistress and maid with casket.
48.—Pyxis of fine red-figure style; on box, a marriage proces-
sion with chariot, herald andi torch-bearers; on: lid,
Helios, Selene and Nyx. (Sotheby’s Catalogue, Dec. 6,
1921, plate.)
49.—White Lekythos with design in varnished outline; man
with drawn sword (‘‘ Tyrannicide-’ type) advancing
from a house.
50.—White Lekythos with design in dull outline and wash;
tombstone with old man and boy with hoop.
51.—Guttus of early Italian red-figure style; grotesque pro-
cession of Menad, Seilenos and Satyrs, goiny to a revel.
52.—Fragment of Samian ware, showing imperfect modelling.
From Puy-de-Dome. Presented by H. H. Cox, Esq.
53.—Fifteen Roman vases from the Rhineland, of various red
and grey fabrics. Presented by the Committee of the
Guildhall Museum.
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_ 64.--Roman cup of black ware, found with a stone painter’s
palette and other fragments in a tomb on the French
front. Presented by Lieut. C. M. Grieve. -
59.—Lamp with bust of Athena and stamp of the potter
Lucius. Presented by S. C. Atchley, Esq.
56.—Lamp. with bust of Vitellius (modern). Presented by
L. A. Lawrence, Esq.
V1.—Terra cottas.
57.—Tablet inscribed in the Minoan script. Presented by
Major F. W. B. Willett.
58.—Two fragmentary statuettes; one of Graeco-Phenician,
one of Hellenistic style. From Larnaca, Cyprus.
Presented by Col. D. H. Colnaghi.
59.—Statuette of draped young man holding a lyre; style of
early fifth century B.c. From Lamia.
60.—Statuette of standing youth with drapery over shoulder;
the head has been moulded separately; on the back is
inscribed the maker’s name IIatpogiitov. From North
Syria. Presented by Major C. L. Woolley.
61.—Pair of clay sealings stamped with impressions of the
head of Athena. From Heat Presented by J. D.
Beazley, Esq.
62.—Series of votive eyes. From the site of Lake Regillus.
Presented by Miss E. B. Ede. |
63.—Tile bearing the sepulchral inscription of a child Kerasa:
evtuyet Kepaca ’Acidiao avatos érov 6. From Sinai.
Presented by L. Richmond Wheeler, Esq.
VII.—Casts and Reproductions.
64.—EHlectrotype copy of the situla of Kuffarn (Mitt. d. An-
thropol. Ges. nm Wien, 1891, XXI., pl. 9).
65.—Hlectrotype copies of geometric and medical instruments
from Pompeii. .
66.—Plaster casts of one slab and nine fragments of the
Frieze of the Parthenon. Presented through the
British School at Athens by the Greek Government.
A. H. Smith.
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DEPARTMENT OF BRITISH AND MrpIa@vaAaL ANTIQUITIES AND
ETHNOGRAPHY.
1.—Arrangement, Cataloguing, etc.
Prehistoric Room.—The exhibition drawers in the Central
Saloon have been overhauled, and two table-cases re-arranged.
The labelling of the Greenwell Collection has been continued.
Iron Age Gallery.—A series of Teutonic finger-rings has been
specially mounted and exhibited in a table-case.
Room of Roman Sritain.—Additions have been made to the’
exhibits of New Forest and Pudding Pan Rock pottery, and
moulds exhibited in a table-case.
King Edward VII. Gallery (Ground Floor).—The arrange-
ment of the medieval collections and European pottery and
porcelain was completed, and the western portion of the gallery
opened to the public in July. The collections of Oriental
Ceramics and Glass are in course of arrangement in the eastern
portion.
Christian Room and Buddhist Room.—The temporary
arrangement of the Harly Christian collections made for the
opening of the gallery to the public is in course of revision.
The large wooden Buddhist figure has been exhibited in the
Buddhist Room in place of the Chinese altar furniture now
removed to the King Edward VII. Gallery.
Room of Indian Religions.—The colossal bronze figure of a
Chinese dignitary has been removed to the top of the Grand
Staircase, and its place taken by a Hindu stone relief from
Bihar. Some re-arrangements have been made, and a number
of fresh labels provided.
Asiatic Saloon.—A temporary exhibition of a large portion
of the Mexican and Central American Antiquities, and of the
North American stone age, has been made. The Tower Collection
of Oriental arms has been re-arranged, and permanent fittings
provided.
Ethnographical Gallery.—A temporary exhibition of the
greater part of the South American Antiquities has been made
in the Asiatic section. The Kabyle pottery, part of which had
been removed for safety, has been re-exhibited, and several of
the wall-cases entirely re-arranged. Numerous additions have
been made to the exhibits and many fresh labels provided in all
sections. The whole of the contents of table-case cupboards and
drawers has been examined. .
Basement.—The whole of the ethnographical material, which
had been temporarily accommodated in the former Departmental
Offices, has now been checked, sorted and stored in the basement,
including the collection of Christy duplicates. The re-arrange-
ment of collections stored in the basement has been continued
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in such a way as to ensure the maximum of accessibility to
students under present conditions, and the provision of an index
to these collections is in progress. That portion of the Chinese
and other Oriental ethnographical collections which was stored
in cupboards in the King Edward VII. Gallery has been trans-
ferred to the basement. The unpacking of the Sturge Collection
and its arrangement and storage in cases has been completed.
Registration, etc.—The registration of current acquisitions
has been continued and 1,614 objects have been added, including
ethnographical specimens. The cataloguing of the French and
Spanish pottery is in progress. Numbers have been painted on
1,825 specimens, and 1,296 permanent labels have been written.
“Objects have been mounted to the number of 908; 380 ring-
mounts have been covered with cloth, and the rings mounted
upon them, and a number of ring-impressions made and mounted ;
52 mounting-boards have been prepared and a number of case
fittings covered with cloth; 529 labels have been typewritten and
114 printed; 118 photographs have been taken, 66 photographic
prints and 10 lantern-slides made. The wall-cases in the Pre-
historic Room, Iron Age Gallery, Room of Roman Britain, and
the Rooms of Oriental Religions have been photographed. A
large number iof specimenls have been cleaned, repaired and
restored. The card-catalogue of the departmental library has
been continued. .
Publications.—A ‘second edition of the Bronze Age Guide
and a monograph on the Chinese Statue of a Lohan have been
prepared and published. A Guide to the Room of Roman
Britain and a second edition of the Guide to the Karly Christian
and Byzantine Antiquities are in preparation. A Catalogue of
the Medieval Enamels is in progress. A series of pictorial post-
cards illustrating Indian art with descriptive letterpress has been
published, and letterpress has been prepared for a series of post-
cards illustrating English porcelain.
Much assistance has been given by Mr. Longworth Dames in
the preparation of a slip catalogue and in the arrangement and
labelling of the collections illustrating Oriental Religions, and
Mr. Oscar Raphael has devoted much time to the arrangement
of the Ceramic Collections.
Two lectures have been delivered by a member of the Staff in
the Prehistoric Room and the Iron Age Gallery.
Students.—1,218 students and visitors have been received in
the Department.
2.—Acquisitions.
(1) Prehistoric and Early British Antiquities :—
(a) Stone Age.—Two paleoliths found at the Foreland, Isle
of Wight (see Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society,
XXVI_., 542), and Warsash, N.E. of Southampton Water respec-
tively, from the collection of the late Thomas Codrington, Esq.,
F.G.S. Presented by Commander G. G. Codrington.
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Conical flint plane from Redhill, Dyke Road, Brighton, and
worked flint flake from Stow, Suffolk. Presented by G. J.
Buscall fox, Esq.
Large series of pygmy flints from various localities from the
collection of the late Dr. Colley March. Presented by Mrs.
Colley March.
Series of flint implements of rostro-carinate form, some figured
in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, B. 202,
pl. 15, I, and figs. 18, 19, 25 and 26 in text, from Suffolk,
Foot Bill, Sussex, etc. Presented by Sir E. Ray Lankester,
(Ga cay
Kleven flint implements from rock-shelters, etc., Oldbury,
Kent. Presented by Benjamuin Harrison, Esq.
Series of neolithic flints collected by the donor in Tilgate
Forest, Sussex (Sussex Archeological Collections, LV., 128).
Presented by Dr. Edgar Willett.
Diorite celt found at Longdon Marsh in a ditch at S. end of
Malvern Hills, 1860, and made of local stone. Presented by
aD. Acland, Usq., F S.A.
Series of flint implements from Yorkshire. Bequeathed by
Thomas Boynton, Esq., F.S.A.
Chalk lump cut nearly spherical, found by the donor on Floor
52, Grime’s Graves, near Weeting, Norfolk. Presented by Rev.
H. G. O. Kendall, F.S.A.
Two chalk carvings excavated by the donor at Grime’s Graves,
near Weeting, Norfolk. Presented by Derek Richardson, Esq.
(b) Bronze Age.—Gold hoop with trumpet-ends, found near
a stone coffin in Islay, Scotland. Bequeathed by Eleanore Anne,
Lady Trevelyan, widow of Rt. Hon. Sir Charles Trevelyan,
K.C.B., through Mrs. James Anstruther.
Series of food-vessels, beads, etc., mostly from Ireland and
Scotland. Presented by N. D. Smith, Esq.
Series of jet beads and studs from Yorkshire. Presented by
the Earl of Feversham.
Two-handled vase of black pottery, figured and described in
Proc. of the Society of Antiquaries, xxv., 84-88. It resembles
ware from Troy of about the 9th century B.c., and was found
in the Thames gravel below Hammersmith.
Chert core and arrowhead from Bralo, Mount Parnassus.
Presented by Rev. Harold Pyner.
(c) Foreign.—Ten flint implements from the trenches at
Coigneux, 16 miles S.W. of Arras. Presented by Capt. Francis
Buckley.
Twelve stone specimens of the Vespestad type (shell-mound
stage of neolithic period), excavated by the donor on the Isle of
Boemmel, S. of Bergen, Norway. Presented by Dr. Haakon
Shetelig, Hon. F.S.A.
Ten stone specimens of Néstvet type (early neolithic) from
. Kristiania Fjord, Norway. Presented by Dr. A. W, Brogger.
Stone implements and flakes from Imbros found in the bank
of a stream. Presented by Capt. Hugh Copley, R.A.F.
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Re-chipped polished celt (Dolmen period) obtained in Paris.
Presented by C. R. Jenmngs, Esq.
Bronze statuettes and ring-brooches, Early Iron Age, from
Despefiaperros, Spain. Presented by C. T. Andrews, Esq.
Gold capsule of the Oxus Treasure type; 4th century B.c.
from N.W. India.
(2). Romano-British : —
Pottery and pieces of kiln-lining from a kiln at Sloden, New
Forest, Hants. Presented by Heywood Sumner, Esq., F.S.A.
Specimens of ‘‘ Samian ’’ pottery from the Pudding Pan Rock,
off Herne Bay, Kent (Proc. Soc. Antig., xxi, 279). Presented
by the Inbrarian, Guildhall, London.
Pottery lamp with cross found near Tidworth House, Wilts.
Presented by W. G. Wise, Esq.
(3) Anglo-Saxon and Foreign Teutonic :—
Anglo-Saxon shield-boss, brooches, etc., from Dorchester.
Presented by the Inbrarian, Guildhall, London.
Anglo-Saxon iron girdle-hanger from Cliffe, near Rochester.
Presented by F. Wright, Esq.
Part of a Merovingian pin with bird-terminal, and brooch in
ie form of a horse. Presented by Lows C. G. Clarke, Esq.,
F.S.A.
Bronze penannular brooch, early 9th century, from the Island
of Mull, Scotland, figured in Proc. of the Society of Antiquaries -
of Scotland, xiii, 70, fig. 2. Presented by N. D. Smith, Esq.
Bronze medallion set with blue glass inlaid with silver, Scotie
work of about a.p. 800, from the collection of Sir Benjamin
Chapman at Killua, W. Meath.
(4) Medieval and Later: —
(a) British.—Bronze candlestick in the form of a centaur
playing a fiddle, 13th century. Found at Felixstowe, Suffolk, in.
digging trenches.
Bronze seal-matrix, late 13th century, from Salisbury (Evans
Collection).
Bronze seal-matrix, 13th century, found in the Close, Exeter,
1887 (Evans Collection). Presented by Maurice Rosenhewm,
Esq, Ef S:Ae
Seventeen seal-matrices, two described and figured in Proc.
Soc. Anttq., xxiii, 105, another in Proc. Soc. Antug., xxv, 78.
Two ivory panels, 14th century.
Bronze pax, late 15th century, described and figured in Proc.
Soc. Antiq., xxv, 27.
Gold badge of the Order of the Garter, jewelled and set with
an onyx cameo, about 1660.
Cup of Boscobel oak turned and mounted in silver, used at
the audit dinner of the Dean and Chapter of Worcester.
Bequeathed by Mrs. Editha Wathen.
Pewter plate, 18th century, with stamps and initials F.S.G.
Presented by W. E. Bennett, Esq.
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Sextant in mahogany case, made by Cary, London, formerly
the property of David Walker, surgeon and naturalist under Sir
L. McClintock in the search for Franklin 1857-9. Presented by
Miss Constance M. Steel.
Steel official seal-matrix of the Nyassaland Protectorate (temp.
George V.), damaged by fire and replaced. Presented by the
Lord President of the Council.
(6) Forergn.—Series of bronze seal-matrices, Italian, 14th
caaiey and later, collected by Commander Francesco Grecchi,
Milan.
Gold seal-ring, N. Lombard, found at Bergamo, Italy.
Bronze seal-matrix of Jean d’Orlencourt, found in digging
trenches near Arras, 1917. Presented by Major E. St. Clair
Harnett.
Sard intaglio signed AIITOAANNIAOY, formerly in the
Poniatowski Collection. Bequeathed by Eleanore Anne, widow
of Rt. Hon. Sir Charles Trevelyan, K.C.B., through Mrs. James
Anstruther. ,
(5) Ceramic and Glass Collections :—
(a) Oriental Wares.—Harthenware model of a cooking-stove,
Chinese, Han dynasty. Presented by Lady Cunard.
Three Chinese pottery specimens of the Han dynasty, two of
the T’ang dynasty, a pottery figure of the T’ang dynasty, and
two pottery bowls, Ming dynasty, from tombs in Szechuan, S.W.
China. :
Vase, T’ang dynasty, with enamelled colours.
Two Chinese porcelain bowls, one of the Sung, the other of
the Ming dynasty, and fifteen specimens of Japanese pottery
and porcelain. Presented by the Misses Alexander.
A remarkable stoneware glazed bulb-bowl, Chiin Yao, Sung
dynasty, made at Chiin Chou, Honan; given in commemoration
of Sir Hercules Read’s completion of 40 years’ service at the
Museum. Presented by G. Eumorfopoulos, Esq., F.S.A.
Chinese pottery tiles, one blue-glazed, from the Temple of
Heaven, the other green-glazed, from the Temple of Confucius,
the latter taken during the Boxer Rising at Pekin. Presented
by Alfred Harburn, Esq.
Early Persian pottery bowl. Presented by Sir Henry
Howorth, K.C.1.E., through the National Art Collections Fund.
Persian lustre-bottle, with date 1180 a.p.
Six specimens of modern ware in the ancient style, made at
Kutahia, Anatolia. Presented by Mrs. J. Valentine Salvage.
(6) Continental.—Kight jugs of majolica, 15th and 16th
centuries, found in excavations at Orvieto, Italy.
Dutch Delft figure, about 1660. Bequeathed by Thomas
Boynton, Esq., F S.A.
Nine pottery fragments from waste-heaps at Bologna, Italy;
eight pottery tiles from Toledo, and two pottery bowls excavated
in Seville, Spain. Presented by Dr. W. L. Hildburgh, F.S.A.
Cup and saucer of Capo di Monte porcelain.
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(c) English.—Pottery ball inlaid with marble and _ star
pattern, found at Ruscombe, Berks, 1862. Bequeathed by Mrs.
Editha Wathen.
Copy of a German stove-tile with date 1561, made in Fulham
aoe and signed H.M. Presented by Sir Hercules Read,
S.A.
Sixteen pieces of English pottery and porcelain. Bequeathed
by Thomas Boynton, Esq., F.S.A.
Pottery jug, marked PRATT, late 18th century. Presented
by R. L. Hobson, Esq.
Box of fragments of tin-glazed earthenware from the site of
the potteries at Wincanton, Somerset, formerly in the Bristol
Museum. Presented by W. Pountney, Esq.
(d) Glass.—Two pieces of antique glass.
(6) Collection illustrating various religions :—
(a) Christianity.—An ivory liturgical diptych with a Greek
inscription written between a.D. 623 and a.p. 662; probably
used in a church in the diocese of Hermonthis.
A pair of bronze openwork Coptic earrings from Cairo. Pre-
sented by Captain Murray.
A portion of a painted wooden ikon from Russia. Presented
by Howard Carter, Esq. 7
A glass money-weight with bust of the Emperor Justinian.
Presented by Col. the Hon. Milo. G. Talbot.
(6) Buddhism.—A Chinese wooden statue of more than life-
size, representing a Buddhist personage, probably of the 12th
century. Presented by the National Art Collections Fund and
others.
A gilt figure of a seated Buddha from Burma. Presented by
Mrs. Roberts.
A. brass figure of Buddha seated on a lotus throne.
A gilt bronze Lamaistic figure of Avalokitesvara, small life-
size, from Tibet.
A Gandh&ara stone relief, representing Buddha enthroned
between worshippers. Presented by Lt.-Col. H. S. Moberley.
(c) Hinduwism.—Two early Hindu stone sculptures from Java,
representing Saktis of Bodhisattvas. Presented by Col. Sir John
Hall, Bart.
A brass lingam with figures of Nandi and a Naga, obtained
at Deolali, Bombay, and said to have come from Nasik. Pre-
sented by E. G. Millar, Esq.
(d) Mohammedanism.—A Mohammedan engraved standard
of silvered copper. Presented by Mrs. Hallinan.
(e) Zoroastrianism.—A_ stone panel relief of a male figure
with cloak, representing Athar, the Persian fire-god, from Masjid
Suleiman. Presented by Dr. M. Y. Young.
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(7) Oriental and Ethnographical :—
Asia.—Three Turkish bows, a bow-ring, bracer, and arrows,
-together with descriptive notes and sections illustrating the
structure of the composite bow. Presented by Lady Payne
Gallwey.
A bronze horse-bit of early date obtained in Mesopotamia.
A silver ring, set with a sapphire glass cameo of the head of
a Persian king.
A relief in iron and brass representing a saint seated between
two lions. Indo-Persian. Presented by Mrs. Hallinan.
A portion of an early Indian stone relief, representing a
banquet scene. Presented by Sir Hercules Read, P.S.A.
A bronze Brahmi seal of the 4th century a.p. Presented by
Mrs. M.S. Jacomb.
A gold ring with sapphire, a gold earring, and a garnet
intaglio with name Animida, dating a.p. 480-500, from India.
A jewelled armlet from India. Presented by Mrs. dH.
Randolph Rose.
A number of bronze objects and beads from three early graves
in the Ranchi district, Chota Nagpur, India. Collected by
Sarat Chandra Roy.
Four strings of stone beads found in association with leaden
coins dating 250 s.c.-150 a.p. at Gudevada, Khrishna District,
S. India. Presented by E. D. Puzey, Esq.
A selection from a series of crystal, stone, and pottery beads,
together with a piece of limonite in which a number of beads are
embedded; found while clearing jungle at Deniyaya, Ceylon.
Presented by the Beverley Tea and Rubber Estates Ltd.
A number of native woven and dyed cloths from the Naga
tribes, Assam. Presented by Major J. Hardcastle.
A native hand-woven coat and leggings from the Mru, a kilt
or shawl from the Nung, and a belt from the Khamti Shan
tribes, Upper Burma. Presented by L. Lacey Langley, Esq.
A circular mirror of speculum metal with relief designs, of
the Han dynasty, from China. Presented by Prof. Masumt
Chikashige.
Africa.—An ethnographical series, including a number of
silver amulets and ornaments, from the Oasis of Siwa, Sudan.
Presented by W. Seymour Walker, Esq.
A series of ethnographical objects chiefly from Bassa and
Kabba Provinces, Northern Nigeria. Presented by C. A.
Woodhouse, Esq.
.A carved ivory double armlet of ancient Benin work, W.
Africa.
An ethnographical series, including a number of objects in
cast bronze, from Benin, West Africa.
A plaster cast of an ivory cup with cover, in the possession
of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle-on-Tyne, of XVI cen-
tury West African work. Presented by Parker Brewis, Esq.,
F.S.A. ;
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A wooden idol, pottery bowl, and various other objects
obtained from the Aros near Arochuku, 8. Nigeria. Presented
by D. A. Macalister, Esq.
A wristlet of gold and glass beads taken from one of the
Ashanti temples, Gold Coast. Presented anonymously.
The robe and cap of the King of Dahomey, given to Vice-
Admiral Hardley Wilmot.
Two steatite carvings of a man and a woman from Mendiland,
Sierra Leone. Presented by Major Hugh Rochford.
A steatite figure obtained in about 1884 in the Yoni country,
- Sierra Leone. Presented by Major H. EH. Weaver.
A series of stone implements of paleolithic type, found at or
near the village of Katende, 40 miles from Luebo, in the gravels
of the Lulua River, Belgian Congo. Presented by the Rev. G.
Tollefsen.
An iron arrowhead, found in a cave at Kakontwe Quarry,
Katanga, Belgian Congo. Presented by Alexander Hay, Esq.
A Bushman ochre painting on stone, representing antelopes,
from Rhodesia. Presented by H. H. Hamling, Esq.
Two large digging-stick stones and several other stone imple-
ments from the Transvaal. Presented by Major T. G. Trevor.
The rod of office of a priestess of the ‘‘ Nabingi’’ Secret
Society, and a necklet of charms worn by the Muhundé Ndochi-
biri, from Kigezi, British Ruanda. Presented by Capt. J. E.
Philipps, M.C.
A nine-stringed guitar from the Uganda Protectorate. Pre-
sented by C. O. Skilbeck, Esq.
A series of beads found upon the seashore, and a
made from a camel’s scapula, from Zanzibar.
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slate ’’
Oceama.—A wooden cannibal fork from Fiji. Presented by
H.M. the King.
A large series of ethnographical objects, chiefly from Fiji,
Tonga and the New Hebrides, collected by the donor, and includ-
ing a large whale’s tooth given by King George Tubou of Tonga
to Thakombau, and an heirloom mat of Fatafehi, ‘‘ Divine King ”’
of Tonga. Presented by Sir Everard im Thurn, K.C.M.G.,
K.B.E., C.B.
A large series of stone implements, sculptures and other
objects from Easter and Pitcairn Islands, collected by the donor
and Mrs. Scoresby Routledge on their expedition to the Pacific,
1918-16. Presented by Scoresby Routledge, Esq., F.S.A.
A stone sculptured head, mounted on a shell ring, repre-
senting the ‘‘ tindalo’’ of Kulanikama, and a stalagmite armlet
and breast ring worn by his priest, from the Solomon Islands.
Presented by the Rev. Canon A. Penny.
A carved wooden block for printing ‘‘tapa’’ from Fiji.
Presented by Dr. A. P. Maudslay.
A kava bowl and dish from Fiji, and a paddle from the
Caroline Islands. Presented by C. O. Skilbeck, Esq.
A wooden slop-bewl studded with human teeth, formerly the
property of Kamehameha I, King of Hawaii.
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A fine carved club from the Marquesas Islands, and a jade
pendent charm from New Zealand. Bequeathed by Thomas
Boynton, Esq., F.S.A.
A Maori carved box for ‘‘ huia’’ feathers, from New Zealand.
America.—Two ancient pottery vases and two pottery heads
from the Valley of Mexico. Presented by Senor Manuel Gamo,
on behalf of the Government of Mexico.
_ A Maya painted vase found on the banks of the Rio Lempa
in Salvador, Central America.
An ancient pottery mould and impression, a figurine, and
two vases from Azcapotzalco, Mexico. Presented by Senor W.
Niven.
Several pottery vessels for burning copal found in a temple
at Menche, two ancient vessels from Alta Vera Paz, and two
vases from Peru. Presented by Dr. A. P. Maudslay.
Three silver cups, and a series of gold ornaments and other
objects from graves mainly at Ancon, Peru. Presented by G.
Lockett, Esq.
Seven ancient Peruvian vases from the Chicama Valley.
An ancient Peruvian copper knife obtained in Cuzco. Pre-
sented by W. G. Buchanan, Esq.
A small stone pestle with carved handle from Bogota, Republic
of Colombia. Presented by Sir Percy Wyndham, K.C.M.G.
Three stone arrowheads, a stone pendant, and a stone hook
for a spear-thrower, found at or near Cabo Verde, Minas Geraes,
Brazil. Presented by Dr. Alfonso Taunay.
A large series of ancient stone implements from the West
Indies. Presented by A. R. Braley, Esq.
A wooden chest carved with totemic designs and inlaid with
teeth and shell, from the Haida Indians, Queen Charlotte
Island. Presented by St. George Littledale, Esq.
A large wooden chest with totemic carvings, a carved baby-
carrier, a. totem-pole, and several other objects from the North
West Coast and New Mexico.
A carved horn spoon, wooden fork and spoon, and fish-hooks
from the North West Coast of America, and several other objects.
Presented by Miss Bowick.
A series of games and implements collected by the donor from
the Zufii Indians in 1893 and 1907. Presented by Stewart
Culin, Esq.
A wooden mask from the Boruca Indians, Costa Rica.
Presented by Comte Maurice de Périgny.
An ethnographical series from tribes of the Upper Amazon,
obtained at Iquitos, Peru. Presented by the heirs of Emilio
Kanthack, Esq.
A number of feather ornaments, collected in 1916 by the
donor, from tribes on the Bermejo River, Argentine Republic.
Presented by A. S. Hume, Esq., C.E. )
A basket for collecting shell-fish, a string child-carrier, and
a quartz arrowhead from the Coast of Patagonia. Presented by
Miss M. B. Dockray.
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CHRISTY COLLECTION.
During the year the Trustees have acquired by donation the
following objects, which have been transferred to the Trustees of
the British Museum : —
(1.) Ethnography of Asia.
Five stone implements from the Kachin district of the
Northern Shan States, Upper Burma. Presented by G. C. B.
Stirling, E'sq.
Two silver coins from Siam. Presented by Miss Cleverley.
A pottery water-vessel from the neighbourhood of Kula
Kangsar, Perak, Federated Malay States. Presented by Mrs.
C. T. Huttenbach.
Two bronze key-hangers with silk tassels and copper pendants,
from Korea. Presented by Sir Hercules Read, P.S.A.
(2.) Ethnography of Africa.
An iron spear-head from the Sudan. Presented by A. E.
Warden, Esq.
: : doll from el Duem, Egyptian Sudan. Presented by Mrs.
ock.
A doll from el Duem, Egyptian Sudan. Presented by C. F.
Lock, Esq.
Firesticks from the Mt. Sabinio area of Ruanda. Uganda
Protectorate. Presented by Capt. J. HE. Philipps, M.C.
Three copper bangles obtained at Nairobi, British East
Africa. Presented by R. Stanley Taylor, Esq.
A musical instrument called Limba, used by the Anyanja of
Nyasaland. Presented by H.-S. Stannus, Esq., M.D. (See
“Man,” 1920-20.)
Six carnelian beads found on the beach, Pondoland, South
Africa. Presented by J. Burtt-Davy, Esq., F.LS.
A wooden figurine from the Coast District, Belgian Congo.
Presented by Mrs. Wilson.
Grotesque pottery head from the Cameroons, W. Africa.
Presented by C. L. Fenton, Esq.
An ivory fetish from the Kwilu, an ivory comb from the
Lualaba, and a silver amulet from North Africa. Presented
by Louis C. G. Clarke, Esq.
(3.) Ethnography of Oceana.
Three spears and two spear-throwers from Western Australia.
Presented by Capt. Coghlan.
Two clubs and two boomerangs from Queensland, Australia.
Presented by Mrs. A. M. Pollock.
Two jade ceremonial axes from New Caledonia. Presented
by the Dowager Countess of Dunmore. .
Seven arrows from the New Hebrides. Presented by T.
Thompson, Esq.
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A human skull with modelled features from the Island of
Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides. Presented by Vice-Admaral
HE. F. A. Gaunt.
Three carved dancing clubs from the island of Buka, Sclomon
Islands. Presented by C. H. Reader, Esq.
(4.) Antiquities and Ethnography of America.
Three stone arrowheads found near Russell, Illinois. Pre-
sented by EL. Firth, Esq.
The head of a dancing staff, with totemic carving, from the
north-west coast, and a pottery vase from the Nasca Valley, Peru.
Presented by Louis C. G. Clarke, Esq.
_ Four pottery figurines in primitive style from the Panuco
Valley, Mexico. Presented by J. M. Mur, Esq.
A gold ornament in the form of a human head, found by the
late F. M. de Waldeck in the ruins of Palenque, Chiapas,
Mexico. Presented by C. B. O. Clarke, Esq.
A pottery vase with painted ornament from the highlands of
Ecuador. Presented by Miss Lilian E. Elliott.
Pottery figurine of a fish, found six feet below the surface. of
the ground on the island of La Tola, in the estuary of the San-
tiago River, Ecuador. Presented by H. S. Gordon, Esq.
A shrunk human head from the Jivaro Indians, Ecuador.
Presented by J. H. Spottiswoode, Esq.
A series of stone implements and fragments of early pottery
from Santa Catharina, Brazil. Presented by Dr. G. C. Bleyer.
Ancient pottery vase, found at a depth of 10 feet in the bank
of the Rio Colorado (Bermejo), 6 miles east of Tinogasta, Cata-
marca, Argentina. Presented by H. Teschmaker, Esq.-
Stone manija of a boleador from the Tuyu region of Cape San
Antonio, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Presented by Sir Herbert
Gibson.
A series of stone arrowheads and implements from middens
in the Chubut Valley, about five miles from the coast, Argentiria.
Presented by Canon P. E. Class.
Series of antiquities from the windward side of Montserrat,
West Indies. Presented by the Hon. Fred Driver.
In addition to the above donations, the Christy Trustees have
acquired by purchase a collection of pottery figurines, vase frag-
ments, whistles, stamps, and ornamented spindle-whorls, all of
pre-Inca date, and found within a comparatively small area in
the Province of Manabi, Ecuador.
Charles H. Read.
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DEPARTMENT OF Coins anp MEDALS.
I.—fegistration and Arrangement.
1. Greek Series.
Two thousand seven hundred and fifty-seven coins of various
parts of the Greek world, recently acquired, have been registered,
and two thousand seven hundred and twenty-nine incorporated,
while thirty-six coins hitherto classed as uncertain have been
identified and incorporated in the general series.
Eleven pieces have been added to the collection of forgeries.
Owing to these large additions, two cabinets have been’ inserted
in the series of European Greece and Asia.Minor, and the coins
have been re-spaced in the trays throughout the major part of the
collection. This has necessitated the renumbering of most of the
trays and the correction of the labels attached to the outside of
the cabinets, which task is now nearly completed.
The substitution of the new for the old pattern glass trays has
been continued.
The provenance of the electrum coinage assigned to Ionia in
the collection has been examined and, where ascertainable, noted
in the trays.
The treatment and cleaning of sick and dirty coins has been
undertaken with the assistance of the scientific adviser to the
Museum, and good results have been obtained.
* glline following collections have been examined and a selection
made for purchase: (a) Two dealers’ stocks of North African
coins; (b) a collection made in the Troad, another made in the
Black Sea area, and another made during the war in the Levant;
(c) various Sale Catalogues, British and Continental.
Many small parcels of coins submitted for identification by
private individuals, and in some cases by local Museums, have
been dealt with.
A Hand-lst has been compiled of all available Sale Cata-
logues, with notes as to their relative utility as material for study.
The bibliography has been kept up to date.
Several selections of casts have been made for foreign scholars.
2. Roman and Byzantine Series.
Five hundred and sixty coins have been registered and incor-
porated.
All issues of Hadrian and the pecan brass issues of the period
from Trajan Decius to Carus have been rearranged, while con-
siderable progress has been made with the classification of the
billon issues of the 3rd century after Christ, according to mints.
The arrangement of the issues of the period 395-476 a.p. has been
checked in the light of recent research.
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The weights of the coins of the early 3rd century after Christ
have been examined in order to determine the standards to which
they conform.
The specific gravity of a number of aurei and denarii has been
taken with a view to determining their metallic composition and
thereby deciding, in some cases, their genuineness.
The collection of casts of Imperial coins has been largely
increased, and the casts of medallions from Philip I. to the end
have been rearranged.
Several collections offered for presentation or purchase have
been examined and selections made.
The bibliography has been kept up to date.
3. British and Colonial Series.
One thousand six hundred and fifty-nine coins have been regis-
tered and incorporated. }
Various collections etc., offered for purchase or presentation
have been examined and a selection made from them, notably a
find of Anglo-Saxon coins of Hadgar, Eadward II. and Aethelred
II., a collection of 18th century tokens, a large collection mostly
composed of Kentish tokens of the 17th century, and a collection
of English gold coins of the first importance.
4. Modern and Medieval Series.
One thousand four hundred and eight coins have been regis-
tered and one thousand three hundred and twenty-five incor-
porated.
The Swiss coins and medals in the Townshend collection,
which up till now have been kept separate, have been incor-
porated into the general collection: this has necessitated the re-
arrangement of all the coins in the series and the insertion of
fresh heading-cards.
Various collections offered for purchase or presentation have
been examined, and a selection made, notably from a large
bequest and from a collection of money of necessity struck during
the great war in the Central Empires.
5. Oriental Series.
One thousand and twenty-five coins have been registered and
incorporated.
An unusually large number of collections has been offered for
presentation and purchase. These have been examined and selec-
tions made for the Museum.
PUBLICATIONS.
1. Catalogue of Greek Coins.
Coins of Arabia, Mesopotamia, §c., by G. F. Hill.
Fifty-five collotype plates and sheets B—L (80 pages) have
been passed for press and M and N sent for revise.
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Coins of Cyrenaica, by E. S. G. Robinson.
One hundred and twenty-four coins have been described. The
issues of the fourth century have been rearranged in a more
convenient order. The weights of all coins of the district avail-
able have been collected and digested into tables with a view
to their insertion in the Catalogue.
2. Catalogue of Roman Coins.
Coins of the Karly Roman Empire, by Harold Mattingly.
All the coins have been described and a considerable portion
of the introduction has been written, while the description of
the coins of Augustus and Tiberius and the earlier sections of
the introduction have been revised and thrown into final form.
3. Catalogue of Indian Coins.
Ancient Indian Coins, by J. Allan.
Ninty-four coins have been described.
4. Guides.
Guide to Exhibition of Historical Medals.
The text and introduction of the old Guide to English Medals
have been subjected to a first revision; descriptions of the addi-
tions to the English series and of the medals in Part II (general
series) have been written. An index to the inscriptions on medals
in Part I has been written and translations added.
5. Miscellaneous.
Grains and Grammes. A Table of Equivalents for the Use
of Numismatists, has been published.
Exhibition.
The New Exhibition Room has been fitted with cases. The
mounting of the coins and medals for exhibition has been begun,
eleven cases of medals illustrating British and European history
from the fifteenth century onwards having been mounted and
labelled, and the first draft of the guide to this section prepared.
Extension of the Medal Room.
The screen between the Medal Room and the North Corridor
has been removed, and the latter space is being fitted for inclusion
in the main room, thus increasing by nearly one-half the accom-
modation for the collections.
IIT.—Acgqvtsitions.
The total number of coins and medals added to the depart-
ment during the year 1920 was 7,919, of which 460 were of gold,
2,843 of silver, 4,138 of copper and 478 of other metals. The
average of the preceding ten years was 2,787.
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The following table shows the numbers of the new acquisitions
classitied according to the several series to which they belong :—
; ; | Other i
Class. Gold. Silver. | Bronze. Metals: Total.
Greek... mae ey nee 15 737 | 2,197 21 2,970
Roman 53 a5; S60 14 tel | 396 38 599
British and Colonial mes 255 514 pepencalel 118 1,598
Medieval and Modern ... 64 869 | 473 272 1,678
Oriental scr its nee 112 572 361 29 1,074
Total ois tad 460 2,843 4,138 478 7,919
Of the above 6,033 were presented, viz., 314 of gold, 1,905 of
silver, 3,384 of bronze, and 4380 of other metals.
The following is a list of benefactors to the Department of
Coins and Medals during the past year : —
H.M. the King; H.M. the King of Italy; the Lords Com-
missioners of the Admiralty ; the Adjutant-General to the Forces;
the Administration, of the Air Force; the Assistant-Director of
Statistics, Inland Revenue; the Deputy-Master of the Royal
Mint; the Director of Industries for the Central Provinces; the
Director of the Memorial Plaque Factory; the West African -
i Currency Board; the British Academy; the British School in
Egypt; the Birmingham Mint; the Camberwell Public Libraries;
the Gas Light and Coke Company; the Goldsmiths’ Company ;
Rey. Justin EH. Abbott; Mrs. Frederick Adam; W. Airy, Hsq.,
M.1.C.E.; 8. C. Atchley, Esq.; A. H. Baldwin, Esq.; Captain
J. W. Bailie; Master Reginald Bennett; Colonel J. Biddulph;
M. Adrien Blanchet, Membre de |’Institut; Edwin Bradnam,
Esq.; Prof. C. J. Brown; J. C. Brudenell-Bruce, Esq.; Hr. L. E.
Bruun; F. Buckler, Esq.; W. H. Buckler, Esq.; Sir John Buck-
nill, K.C.; W. E. M. Campbell, Esq., I.C.S.; Miss A. Cazenove ;
G. P. Churchill, Esq.; A. H. W. Cleave, Esq; Col. F. P.
Cockerell; Colin H. Dakers, Esq.; Col. G. A. Dale; M. A. Dieu-
donné; L. V. Keitley Duff, Esq.; F. R. Durham, Esq.; E. Earle,
Esq.; Robert J. Eidlitz, Esq.; Sir Arthur Evans, F.R.S.; Miss
Helen Farquhar; B. 8. Faudel-Philips, Esq.; W. Fensome, Esq. ;
Lionel L. Fletcher, Esq; L. F. Ford, Esq.; Albert Fox, Esq. ;
the late H. B. Earle Fox, Esq.; Rev. T. S. Frampton, M.A.,
B.C.L., F.S.A.; Heer M. Frankenhuis; Henry Garside, Esq. ;
Stephen Gaselee, Esq., C.B.E.; C. 8S. Gifford, Esq.; Col. F.
Guays; G. C. Haines, Esq.; the late D. T. Harris, Esq.; Mrs.
F. W. Hasluck; the late F. W. Hasluck, Esq.; Thomas Hedley,
Esq.; Richard Heming, Esq.; L. M. Hewlett, Esq.; Mrs. HE. L.
Hicks; George F. Hill, Esq.; J.-C. Hodgson, Esq.; A. W. W.
Horsbrugh, Esq.; Sir Henry H. Howorth, K.C.I.E.; Major E. G.
Hume; Major E. H. S. James; Gresham P. L. James, Esq. 3
Hubert S. Job, Esq., O.B.E.; Louis Keen, Esq. ; Be G. H.
Kempson, Esq.; Sir Frederic G. Kenyon, K.C.B.; Signor L.
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Laffranchi; H. A. Latham, Esq.; L. A. Lawrence, Hsq., F.S.A.;
M. H. Lee, Esq.; W. H. Lee-Warner, Esq.; Dr. Ritter A. von
Loehr; G. D. Lumb, Esq.; Lt.-Col. G. B. Croft Lyons, F.S.A.;
Mrs, Macdonald; Harold Mattingly, Esq.; Rev. F. L. Powys
Maurice; J. Mavrogordato, Esq.; E. G. Millar, Esq.; J. Grafton
Milne, Esq. ; Messrs. Samuel Montagu & Co.,; L. A. D. Montague,
Hsq.; Mons. J. de Morgan; Prof. R. Newstead, F.R.S.; Heatley
Noble, Hsq.; H. EH. Okeover, Esq.; Henry Oppenheimer, Esq.,
F.S.A.; Charles L. Pack, Esq.; Conte Nicold Papadopoli-Aldo-
brandini; Henry E. Parkes, Esq.; R. E. W. Partridge, Esq.;
W. W. Pearson, Esq.; Prof. Dr. Behrendt Pick; Ernest Rich-
mond, Esq.; C. A. Robertson, Esq.; Commander A. P. Robin-
son; EK. S. G. Robinson, Esq.; Maurice Rosenheim, Esq., F.S.A.;
J. Sanford Saltus, Esq.; Signor A. Segré; C. T. Seltman, Esq.;
E. H. Shine, Esq.; C. Davies Sherborn, Esq.; Master T. C.
Skeat; T. R. Skinner, Esq.; Messrs. Spink & Son; Robert Sut-
cliffe, Esq.; Rev. E. A. Sydenham; Sir Percy M. Sykes,
K.C.I.E., C.M.G.; Col. the Hon. Milo G. Talbot; C.B.; E. Tim-
perley, Esq.; Alderman W. Vernon, Esq., J.P.; Gordon Ward,
Ksq., M.D.; W. C. West, Esq.; Howland Wood, Esq.; C. L.
Woolley, Esq.; Aridrew W. Young, Esq.; Dr. W. Young, O©.1.E.
IV.—Remarkable Coins and Medals.
The year has been marked by a very large number of
‘ accessions, and by some important gifts. Amongst these special
attention must be called to the gift of a notable series of fine ©
gold English coins by the Goldsmiths’ Company; the bequests
by Mr. Earle Fox of his very useful collection of Greek coins
and by Mr. Hasluck of a selection from his remarkable collection
made in the Levant; the gift of the Crown of the Rose of Henry
VIII by Mr. Sanford Saltus; and the gift by Mr. Frampton of
his collection of Kentish Tokens.
Among the purchases the first place is taken by the silver
‘Marathon ’’ decadrachm of Athens described below.
1. Greek Series.
Further acquisitions have been made by purchase or donation
during the year from the collection of the late Sir Hermann
Weber. Among the most important are the following :—
Cume. <A silver Campanian didrachm of the early fifth
century B.c. Obv. Lion scalp between two boars’ heads. Fev.
shell.
Hyria. <A silver Campanian didrachm of 400 B.c. Obv.
Head of Pallas. Rev. man-headed bull and, in addition to the
ethnic, the letters ASKA between its legs.
Thurium. A silver Italic didrachm of the fourth century
B.c. Obv. head of Pallas. Rev. bull butting with the letters
THE above and two fishes in the exergue. Presented by Sir
Arthur Evans, F.R.S.
Two other similar didrachms with a torch and 7J, and a
dolphin and PHT, respectively, as reverse symbols and letters.
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Aenus. A silver Attic tetradrachm of the late fifth century
B.C. of fine style. Obv. head of Hermes. fev. goat, a pig’s head
as symbol.
Damastium and Pelagia. Two rare silver tetradrachms of
quasi-barbarous style of the fourth century B.c. Obv. head of
Apollo. ev. tripod and the ethnics of Damastium and Pelagia
respectively. Presented by Sir Arthur Evans, F.R.S.
Elis. <A very fine silver stater of the early fifth century B.c.
Obv. eagle devouring hare. ev. Nike running.
Cyzicus. An electrum hecte with the type of a crouching
lion and a hemihecte with the type of a winged monster, both
about 400 B.c.
Caria. A gold hecte of the dynast Pixodarus B.c. 340-334.
Obv. Head of Apollo. Kev. Zeus Labrandeus.
Tarsus. <A fine specimen of the rare issue of the satrap
Mazaeus, B.c. 350-3338. Obv. Baal-Tars seated. Rev. The walls
of Tarsus, above which lion killing bull, and the inscription
‘“Mazaeus ruler of the country beyond the Euphrates and
Cilicia ’’ in Aramaic, with mint letters differing from those
on the Museum specimen.
Syria. A tetradrachm of Antiochus 1X. with the reverse type
of the monument of Sandan. Presented by Miss Helen Farquhar.
The Greek series has received a most useful accession in the
collection bequeathed to it by the late Mr. H. B. Earle Fox.
Among many other coins, principally of European Greece, may
be noted a series of over four hundred Athenian coins of all
periods, mostly copper, but including a very fine silver tetra-
drachm of the sixth century B.c., and an abundant series of the
smaller silver denominations in which the Museum collection had
previously been relatively weak, as well as four hundred and
eighty varieties of the coinage of Corinth as a Roman colony.
Among other Greek coins acquired during the year may be
noted the following :—
Hatria. <A fine variety of the copper As of the early fourth
century B.c., with types of the facing head of Silenus and the
sleeping dog.
Velia. A silver Campanian didrachm of about 400 B.c. Obv.
Head of Pallas, the bowl of her helmet decorated with Scylla
(an ornament hitherto unknown at this mint). ev. Lion
bringing down stag.
Macedon. A silver stater of Philip II. of unusually fine style
and condition, with the star mintmark.
Olbia. An unpublished silver tetradrachm of the first century
A.D. of Inensimeus, King of Olbia. Obv. Diademed bust of
Inensimeus with his name and title. Rev. Head of Apollo with
the name of the moneyer Niceratus and symbol bow.
Crannon. An example of the very rare silver drachm of the
early fifth century B.c. Obv. Taurokathapsia. Rev. Horse with
trailing rein and trident.
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Chalcis. A silver: drachm of about 200 B.c. Obv. Female
head diademed (a portrait possibly of HEuboea, the Queen of
Antiochus III.). ev. Hagle with serpent. :
Athens. A silver decadrachm of the early fifth century B.c.
with the types of the head of Athena and an owl facing with open
wings. This coin, whose existence was hitherto unrecorded,
appears to be the seventh known example of this extremely rare
and important coinage which has been thought to have been
issued in commemoration of the victorious close of the Persian
War. The head is from a different die from any of the other
known specimens, and, while the style is perhaps not quite so
strong as that of the example already in the Museum (which
had been irretrievably damaged by a deep gash across the face),
it is in excellent condition.
Two silver tetradrachms, local imitations of Athenian types,
both found on the banks of the Oxus. One bears on the reverse
in Aramaic the name conventionally interpreted as Mazzus, with
the additional inscription SA, the other the apparently unique
symbol of a prow of a vessel.
Achaea. One hundred and two varieties, hitherto unrepre-
sented in the Museum, of the coinage of the Achaean League
from the collection of the late Major-General M’. G. Clerk.
Elis. A unique variety of the silver didrachm issue of the
later fourth century B.c., combining an obverse die with a head
of Zeus similar in style to that of the issues of the middle of
the century, with a reverse die on which appears a spearhead
symbol as well as a thunderbolt and the initials HP which are
characteristic of the following period.
Cnossus. An apparently unpublished silver drachm of the
second century B.c. with the types obv. Head of Zeus laureate,
rey. Labyrinth.
North-Western Asia Minor. Over a hundred coins, mostly
copper, of the Imperial period collected in this district and
containing many unpublished varieties and interesting pieces,
notably the second known example of the medallion struck at
Magnesia in Ionia in the reign of Antoninus Pius, of which the
reverse type is a copy of the statue of Themistocles which stood
in the market-place of that city.
Smyrna. The second example known of the silver drachm
issued during the second century B.c. with types obv. Head of
Apollo; rev. Homer seated, without magistrate’s name.
Lycia. A silver stater of a hitherto unknown Lycian dynast
Krfina about 4008.c. Obv. Head of Athena. Rev. Head of dynast
in Persian headdress with the name Krnna in Lycian characters.
Selge. A silver stater of the second half of the fourth century
B.c. with the types: Obv. Two wrestlers. Rev. Heracles, with
lionskin over his arm, wielding his club.
Cibyra in Cilicia. A copper coin of the second or first century
B.c. with the types of Zeus and Hermes. The very rare issues
of this city were hitherto unrepresented in the Museum.
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Cyprus. A gold hemiobol of the fourth century B.c. with the
types: Obv. horse’s head. Rev. ram’s head, a very rare piece
sometimes attributed to the Cyrenaica.
Arabia. A very interesting hoard of copper coins, of which
no other examples are known, of very barbarous style and types
ultimately derived from Athenian coins, obtained by the late
Sir Richard Burton in the land of Midian. Deposited on perma-
nent loan by the Camberwell Public Inbraries Committee.
Elymas. Fifty-nine coins of Orodes I., Phraates and Orodes
IT. in unusually fine condition. Presented by Monsieur J. de —
Morgan.
Characene. Five tetradrachms of base silver with the reverse
type of the seated Heracles and the name of Attambelus, but
bearing dates which show that they must be attributed to an
earlier and hitherto unrecorded king of that name.
Barce. A very rare silver tetradrachm of the Jate fifth century
with the types: Obv. head of Zeus Ammon and the magistrate’s
name PHAN. Rev. Silphium.
2. Roman and Byzantine Series.
A rare as of L. Atratinus with rev. ANTONIVS IMP.
Prow, r.
Three fine denarii of Augustus and a rare as of Vitellius, rev.
CERES AVG S.C. Presented by Sir Henry Howorth, K.C.1.E.
A rare denarius of Augustus with rev. M. DVRMIVS III
VIR. Man-faced bull crowned by Victory.
A dupondius of Nero, perhaps unique, with rev. S.C.
Triumphal Arch.
A series of rare denarii of Galba, Vitellius and the Civil
Wars.
An aureus of Vitellius of the mint of Lugdunum, with rev.
VICTORIA AVGVSTI and two others of the mint of Tarraco
with rev. CONSENSVS EXERCITVVM and SECVRITAS
IMP. GERMAN.
An aureus of Vespasian of unusual style, of the mint of
Tarraco, with rev. MARS VLTOR.
A billon coin of Regalian, with rev. ORIENS AVG. Sol
standing 1.; found at Carnuntum. Very rare and very fine for
the series.
An interesting series of more than a hundred and fifty silver
and brass coins of the Empire, including many of the mint of
London. Bequeathed by the late F. W. Hasluck, Esq.
A series of interesting bronze coins of the Byzantine Empire,
showing dates and mintmarks not represented in the Museum.
Presented by C. Davies Sherborn, Esq.
38. British and Colonial Series.
— (a) Coins.
Two gold Ancient British coins of types, Evans A. 2. and
C7. Presented by Sir Arthur Evans, F.R.S.
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A silver Ancient British coin (Evans G. 2) and a bronze coin
(vans H. 8) found at Great Chesterford. Presented by E. H.
Shine, Esq.
= unpublished penny of Offa and a very rare penny of Coen-
wulf.
A new variety of the penny of Wulfred, Archbishop of Canter-
bury, 805-832 a.p.
Fifty-eight Anglo-Saxon pennies of Hadgar, Eadweard IT.
and Aethelred II., found at Chester, including coins of mints and
moneyers unrepresented in the Museum. Presented by Prof. R.
Newstead, F.R.S.
Hight Anglo-Saxon coins of Eadgar, Eadweard II and
Aethelred IT. from the Chester find. Presented by Alderman W.
Vernon, Esq., J.P.
Seventeen Anglo-Saxon pennies of Eadgar, Eadweard II. and
Aethelred II. from the Chester find.
Five English pennies of Cnut and Siefried from the Cuerdale
hoard. Presented by His Majesty the King.
Two pennies of Stephen from a find made in 1881 in Park
Place, one of the Oxford mint and the other perhaps of
Rochester. Presented by Heatley Noble, Esq.
A long cross penny of Henry III. of the moneyer Nichol of
Canterbury. Presented by L. A. Lawrence, Esq., F.S.A.
A very rare variety of the half noble, a rare variety of the
groat, and a new variety of the London half groat of Edward TIT.
A very rare penny of London mint of Henry IV.
A very rare halfpenny of Edward IV. of Dublin.
A fine selection of 230 English gold coins from the Carlyon-
Britton Collection, remarkable alike for condition and rarity.
The period covered is from Edward III. to the Commonwealth
and many gaps are filled in the Museum series. Among the more
notable coins are a fine series of 13 nobles of Richard II., an
exceptionally rare noble of Henry II., a rare spur-ryal of James
I. and some very fine and rare Angilo-Gallic coins of the Black
Prince. Presented by the Goldsmiths’ Company.
The second known specimen of the ‘‘ Crown of the Rose ’”’ of
Henry VIII., one of the rarest and most valuable of English
coins. It was ordered to be issued on 22nd August, 1526, and
was current for barely two months, after which it was replaced
by the crown of the double rose, current at 5s.; the value 4s. 6d.
of the crown of the rose had been found inconvenient as it was
not an aliquot part of the pound. Presented by J. Sanford
Saltus, Esq.
A collection of English coins in gold, silver and copper, from
the earliest times to the nineteenth century. Bequeathed by the
late F. W. Hasluck, Esq.
A collection of 12 gold, 45 silver, 602 brass or copper coins,
and 4 lead English coins, including a collection, almost complete,
of the XVIIth and XVIIIth century tokens of the County of
Kent, the latter to be kept separate and known as the Frampton |
Collection of Kent Tokens. Presented by the Rev. T. S.
Frampton, M.A., B.C.L., F.S.A.
DEPARTMENT OF COINS AND MEDALS. 83
(6) Medals.
A fine engraved portrait on a silver plaque dated 1594, of
George, Harl of Cumberland, by Jacques de Gheyn. Presented
by H. EB. Okeover, Esq.
A rare silver engraved medal signed P.A. satirising Oliver
Cromwell and Masianello.
An unpublished silver medal of Monmouth’s rebellion signed
B.H. :
A bronze medal of Princess Louise, Marchioness of Lorne, by
Lady Feodora Gleichen.
One silver and two bronze Canadian centenary medals of
Laura Secord. Presented by Thomas Hedley, Esq.
A silver medal struck by the Gas Light and Coke Company
for war services of its employees. By HE. Carter Preston. Pre-
sented by the Gas Light and Coke Co.
A specimen in silver of the Serena Medal for Italian Studies,
by E. Carter Preston. Presented by the Council of the British
Academy.
4. Medieval and Modern Series.
(a) Coins.
Six deniers of Charles the Bald, Berengar, etc., from the
Cuerdale hoard, and an extensive series of gold and silver
Kuropean coins from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries,
including gold ducats of Hungary, Prussia and Brandenburg-
Bayreuth, and an extensive series of thalers, many of great his-
torical interest. Presented by His Majesty the King.
A large collection of medieval and sixteenth and seventeenth
century coins of the Low Countries, Germany, France, Italy,
especially those which circulated in the Levant, and of the
medieval coinage of the Latin Hast. This acquisition is parti-
cularly valuable to the Museum as it covers series not usually
collected, which rarely find their way to this country. Be-
queathed by the late F. W. Hasluck, Esq.
74 bronze coins of the Despots of Epirus. Presented by the
late F. W. Hasluck, Esq.
- 171 modern continental coins in silver, bronze and nickel in
continuation of previous gifts. Presented by Henry Garside,
Esq.
A very rare bronze coin of Stephen, Duke of Naples 758-759
A.D. Presented by C. Davies Sherborn, Esq.
98 specimens of the zinc and iron money of necessity of Ger-
many. Presented by Albert Fox, Esq.
49 iron or zinc German local coins of necessity. Presented
by Lows Keen, Esq.
A specimen of the U.S.A. half-dollar of 1920 commemorating
the Mayflower tercentenary. Presented by C. S. Gifford, Esq.
35 gold coins of France, the Low Countries, and Italy, of the
sixteenth century, of great rarity and in beautiful condition,
from the Carlyon-Britton Collection. Presented by the Gold-
smiths’ Company.
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(b) Medals.
A hitherto unrecorded Italian medal of the end of the
fifteenth century of Filippo Maria de’Rossi, Count of Berceto,
and his grandfather, Pier Maria, founder of the dynasty. Pre-
sented by Henry Oppenheimer, Esq., F.S.A.
An Itahan medal of Gabriel de’Gabrielli, Cardinal of S.
Prassede, about 1500 a.p.
A bronze medal of Alfonso V. of Aragon, by Paolo da Ragusa.
ieee by an unknown artist of Pietro Manna of Cremona,
€.
A bronze medal of Gonsalvo de Cordova by Annibal of Milan.
An unsigned medal of Girolamo Morcat (about 1525).
A rare bronze Italian medal of Christ of the XVIth century,
signed PHILIPI OPUS. Presented by E. G. Millar, Esq.
A bronze medal of Philip II. by Jacopo da Trezzo.
A lead medal of the artist Franz Floris.
A silver medal of Count Tilly, with his coat of arms, 1628.
A fine specimen in bronze gilt of the medal of Wolfgang
Jérger, 1518, after Hans Schwarz. Presented by Maurice Rosen-
hem, Esq., F.S.A.
A silver medal of Thomas Schweicker of Halle, the artist born
without hands, dated 1582. Presented by His Majesty the King.
78 German medals in bronze and iron relating to the War,
in continuation of previous gifts. Presented by Heer M.
Frankenhus.
A silver medal of the Danish numismatist L. E. Bruun, by
Lindahl. Presented by L. EK. Bruun, Esq.
A bronze medal of the International Commission for the
Schleswig Plebiscite. Presented by J. C. Brudenell-Bruce, Esq.
5. Oriental Series.
A very rare gold coin of the Sassanian Emperor Peroz. Pre-
sented by Colonel G. A. Dale.
An extensive series of Sassanian silver coins from the collection
of the late General Malcolm Clerk, including very rare coins of
Ardashir III., Kobad II., and Hormazd V.
Six silver coins of Arab governors of Persia. Presented by
Mons. J. de Morgan.
A dinar of Harun al-Rashid, 178 A.H., with the name of his
vizier Ja’afar. :
A dinar of the Buyid Azad al-Daula struck at Basra, 370 A.H.
Three dirhems of the Buyid Baha al-Daula struck at Suk
al-Ahwaz, 395, 398, 8399 A.H. Presented by Commander A. P.
Robinson. |
A dinar of the Great Seljuk Toghrul Beg, of Madinat al-
Salam (Baghdad), 455 A.H.
A dinar of the Great Seljuk Muhammad of Nishapur, 498
A.H. Presented by Major E. H. S. James.
A dinar of the Ilkhan of Persia, Abu Said of Madinat al
Salam (Baghdad), 717 A.H.
DEPARTMENT OF COINS AND MEDALS, 85
A series of 51 silver and copper coins of medieval Persia,
including the first known coin of Hasan b. Zaid, an Alid rebel
who founded a dynasty in Tabaristan, struck at Amul 254 A.H.
Presented by Sir Percy Molesworth Sykes, K.C.1.E., C.M.G.
A rare gold late Kushan coin with the name Lohavatya. Pre-
sented by Colonel J. Biddulph.
A very fine specimen of the horse-sacrifice type of Samudra-
gupta from the General Clerk Collection, and a specimen of his
Candragupta I. type from the Hoey Collection.
A gold coin of Candragupta II. of the Lion-slayer type, a
new variety of B.M.C. no. 118, having the King to left, and
the specimen of his Chattra type of Candragupta II. illustrated
mm BIC. Phi VIER 4.
The unique gold coin of Puragupta from the Hoey Collection
(B.M.C. Pl. X XT. 23).
Four gold tankas of Muhammad II. of Dehli, Dar al-Islam,
704 A.H., Dehli, 697, 698 and 713 A.H.
A rare gold tanka of Muhammad III. of Dehli (744 A.H.
type of B.M.C. 328) and another, an unpublished variety of
B.M.C. 384.
A fine collection of Moghul coins in gold and silver and
copper, including gold muhrs of Akbar, Patna 987; Lahore 47;
Jaunpur 980; gold muhrs of Jahangir, Lahore, 1016; Agra,
1021; gold muhrs of Shah Jahan, Agra 1038 and 1044; Surat
year 5 (Isfandarmuz) and 1044; Lahore 1050; Delhi 1047 and
1084; Daulatabad 1048; gold muhrs of Aurangzib, Jahangir-
nagar 1114; 47; Multan 1074; 7; Shahjahanabad 1101; 3 and
1102; 36; Hyderabad 1112; 45; a gold muhr of Jahandar,
Murshidabad 1124; 1; a gold muhr of Ahmad, Multan 1164; 4;
a gold muhr of Shah Jahan III., Indore, 1174;1; from the
collections of the late Sir Thomas Dennehy, the late Sir Denzil
Tbbetson and the late Mr. J. Doyle Smith.
A specimen of the rare gold coinage of the Sikh Ranjit Singh,
dated Samvat 1868.
Forty-one coins of the Turks struck in Egypt. Presented by
Henry Garside, Esq.
Gold coins of Nadir Shah of Persia, struck at Meshhed and
Peshawar 1055 A.H.
Four gold coins of Karim Khan of Persia, of Tabriz 1179 and
1184, Kazwin 1186 and Shiraz, 1184 A.H. and one of Fath
Ali-Shah, Erivan, 1185 A.H.
Five gold coins of Nasir al-Din Shah of Persia of the :nints
Tabriz, 1269, Teheran, 1271 (1 and + tuman), 1272 A.H. Pre-
sented by His Majesty the King.
Three gold coins of Nasir al-Din Shah of Persia of Tabriz
1280, Kazwin 1270 and 1271 A.H.
Two gold) Nepalese coins of Girvana Yuddha and one of
Queen Siddhi Laksmi Devi (1756). Presented by His Majesty
the King.
A gold muhr of Surendra Vikrama of Nepal (1791), quarter
muhr of Queen Samrajya Laksmi (1746) and a half muhr of
Rana Bahadur.
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Four muhrs of the Kings of Oudh, Nasir al-Din 1248; 5;
Amjad Ali 126x, and Wajid Ali 1264; 2; 1266; 3.
Two gold and silver coins of Assam, including a muhr of
Gaurinatha 1706, a quarter muhr of Laksmi Sinha and a unique
rupee of Candrakanta, 1742. Presented by A. W. W. Horsbrugh,
Esq.
a gold muhr of Laksmi Sinha of Assam of the year 1693.
Presented by C. A. Robertson, Esq.
A gold muhr of Gaurinatha Sinha of Assam, 1707.
A series of rare Afghan coins including gold mohurs of Ahmad
Shah Durrani of Dera 1166 and Shahjahanabad 1173, of Timur,
Peshawar 1205 and Herat 1195, of Mahmud, Ahmadshahi 1218
and Bhawalpur 1225 and Shuja al-Mulk, Kabul 1223; from the
collection of the late Sir Thomas Dennehy.
V1I.—Students and Visitors.
The number of visits made to the Department of Coins and
Medals during the year 1920 was 2,533. The average for the
last ten years before the closing of the Exhibition was 3,854.
The Exhibition has been closed since July, 1919, when it was
dismantled with a view to fitting the new Exhibition Room.
George F. Hill.
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British Musreum (Naturat History).
STATEMENT of Progress made in the ARRANGEMENT and
DEScRIPTION of the CoLLEcTIONS, and Account of OBJECTS
added to them, in the year 1920.
GENERAL PROGRESS.
Visitors, §c.
The total number of visitors to the Natural History Museum .
during 1920 was 527,701, as compared with 455,736 in 1919.
This is the largest total since 1909, when the number was 535,116.
The attendance on Sunday afternoons was 65,431, as against
56,673 in the previous year. The average daily attendance for
all open days was 1,450; for week-days, 1,482; and for Sunday
afternoons, 1,258. The number of persons who attended the
demonstrations of the official Guide during the year was 14,306.
The members of the International Council for the Exploration
of the Seas, which met in London in March, paid an official
visit to the Natural History Museum. )
The Egeg-collection in the Bird-room, which was closed during
the War, was re-opened to students under the usual conditions.
The Staff.
Dr. F. A. Bather, F.R.S., attended the Annual Conference
of the Museums Association held at Winchester in July as dele-
gate from the Natural History Museum, and Mr. M. A. C.
Hinton the Congress of the Royal Sanitary Institute held at
Birmingham during the same month. Sir Sidney Harmer was
appointed to represent the Museum on ‘the Executive Committee
of the Society for the Preservation of the Wild Fauna of the
Empire, and Mr. Percy R. Lowe on a Home Office Advisory
Committee in connection with the administration of the Wild
Birds Protection Acts. Permission was given to Mr. J. Rams-
bottom to serve on a Committee appointed by the Army Council
to advise as to processes to improve the durability of Tentage;
to Mr. A. S. Hirst to accept the post of Honorary Acarologist
to the London School of Tropical Medicine; and to Dr. L. J.
Spencer and Mr. W. Campbell Smith to act as Examiners in
Mineralogy for the Natural Sciences Tripos at Cambridge in 1921.
Swiney Lectures.
Dr. J. D. Falconer, Swiney Lecturer for 1920, gave a course
of lectures in the Lecture Theatre of the Imperial College of
Science on ‘‘ The Modelling of the Earth’s Crust.’’ The total
attendance for the course was 2,556, or, on an average, 213
persons per lecture.
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The Trustees have accepted Dr. Falconer’s suggestion to take
‘The Wonders of Geology ’’ as the subject of his next course
of lectures under this foundation to be given in November and
December, 1921.
Selous Memorial.
A memorial bust to the late Captain F. C. Selous, D.S.O.,
was presented to the Trustees by the Selous Memorial Committee
and placed on the west side of the wall facing the Central
Staircase. The memorial was unveiled by Mr. E. N. Buxton,
Vice-Chairman of the Memorial Committee, on June 10th,
Viscount Grey of Fallodon receiving it on behalf of the Trustees.
It is proposed to exhibit the greater part of the Selous Collection
of Big Game Trophies, presented to the Trustees by Mrs. Selous,
-in the corridors surrounding the Central Hall on the first floor.
A catalogue of the collection’ is in preparation by Mr. Guy
Dollman.
New Spirit Building.
Provision was made in the Office of Works Estimates for
1920-21 for a commencement of the work on a new building to
form part of the western extension of the main building for the
storage of specimens in spirit. Such a building has long been
urgently necessary owing to the congestion and consequent
reduced efficiency and increased risk of fire in the existing spirit
building. Plans were prepared and a little preliminary work
was done on the site during the year.
Sir John Murray’s Oceanographical Collection.
Lady Murray, widow of the late Sir John Murray, K.C.B.,
having approached the Trustees with a view to the possible
_ transfer to the Museum of her late husband’s important Oceano-
graphical collection, it was decided to accept the collection of
Marine Deposits and Animals with the corresponding part of the ©
Library, and portions of the collection of Microscopical Prepara-
tions and of the contents of the Chemical Laboratory.
Some difficulty arose with regard to the housing of the
collection, as there was no accommodation available in the
Museum, but it was finally arranged that the Trustees should
have the use for the purpose of one of the temporary buildings
erected as offices during the War on Museum ground at the
back of the main building.
Whaling and Sealing in Southern Waters.
Information was received from the Colonial Office that a
regulation had been issued making the period from 1st June to
15th September inclusive in each year, commencing in the season
1919-20, a close time for whaling in South Georgia. This is a
matter for unmixed satisfaction as a definite step towards the
protection of whales, since whaling reports and statistics give
serious grounds for the belief that the supply of whales has
fallen off during recent years. .
BRITISH MUSEUM (NATURAL HISTORY). 89
Various reports and statistics were received through the High
Commissioner for the Union of South Africa relating to the
South African Whaling Industry for the season 1918. The total
number of whales captured showed a considerable reduction on
the number obtained in 1917. As compared with the figures
for South Georgia and-the South Shetlands, the most striking
feature was the greater predominance of the Sperm Whale and
the Sei Whale. The Humpback formed a very inappreciable
proportion of the catch, as contrasted with the large numbers of
this animal in earlier years. The Fin Whale and the Blue
Whale together amounted to more than sixty per cent. of the
total catch.
A satisfactory report was received from the Colonial Office
with regard to sealing in South Georgia. It stated that no
young seals or females were taken during the 1918 season; that
arrangements were being made for obtaining, in future, reports
and records of the number of seals caught during each month, of
the season, and that no licences had been issued in the 1919
season for that part of the coast set aside as a seal reserve.
Numerous other reports bearing on these subjects were referred
by the Colonial Office to the Museum during the year, anda
considerable volume of information and advice was supplied for
oe benefit of the authorities in the Falkland Islands and else-
where.
Other Investigations.
Records continued to be kept of Whales and Dolphins
stranded on the British Coasts, and a leaflet was prepared for
the Board of Trade to aid in the recognition of those species of
Cetacea which come under the designation of “‘ fishes royal,”’
the ownership of which is the subject of special legislation in
Scotland. :
Two conferences were held, under the chairmanship of the
Director, with representatives of the Plumage Trade and members
of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, respectively,
to consider the actual state of affairs in regard to Egret farming
in Sind and the collection of moulted Egret feathers in Vene-
zuela. The assistance of the Museum was given to the Board of
Trade on several occasions during the discussion of the Plumage
Bill (1920) in Parliament.
Information was given to the Advisory Committee for Aero-
nautics, National Physical Laboratory, in connection with the
flight of birds.
Mr. C. Tate Regan, F.R.S., prepared a report for the
Colonial Office on the Fisheries of the Colonies. He also attended
a conference at the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries to
consider the development of the Fisheries of Malta.
By recent legislation the use of cocaine has been prohibited,
under stringent penalties, except by certain privileged classes
such as medical practitioners and pharmacists, and by others
receiving special permits. The Museum was consulted by the
Home Office with regard to the conditions under which excep-
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tions might be made, in view of the fact that this substance
is a reagent which had been in common use for the preserva-
tion of many animals which require special treatment.
Asa result of an investigation undertaken in July at the
request of the Royal Air Force at Halton, Buckinghamshire,
Major EK. H. Austen, D.S.O., of the Department of Entomology,
found Anopheles maculipennis (a well-known malaria-carrying
mosquito) breeding extensively in the canal, and to a less extent
in Halton reservoir, and advised the medical authorities as to
the necessary preventive measures.
Reports were received from Mr. L. R. Crawshay, who is con-
ducting investigations in connection with the sponge fishery of
the Bahama Islands, and the Colonial Office were informed that
in the opinion of the Trustees a good beginning had been made
with the work.
Enquiries were received from the Colonial Office with regard
to fish-poisoning in the West Indies. The Museum supported the
proposal for an investigation, and suggested that it should not be
limited to a single locality, but should be one in which the whole
of the West Indies could share and that it might profitably be
undertaken in concert with the Ministry of Agriculture and
Fisheries.
Dinosaurian Fossils in Tanganyika Territory.
In view of the importance of the deposits containing Dino-
saurian fossils in Tanganyika Territory, partially explored by
German geologists before the War, the Trustees considered the
advisability of sending out an expert to continue the excavations
for the benefit of the Museum. As a preliminary, Dr. E. O.
Teale, Government Geologist; Tanganyika Territory, undertook
to examine the fossils left behind by the Germans; to try to
arrange for the packing of all that were worth sending to the
Museum; and to report on the present state of the excavations,
with suggestions as to the best method of following up the work.
Marine Fauna of South Africa.
The Trustees accepted an invitation to co-operate in a survey
of the marine fauna of South Africa which is being undertaken
by the Union Government, on the understanding that the
Museum should keep the first set of specimens collected, in return
for services rendered in getting the collections worked out and in
distributing the material to specialists. :
Bequests.
An important collection of New Zealand insects was be-
queathed to the Museum by the late Major Thomas Broun, of
Auckland, but it is being allowed to remain in the Dominion for
a period in order to enable New Zealand entomologists to refer to
it and to determine their specimens as far as possible.
The late Mrs. Emily Owen has bequeathed to the Museum a
marble bust, by Wagmiiller, of her father-in-law, the late Sir
Richard Owen, K.C.B., who was Superintendent of the Natural
History Departments of the British Museum from 1856 to 1884.
BRITISH MUSEUM (NATURAL HISTORY). 91
The mounted specimens presented to the Museum during the
year by the Trustees of the Rowland Ward Bequest comprised
27 mammals and birds.
Presents.
An offer was accepted from H.R.H. the Prince of Wales to
present to the Museum the skeleton of an Arab stallion,
““ Dwarka,’’ bred in the Arabian Desert by the Anazeh tribe
and described as the most perfect Arab ever seen.
Mr. E. Dukinfield Jones removed all restrictions and condi-
tions from the deed of gift, made during the previous year, of
his collection of 20,000 Brazilian Lepidoptera, which thus became
the absolute property of the Trustees.
Among other gifts of special importance may be mentioned
those from :—
Mr. G. E. Bryant—A collection of 21,000 specimens of
Coleoptera from the East Indies, Australia and South
America, in addition to more than 16,000 specimens
which he had presentéd during the previous year.
Lt.-Col. C. G. Nurse—A named collection of 9,400 speci-
mens of Indian Hymenoptera Aculeata.
Sir George F. Hampson, Bart.—126 natural history pub-
lications and his collection of separata, &c., with notes.
Mr. G. L. Bates—A collection of 590 birds made by him
in Cameroon.
Capt. G. Blaine—An important collection of African Big
Game, from ‘Angola.
H.R.H. Prince Abhakara of Chumpon—A collection of
fishes, cephalopods, crustaceans, arachnids and insects
from Siam, with a large series of water-colour drawings
of Siamese fishes.
Mr. M. Maxwell—The skull of a Javan Rhinoceros and
two frontlets, with horns, of the Javan Banteng.
Lord Brabourne—A collection of birds made near Lima,
Peru, by the late Lord Brabourne.
Messrs. Johan Rasmussen og Alex. Lange of Sandefjord,
Norway—Certain very interesting whale specimens from
South Georgia.
The Government of the Union of South Africa—A nearly
complete skeleton of a Bryde’s Rorqual.
Prof. P. S. Pavlovic, Director of the Natural History
Museum, Belgrade—A valuable collection of about
2,500 land and freshwater shells from Serbia.
Eepedition.
A collecting expedition to the West Coast of Africa, made by
Mr. Willoughby P. Lowe, resulted in the acquisition for the
Museum of 110 mammals (including two new species) and 503
birds (including five new species).
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Purchases.
The Trustees authorised) the purchase of Mrs. Elizabeth
Gray’s collection of some 38,000 Ordovician and Silurian fossils,
to be paid for in instalments spread over three or four years.
Other important purchases made during the year include 248
birds from Cameroon; 601 birds from the United States of
America; 395 birds from the Canary Islands; the Penard Collec-
tion (consisting of 706 slides) of Rhizopoda and Infusoria; 5,000
specimens of Rhynchota and Coleoptera, including 307. types,
being the tenth and final instalment of the Distant collection
of insects; a series of about 1,000 fossil sponges, chiefly from
the Cretaceous and Jurassic of Hanover; 400 fossil corals and
molluscs from the Cretaceous of Gosau, Austria; fossil cephalo-
pods and sponges from the Trias of Timor; selections from the
fossils collected round Peterborough by the late Mr. A. N. Leeds;
the meteoric stone which fell near Appley Bridge, Wigan, on
13th October, 1914, being the second largest on record that has
fallen in Great Britain; a collection of fragments of 74 meteor-
ites; plants from China, Tasmania, and North America; a very
fine copy of ‘‘ Ortus Sanitatis,’? by Joannes de Cuba,-1491, the
excessively rare first dated edition of the greatest medizval
cyclopedia of Natural History.
Exchanges were made with, and gifts of duplicate specimens
made to, various institutions and persons.
The skeleton of the famous racehorse ‘‘ Eclipse ’’ was received
from the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons on ‘‘ permanent
loan ’’ for exhibition in the Museum.
The Museum took charge, on behalf of the Colonial Office, of
a collection of negatives of photographs of Nigerian Natives
made by Mr. N. W. Thomas.
Publications.
The following new works on Natural History were published
during the year: —
British Antarctic (‘‘ Terra Nova’’) Expedition, 1910.
Natural History Report.
Zoology. Vol. II.
No. 9. Mollusca. Pt. III. Eupteropoda (Ptero-
poda .Thecosomata) and Pterota (Pteropoda
Gymnosomata). By Anne L. Massy. Pp. 203-
232: 9 text-figures. 4to. 7s. 6d.
No. 10. Mollusca. Pt. I[V.—Anatomy of Pelecy-
poda. By R. H. Burne, M.A. Pp. 233-256: 4
plates. 4to. 8s. 6d.
Loology. Vol. IV. ‘J
No. 8. Echinoderma (Part II.) and Enteropneusta,
Larvae of Echinoderma and Enteropneusta. By
H...W. MacBride, .D:Se.; LL.D.,,.. 2 ase
Pp. 83-94: 2 plates (with explanations). 4to.
Ts. 6d.
BRITISH MUSEUM (NATURAL HISTORY). 93
Monograph of the Lacertidae By G. A. Boulenger,
Pe Ses RASS Velie ls Mepilses- 352) | With
Systematic Index]. 8vo. £2.
Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British
_ Museum. By Sir George F? Hampson, Bart. :—
Supplement. Vol. IL. Catalogue of the Lithosiadae
(Arctianae) and Phalaenoididae. Pp. xxili., 619:
112 woodcuts. [With Systematic and Alphabetical
Indexes.| 8vo. £1 10s.
Atlas of 30 Coloured Plates (xlii.-lxxi.). 8vo.
; £1 123, 6d.
Handbook of British Mosquitoes. By W. D. Lang, M.A.,
Se.D. Pp. vil., 125: 182 text-figures and 5 plates.
[With List of Plates, Index of Trivial Names, and List
of Figures.] Roy. 8vo. £1.
Flora of Jamaica, containing descriptions of the Flower-
ing Plants known from the Island. By William Faw-
cett, B.Sc., F.L.S., &c., and A. B. Rendle, M.A., D.Sc.,
PRIS. F.L.S., &e. |
Vol. IV. Dicotyledons. Families Leguminosae to
Callitrichaceae. Pp. xv., 369: 114 text-figures.
[With List of Works referred to, Conspectus of
Families, Key to Families, and Index.] 8vo.
£1 5s.
Summary Guide to the Exhibition Galleries of the British
Museum (Natural History). [By C. Tate Regan, M.A.,
F.R.S.] Pp. 16: 3 plans and view of the facade. 8vo.
3d.
Economic Series : —
No. 14.—The House Fly. Its Life-history and Practical
Measures for its Suppression. By Major H. E. Austen,
D.S.0. Pp. 52: 11 plates and text-figures. 8vo.
ls. 6d.
No. 11.—Furniture Beetles. Their Life-history and
how to check or prevent the damage caused by the
worm. By C. J. Gahan, D.Se. Pp. 28: 1 plate,
5 text-figures. 8vo. 6d.
New editions were issued of the following pamphlets : —
Instructions for Collectors :—
‘No. 10.—Plants. Fifth Edition. Pp. 10: 3 text-figures.
8vo. 6d.
Economic Series : —
No. 1.—The House Fly as a Danger to Health. Its
Life-history, and how to deal with it. By Major
E. E. Austen, D.S.O. Third Edition. Pp. 20:
3 plates (containing 6 figures), and 5 figures in text.
8vo. 3d.
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No. 3.—Fleas as a Menace to Man and Domestic
Animals. Their Life-history, Habits and Control.
By James Waterston, B.D., B.Sc. Second Edition.
Pp. 21: 1 plate, 6 text figures. 8vo. 4d.
No. 4.—Mosquitoes and their Relation to Disease.
Their Life-history, Habits and Control. By F. W.
Edwards, B.A. Second Edition. Pp. 20: 6 text-
figures. 8vo. 4d.
No. 6.—Species of Arachnida and Myriopoda (Scor-
pions, Spiders, Mites, Ticks and Centipedes) in-
jurious to Man. By S. Hirst. Second Edition.
Pp. 60: 26 text-figures. 3 plates. 8vo. Is.
No. 8.—Rats and Mice as Enemiés of Mankind. By
M. A. C. Hinton. Second Edition. Pp. 63: 2
plates and 6 text-figures. 8vo. Is.
The undermentioned works were in preparation during the
year :—
‘“Terra Nova’’ Antarctic Report. Further sections, in-
cluding Tanaidacea and Isopoda, by W. M. Tattersall,
D.Se.; Parasitic Protozoa, by H. M. Woodcock, D.Sce.,
and Miss Olive Lodge; Collembola, by Prof. G. H.
Carpenter; Mallophaga, by James Waterston, B.D.,
B.Sc.; Fish Remains from the upper Old Red Sand-
stone of Granite Harbour, Antarctica, by A. Smith
Woodward, LU.D., F.R.S.
Handbook of British Lichens, by Miss A. L. Smith.
Catalogue of Fossil Bryozoa:—The Cretaceous Bryozoa.
Vol. III., by W. D. Lang, M.A., Se.D.
GENERAL LIBRARY.
The additions to the General Library during the past year
have been :—
By purchase os. e200, MelUMes.
By transference from
other Departments 53 maps.
By donation... ... 640 volumes, 3 maps, and 106 photo-
graphs.
Total... i. 909 56 106
All the volumes and maps have been catalogued, press-marked
and put in their places, while 1,484 volumes have been bound in
464, and 415 maps mounted.
The extent of the collection on the 3lst December was 48,667
volumes, 6,004 maps, and 1,211 photographs (not including those
in the Owen Collection of Drawings, &c.).
The accessions to the Departmental Libraries have also been
catalogued as they came in, and duplicate transcripts of the titles
have been returned with the books.
Altogether 2,806. title-slips have been written, 90 rewritten,
and 3,208 revised (independently of those prepared for printing).
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There are now, on a rough estimate, 106,945: volumes (exclu-
sive of continuations and minor separata) and 6,339 maps in the
whole building.
The number of visits paid to the General Library during the
year by Students and others (irrespective of the Staff and persons
to whom the use of a key is granted) was 1,585.
Donations have been received from a great number of
Museums, Academies and other corporate bodies, as well as from
personal donors.
The printing of the Supplement to the Library Catalogue has
been continued, title-slips to the middle of ‘‘GUEN ’’ have been
. set up in type, and printed off as far as ‘‘ GREG,” and the first
four sheets of the ‘‘ Addenda and Corrigenda’’ have also been
printed off.
INDEX TO THE GENERA’ AND SPECIES OF ANIMALS.
During 1920 work has proceeded satisfactorily, and upwards
of 25,000 references have been added to the manuscript.
After thirty years’ work every book referring to Zoology (pub-
lished before 1851) in the libraries of the British Museum
(Natural History), of the British Museum and all the scientific
societies of London, Oxford, Cambridge, Manchester, &., have
been collated and indexed. There remain some 1,000 volumes of
serials yet to be dealt with, and about 150 volumes not in Eng-
land, which have been referred to by systematists.
A start has already been made towards the preparation for
press by lexicographically sorting the slips preparatory to editing,
and it is hoped that the ‘‘ Introduction,’’ ‘‘ Bibliography,’’ and
letter ‘‘ A ’’ will be ready for the printer by July, 1921.
Valuable help has been afforded Mr. Sherborn by correspon-
dents, in Ziirich, Berlin, Vienna, Dijon, Poictiers, New York,
Washington, &c., who not only carried out the work personally,
but also in such form as to be of permanent value to the libraries
under the charge of the Trustees..
InpEx Museum anp MorpnHo.uoscicaL COLLECTIONS.
All the dissections exhibited in the Index Museum have been
examined during the course of the year, and where necessary have
been cleaned, re-spirited or re-sealed.
A new case has been placed on exhibition in the Hall, to
illustrate the connection between Tsetse-Flies and Sleeping Sick-
ness. It contains a greatly enlarged model (the work of Mr.
A. J. Engel Terzi) of the tsetse-fly, Glossina palpalzs, the chief
transmitter of this disease, together with actual specimens. En-
larged coloured drawings showing the fly in its characteristic
resting position, its attitude while sucking blood, and the arma-
ture of the piercing proboscis as compared with other flies, are
also exhibited. The case further includes models of the infective
parasite Trypanosoma gambiense, as well as drawings of Try-
panosomes from the saliva and gut of the transmitting tsetse-fly.
A series of photographs of ‘‘ habitats’? of Glossina palpalis, and
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a map of distribution of the species are also shown. The work in
connection with this case was carried out with the help of Major
HK. EK. Austen, D.S.O. (Hntomological Department).
The original models illustrating the life-history of the
malarial parasite have been replaced by a better series, which
was exhibited at the Ghent Exhibition in 19138. Opportunity
was taken at the same time to change the old and faded labels
for new ones.
Captain Sir David Wilson-Barker’s observations on the flight
of the Albatros have been illustrated by a chart (including
detailed and explanatory labelling) which has been framed and
placed on exhibition in Bay ITI.
The labels of the Schistosomiasis (Bilharziasis) exhibit in the
Hall have been revised, and a drawing has been inserted in the
series to replace a vague and over-exposed photograph.
The Amphioxus case in Bay V. has also been thoroughly over-
hauled and renovated.
The preparation of an Index-series, to serve as a general intro-
duction to the contents of the Museum, has occupied much time.
The first case, containing part of this series, should soon be ready
to be placed in the Central Hall.
Sidney fF. Harmer,
Director.
British Museum (Natural History),
Ist April, 1921.
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DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY.
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Arrangement and Conservation.
MaMMaLta.
Mammal Galleries.
Considerable progress has been made with the Exhibition of
the collection of Big Game Trophies shot by the late Captain
I’. C. Selous, D.S.O., and presented by Mrs. Selous in 1919.
More than half the Collection has been placed in position on the
Walls of the South, East, and West Corridors. Wooden screens:
have been prepared for fixing into the windows of the East
Corridor; as soon as these screens are in position the remainder
of the Collection will be exhibited on them. The finest of the
Kudu heads has been placed over the Selous Memorial, and
another im a corresponding position on the other side of the
Wall. The heads of the two largest Moose in the Collection
are exhibited over the arches under the main staircase. The
whole Collection has been registered and labelled and the pre-
paration of special exhibition labels is now being undertaken. A
Catalogue of this Collection has been prepared and will shortly
be ready for press.
The central case in the Upper Mammal Gallery has been re-
painted and the specimens rearranged. Other than this no
special alterations in the arrangement of the Mammal Galleries
have been made, and work has been confined in the main to the
installation of new specimens and the rewriting and printing of
such labels as required modification in order to bring them up
to date. The Sunscreens of the windows in the West Corridor
have been renewed, the screens being placed inside the windows,
instead of outside as formerly.
The additions to the exhibited series in the Mammal Galleries
and Corridors include many specimens presented by the Rowland
Ward Trustees, among them:—In the Primates: 2 Elliot's
Colobus Monkeys (Colobus ellioti), a Black Guereza (Colobus
satanas), 2 Dent’s Guenons (Cercopithecus denti), a Stuhlmann’s
Guenon (Cercopithecus leucampyx stuhlmanni), and an Ituri
Mangabey (Cercocebus albigena ituricus). In the Carnivora: a
Caracal (felis caracal), an Indian Wild Dog (Cuon dukhunensis),
a Maned Wolf (Chrysocyon jubatus), and a Cape Hunting Dog
(Lycaon pictus). In the Rodentia: a West African Scaly-tail
(Anomalurus erythronotus), and an Ituri Sealy-tail (Anomaluras
pusillus). In the Ungulata: 2 Mongalla Gazelles (Gazélla
albonotata), 2 Angolan Springbucks (Antidorcas marsupialis
_ centralis), a Sudan Bushbuck (Tragelaphus scriptus bor), an
Angolan Duiker (Cephalophus grimmi splendidulus), a young
Yellow-backed Dutker (Cephalophus sylvicultriz), a Mrs. Gray’s
Waterbuck (Kobus maria), and an Angolan Gemsbuck (Oryz
gazella). In the Edentata: A Tamandua Anteater (Tamandua
tetradactyla), a Giant Pangolin (Manis gigas), and a Pigmy
Armadillo (Chlamyphorus truncatus). In the Marsupialia: an
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' Australian Opossum (Trichosurus vulpecula), a Philander Opos-
sum (Philander lanigera cicur), a Tree Kangaroo (Dendrolagus
lumholter), w Black-gloved Wallaby (Macropus irma), and a
Rabbit-eared Bandicoot (Thalacomys lagotis). |
Other additions to the Mammal Galleries include a fine male
specimen of Varian’s Sable Antelope (Hippotragus niger
variant), presented by Captain H. F. Varian; a mounted speci-
men of the Angolan Mountain Zebra (Equus zebra hartmanne),
presented by Captain Gilbert Blaine; a mounted head of a Shou
(Cervus affinis), presented by Mrs. Claude White; a mounted
Specimen of a young Harp Seal (Phoca grenlandica), presented
by Miss E. M. Balston; 22 mounted heads and horns, including
3 heads of the Astor Markhor (Capra falconeri falconeri), and a
Kashmir Barasingha (Cervus cashmiriensis), shot by the late Mr.
Martyn Kennard and presented by the Right Hon. Cora
Countess of Strafford; the skull of a Javan Rhinoceros
(Khinoceros sondaicus) with horn of record length, 2
pairs of horns of the Javan Banting (Bibos banteng),
and antlers of a Sangnai (Iucervus eldi), presented by M.
Maxwell, Esq.; a mounted head of a Mongalla Gazelle (Gazella
albonotata), presented by P. Haig Thomas, Esq.; 5 pairs of horns,
including those of a Wild Goat (Capra hircus egagrus), pre-
sented by Brigadier-General J. Marriott, C.B.E., M.V.O.,
D.S.0.; a mounted specimen of a young East African Klip-
springer (Oreotragus oreotragus aureus), presented by Lieut.
Commander J. de B. Jessop, D.8.0., R.N.; the skull of an
Indian Buffalo (Bubalus bubalis macroceros) with horns of nearly
record length, shot and bequeathed by the iate Mr. Arthur
Forbes, 1.C.S., C.S.1.; 17 mounted specimens, heads, and horns,
including a mounted Red Sea Ibex (Capra nubiana nubiana),
presented by His Highness Prince Demidoff; 8 skulls with horns
of the Barren Ground Caribou (Rangifer tarandus arcticus),
presented by the Sabellum Trading Company, Limited; 12
mounted heads of African Antelopes, including 2 Red-fronted
Gazelles (Gazella rufifrons levipes) and 2 Sudan Reedbucks (Re-
dunca redunca cottoni), presented by C. E. Russell, Esq., and a
Hyrax (Procavia goslingi) presented by A. W. Cardinal, Esq.
An interesting donation, in the form of 2 old-fashioned
Sporting Rifles (8 and 12 bore), was received from Brigadier-
General J. Marriott, C.B.E., M.V.O., D.S.O.
One of the most important purchases made during the year
was an exceptionally large and well-preserved tusk of a Mammoth
(Elephas primigenius) from Grand Liakhovsky, New Siberian
Islands, collected in 1907-08 by the Count Alexander Steinbok-
Ferror Geographical Expedition.
Study series—The usual work of labelling, registering, and ©
incorporating the mammals added to the collection, and of skull
cleaning has been continued.
The collection of American Muride and a large part of the
skull collection have been re-arranged.
The Department is again indebted to volunteer helpers for
much valuable asistance. The following should be especially
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mentioned in this connection :-—Mr. R. C. Wroughton, Mr. T. B.
Fry, Captain P. S. Kershaw, Mr. Hugh Smith, Miss W. M.
Davidson, and Miss A. Grasemann.
Mr. R. C. Wroughton, with the assistance of Mr. T. B. Fry,
Miss W. M. Davidson and Miss A. Grasemann, has worked out
the various collections received from the Bombay Natural History
Society’s Mammal Survey of India and has published reports on
them. Mr. Wroughton, with the same help, has again been
engaged upon the preparation, of a \list of the types in the
collection. This list already affords most valuable assistance
in carrying on the work of the department; and it has now been
completed for the orders Primates and Rodents.
The arrangement of the skeleton collection has made progress,
but more cabinets are much needed. A number of Cetacean
skeletons have been added, and numerous casts of heads, blow-
holes and valves, and of paddles of various Cetaceans have been
made.
DOMESTICATED ANIMALS.
The most noteworthy addition to the Collection of Domesti-
‘cated Animals is the skeleton of the famous Thoroughbred
Stallion ‘‘ Kclipse,’’ which the Trustees have accepted on perma-
nent loan from the Royal Cellege of Veterinary Surgeons,
London. Eclipse was bred by the Duke of Cumberland in 1764
and died in 1789. He was never beaten, and during his two
years’ turf career was the winner of 18 races.
The additions by presentation to the series of Domesticated
Animals include the following:—A mounted specimen of a
“German: breed of Pointer, presented by Captain J. Hamilton
Leigh; a Tibetan Spaniel, presented by Mrs. Wilmot Corfield ;
a Toy Trawler Spaniel, presented by Captain A. W. F. Fuller;
a Pekinese Spaniel, presented by Mrs. L. Raymond Mallock; a
Fancy Rat, presented by Ralph Blake, Esq.; 3 Fancy Rats,
presented by H. C. Brooke, Esq.; a Belgian Bearded Bantam
Hen, presented by Richard Terrot, Esq.; a Racing Pigeon
(holder of the World’s record for speed), presented by Dr. M. E.
‘Tresidder; and a Linnet-Canary hybrid, presented by Messrs.
Martin and Archer.
AVES.
In the Exhibition Gallery a start has been made in the re-
arrangement and remounting of the various families of Passerine
Birds. The following groups have been recently completed :—
Pyenonotidae, Timeliidae, Troglodytidae, Cinclidae, Mimidae
- and Turdidae.
During the year the mounted specimens in every wall-case
have been thoroughly cleaned and overhauled, as also the nesting
group series. }
In the Bird Room, the Paridae, Sittidae, Certhiidae, Regu-
lidae, Motacillidae, Alaudidae, Podicipidae, and Limicolae,
besides various independent genera, have been revised and re-
arranged according to the latest views of systematists. 3
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Owing to the war a large number of collections had accumu-
lated since 1914. Most of these have now been determined,
registered and incorporated. The egg-collection, which was
closed during the war by order of the Trustees, has now been re-
opened to students.
Card-indexes of the Ornithological literature of geographical
units, of authors, of groups, and of species in the collection
have been initiated. Cabinets are still urgently required for
the very necessary work of expansion of the collection.
Valuable assistance in the arrangement of the Collection and
the determination of accessions has. been given by Mr. C. W.
Mackworth Praed and others. :
Mr. W. lL. Sclater has made a revision of the Birds of Prey
and has prepared a manuscript catalogue of the group. Captain
H. Lynes, C.B., R.N., has worked out the valuable collections
made on his expeditions to Darfur and presented by him to the
Museum. Mr. D. A. Bannerman has continued his work on the
Birds of West Africa, and Mr. C. Chubb has worked at the
South American Birds, and has also continued the list of type
specimens in the Collection.
REPTILIA AND BATRACHIA.
All additions have been registered and incorporated in the
Collection, and the work of renewing spirit and replenishing jars
has been proceeded with as usual.
The Lataste Collection has been catalogued separately, and
the spirit specimens have been allowed to remain in their original
sealed jars.
Since the retirement of Mr. G. A. Boulenger, F.R.S., the
work in this section of the Department has been carried on by
Miss Joan B. Procter. Dr. Malcolm Smith has worked out the
extensive collection of Reptiles and Batrachians from Siam and
Annam which he has now presented to the Museum.
PISCEs.
All the accessions have been determined, registered and in-
corporated. The work of respiriting the collection has been
continued. ,
Extensions of the Gallery in the Spirit Building have been
made, and will accommodate 24 cases, which will relieve the
congestion of a small part of the collection; the urgent necessity
for a new Spirit Building still remains.
The taxidermist has been chiefly engaged in making casts
and models from spirit specimens.
MOLLUSCA.
In the Shell Gallery 113 of the cabinets have been overhauled
and, in many cases, rearranged. A number of surplus fuzes
were purchased from the Disposal Board (Ministry of Munitions),
and it is proposed to cut these in two and use the halves as end-
weights for the loose series of boxes in order to keep them in
position and obviate damage.
DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY. 101
Mr. G. K. Gude has continued his rearrangement of the
exhibited series of Helicidae. Work on the collections has been
greatly facilitated by extra assistance, which has been partly
voluntary, given by Mr. J. R. le B. Tomlin and Lieut.-Col. A. J.
Peile. These gentlemen are responsible for the following work:
Systematic rearrangement and cataloguing of the Marginellidae
and Mactridae and of the Gwatkin collection of radulae, study
and determination of collections from Antigua, Bermuda, the
Mediterranean and other localities.
The arrangement and preparation of the Blanford and
Godwin-Austen Collection of Oriental Land Mollusca have been
continued by Lieut.-Col. H. H. Godwin-Austen, F.R.S.
General collections from Peru, Zanzibar, Florida, Syria, and
from a Neolithic ‘shell-mound in Trinidad (W.I.) have been
determined and reported upon.
A beginning has been made of a card-index of Mollusca, with
references to bionomic, distributional and other data.
A eard-index of all accessions has been started, and the simi-
lar index of microscopic preparations made in 1919 has been re-
arranged upon a new plan.
In the Spirit Building the work of replenishing the jars and
bottles has been continued, and concurrently with this a generic
catalogue of spirit material is in course of preparation.
MyYRIOPODA AND ARACHNIDA.
A number of large drawings of Mites and Ticks injurious to
man, and domestic animals have been mounted and are now
exhibited on the wall in the Insect Gallery.
Considerable progress has been made with a manuscript list
of the species of Myriopoda and Arachnida in the Collection.
CRUSTACEA AND PYCNOGONIDA.
Some accessions of more than usual interest have been dealt
with, notably a small collection comprising several new or little-
known species from the South Orkney Islands. All the spirit
preparations exhibited in the Gallery have been inspected and
a considerable number refilled or remounted. In the spirit
collection bottles urgently requiring refilling have been attended
to. The registration of the Norman collection, which has been
in progress since 1911, has at length been completed, a total
number of 53,611 specimens having been registered. A larger
number of specialists than usual have consulted the collections
during the year, and the Museum has profited by their deter-
mination of unnamed or wrongly-named specimens.
ECHINODERMA.
All accessions have been registered and incorporated.
Fourteen specimens of Holothurians exhibited in the Star-
fish Gallery have been remounted.
Worms.
Accessions have been, as far as possible, determined and regis-
tered. Special attention has been given to the revision of certain
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groups of Nematoda, the series of Gnathostomidae having been
much improved, and certain sections of the Ascaridae worked over-
with a view to their more accurate determination and systematic
arrangement. The determinations of many other specimens in
the old collection have also been checked or revised; some of
these specimens bear labels on the outside of the bottles, which
have become almost illegible from fading and discoloration; in
such casea the.original data have been copied on to inside labels
so that they may be more permanently preserved.
BRACHIOPODA.
A beginning has been made of the determination of unnamed
forms in the collection. Mr. J. W. Jackson has kindly under--
taken the study of this material.
COELENTERATA.
The study collection of Hydroida has been respirited through-
out, and the Norman collection sealed in addition. Two hundred
microscopical preparations of Hydroida have been made and
incorporated in the study slide collection. |
Several small collections have been determined, catalogued
and incorporated.
The study collection of dry Fungid corals has been reviewed.
and rearranged, many undetermined specimens havine been
named.
PoRIFERA.
All accessions have been determined and incorporated and.
the respiriting of the collection has been carried on.
IIl.—Duplicates and Exchanges.
(a) Duplicates.
Duplicates have been distributed to museums, scientific insti--
tutions and individuals as follows :—
Mammalia.—Goeldi Museum, Para; Dr. A. Cabrera.
Aves.—Boy Scouts’ Association; National Museum of Wales,.
Cardiff.
Batrachia.—American Museum of Natural History, New
York.
Pterobranchia.—National Museum, Dublin.
Mollusca.—National Museum of Wales, Cardiff; Prof. J. H-.
Ashworth, F.R.S.; Mr. P. J. Barraud; Lt.-Col. A. J. Peile>,
Mr. J. R. Le B. Tomlin; Mr. G. A. Williamson.
Crustacea.—Indian Museum, Calcutta; Prof. E. L. Bouvier;
Mr. Th. Delachaux; Mr, R. Gurney; Dr. B. Parisi; Dr. W, M-
Tattersall.
Arachnida and Myriopoda.—Eton College Museum,
Echinoderma.—Prof. W. K. Fisher; Dr. T. Mortensen; Mr.
W. K. Spencer.
Worms.—Mr. G. A. Williamson.
Protozoa.—Prof. W. J. Sollas, F.R.S.
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(b) Exchanges.
Exchanges have been made with the following museums and
individuals : —
Miscellaneous.—Prof. A. Dendy, F.R.S.
Mammalia.—Madrid Museum; Perth Museum, Western
Australia; Frere Apollinaris-Maria.
Reptilia.—Mr. A. Loveridge.
Pisces.—Prof. C. H. Eigenmann.
Mollusca.—Mr. 8. 8..Berry; Commander F. H. Fitzroy; Mr.
G. K. Gude; Mr. A. W. Stelfox.
Echinoderma.—Dr. Th. Mortensen.
Polyzoa.—Dr. M, J. Barroso.
Coelenterata.—Prof. Max Weber.
ITl.—Departmental labrary.
The acquisitions to the Library of the Departments of Zoology
and Entomology, including ‘the Walsingham Library, obtained
by purchase, presentation and exchange during the year, consist
of 81 separate works and pamphlets in 107 volumes, and 1,982
parts of periodicals and works in progress.
Two hundred and thirty-two volumes have been bound, includ-
ing those belonging to the Walsingham Library.
The work of collating, stamping, press-marking and entering
all additions in the Catalogue has been performed as usual.
All the entries of Zoological Works in the portion of the
General Catalogue of Books which has been printed during the
year have been checked.
The following acquisitions are worthy of special inewtious —
Mathews, G. M. The Birds of Australia. Vol. VIII., pts. 1-5;
and Supplement No. 1. Presented by G. M. Mathews, Esq.
Oberthiir, Ch. Etudes de Lépidoptérologie comparée. . Fasc.
xvll. Text and Pls. Presented by Monsieur Ch. Oberthiir.
Rusconi, M. Histoire naturelle, développement et métamor-
phose de la Salamandre terrestre . . . ouvrage posthume publié
par... J. Morganti. fol. Pavie, 1854. Purchased.
Latham, J. [Six yolumes of original water-colour drawings
upon which Latham founded the descriptions in his ‘‘ General
Synopsis of Birds’’ and “ Index Ornithologicus,’’ containing
many figures of birds that formed the types of Latham’s species. |
Purchased.
The following is a list of Donors to the Departmental Library
during the year 1920 :—
Agricultural Adviser, Government of India, Pusa, Behar, British
India.
Agricultural and Mechanical College, Mississippi, U.S.A.
Agricultural Research Institute, Pusa, Behar, British India.
Austen, Major E. E., D.S.O.
Avicultural Society.
Bannerman, D. A.
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Barbero, Dr. Andrés.
Barnes, Dr. W.
Baylis, H. A.
Bosca Seytre, Prof. A.
Boutan, L.
British ‘Ornithologists’ Union.
British Waterworks Association.
Bureau of Fisheries, Department of Commerce, Washington,
UvS. A.
Calderén, V. M.
Carazzi, Prof. D.
Casey, T. Iu.
Coastguards and Fisheries Service, Cairo, Egypt.
C ‘onchological Society of Great Br ree and Ireland:
Conseil permanent International pour l’Exploration de la Mer.
Cooper Ornithological Club, California.
Dehaut, E. G.
Department van Landbouw, Nijverheid en Handel, Buitenzorg,
Java.
Department of Aeneas Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Department of Agriculture, Federated Malay States.
Department of Agriculture, Fij1.
Department of Agriculture, Madras.
Department of Agriculture, New South Wales.
Department of Agriculture, Ottawa, Canada.
Department of Agriculture, Regina, Saskatchewan.
Department of Agriculture, South Australia.
Department of Agriculture, Union of South Africa.
Department of Agriculture, Victoria, Australia.
Department of Acriculture, Washington, D.C. U.S.A:
Department of Fisheries, New South Wales.
Director of Agriculture, Manila, P.TI.
Dixson, W.
Doello-Jurado, M.
Dognin, P.
Donisthorpe, H.
Edwards, F. W.
Eecke, R. van.
Entomological Society of London.
Entomological Society of Nova Scotia.
Entomological Society of Ontario, Canada.
Ewart, Prof. J. ‘Cossar., MD. GFeR?S.
“f Field.’’? Editor ot,
Fisheries Department, Madras.
Fishery Board for Scotland.
Foreign Bird Club.
Fraser, C. McLean.
Godwin-Austen, Lt.-Col. H. H., F.R.S.
Government Publications Office, Cairo, Egypt.
Gray, Dr. R. W.
Guérin-Ganivet, Dr. J. E.
Hamlyn, J. D.
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Hawaiian Sugar Planters’ Association, Honolulu.
Herdman* Prom) W. A., C.BK., F.R.S.
Imperial Bureau of Entomology.
imperial Department of Agriculture, Bridgetown, Barbados.
Imperial Department of Agriculture, India.
Imperial Museum, Tokyo.
Indian Museum, Calcutta.
Indian Research Fund Association, Simla, India.
Iredale, T.
Janse, A. J. T.
Junta para Ampliacion de Estudios, Madrid.
Kaburaki, T.
Kansas State Agricultural College.
Koeniglich Ungarisches Ornithologisches Institut, Budapest.
Kommissionen for Havundersogelser, Kobenhavn.
Laboratorio di Zoologia Generale e Agraria della R. Scuvia
d’ Agricoltura in Portici.
Linnean Society of London.
Lord, C. E.
Hiucas, Dr By A.
McClymont, J. K.
McGregor, R. C.
Marine Biological Association, Plymouth.
Mathews, G. M.
Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries.
Ministry of Public Works, Cairo, Egypt.
Museum of Comparative Zoclogy, Harvard College, Cambridge,
Mass.
Naef, Dr. A.
Navas, R. P. Longinos, 8. J.
Oberthiir, Ch.
Paganetti-Hummler, G.
Penard, E.
Provincial Secretary, Province of British Columbia, Canada.
Public Health Service, United States Treasury Department.
Redfield, C. L. . '
Regia Universita di Palermo.
“Revista de Agricultura ’’’; Sao Paulo; Director-Redactor.
Reynell,’ A.
Rockefeller Foundation, New York.
Rothschild, Hon. N. C.
Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.
Scherdlin, P.
Schmidt, kK. P.
Schwetz, J.
Sclater, W. L.
Scott, H. H..
Secretary of State for India.
Sherborn, C. D.
Shiraki, Dr. T.
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., U.S.A.
Société Entomologique de France.
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State Museum, University of Washington.
Stationery Office. f
Stempell, Dr. W.
Sund, O.
Super intendent of Government Printing, India.
Swann, H. Kirke.
Tattersall, Dr. W. M.
Tropical Diseases Bureau, London.
Tufts College, Mass., U.S.A.
Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies.
University of Cornell.
University of Illinois, Agricultural Experiment Station.
University of Pennsylvania.
Zoological Museum, Copenhagen.
Zoological Society of London.
Zoological Society of New York.
Zoological Society of Philadelphia.
Zoological Society of Tokyo.
IV .—Publications.
In’ addition to the official catalogues and other volumes:
published by the Trustees (see p. 92), the following reports and
descriptive papers, based on the collections, have been pub-
lished : —
Mammalia.
By Ouprietp Tuomas, F.R.S.:
‘Scientific Results from the Mammal Survey, No. AT?”
Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., xxvi., p. 933.
‘“Two new species of Sylvilagus from Colombia.” Ann.
Mag. Nat. Hist. (9) v., p. 3l. :
‘“* A new Shrew and two new Foxes from Asia Minor.”’ Zb.,
ped lal)
s The generic positions of ‘Mus’ nigricauda, Thos., and
woosnami, Schwann.’’ Jb., p. 140.
‘*A new Taphozous from the Soudan.’’ Jb., p. 142.
““A new Marmoset from the Peruvian Amazons.” IJb.,
p. 184.
‘*A further collection of Mammals from Jujuy.” /b.,
p- 188.
‘‘ Some notes on Babirussa.’’ Ib., p. 135.
“Two new Asiatic Bats of the genera Tadarida and Dyacop-
terus. Ib., p. 283.
‘“‘ Four new Squirrels of the genus Tamiops.”’ Ib., p. 304.
‘On Neotropical Bats of the genus ae ila Ace erties 0)
‘“ New species of Reithrodon, Abrocoma and Scapteromys
from Argentina.’’ J/b., p. 473.
‘A new Fat-tailed Gerbil (Pachyuromys) from Western
Algeria.’’ Novitates Zoologice, Xxv11., p. ah
“* Scientific Results from the Mammal Survey, N No. XXII.’”
- Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., xxvil., p. 25.
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“‘Notoryctes in North-west Australia.’’ Ann. Mag. Nat.
Hist (@), vis, ps Lid
“A new genus of ‘Echimyine.”” 1b., p. 113.
‘“On Mammals from near Tinogasta, PCat collected
by Senor Budin.’’ Zb., p. 116.
“A new Tuco-tuco from Tucuman.”’ Ib. , p. 243.
‘On ‘Mammals from the Lower Amazons in. the Goeldi
Museum, Para.’’ Jb., p. 266.
“Qn small Mammals from the Famatina Chain, North-
western Rioja.’’ Jb., p. 417.
“On Mammals from Ceram.” Zb. , p. 422.
““ New small Mammals from New Guinea.” [b., p. 533.
‘A note on the type-locality and geographical races of the
Gundi (Ctenodactylus gundi, Kothm.).’’ Novitates
Zoologice. xxvil., p. 506.
By Oupriztp Tuomas, F.R.S., and Martin A. C. Hinton :—
“Qn the group of African Zorils represented by Ictonyz
libyca.’’ Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (9), v., p. 367.
‘“Captain Angus Buchanan’s Air Expedition. 1. On a series
of small mammals from Kano.’’ WNovitates Zoologice.
MVP nO.
By Martin A. C. Hinton : —
‘Scientific Results from the Mammal Survey, No. XVIII..,.
Report on the House Rats of India, Burma and Ceylon,
Part IV.’’ Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., xxvi.,
p- 906.
** Three new Re Act: of Spalax monticola.’’ Ann. Mag.
Nat. Hast. (9). v.,p. 312.
*“The sub-species of Paracerus flavivittis, Peters.’’ Jb.,
308.
‘‘ The Irish Otter.’’ Jb., p. 464.
“The species of Ccrahy inhabiting Angola.’’ Ann. Mag.
Nat. Hist. (9), vi., p. 102.
“Three new Ath cans from Northern Rhodesia.’’ Jb.,.
p. 239.
‘‘ Note on the Duikers hitherto referred to Cephalophus
marwellr.”’ Ib., p. 629.
By Martin A. C. Biwihs and P. S. KrrsHaw :—
‘“On a collection of Mammals from the Dinka Dbsibey Bahr-
el-Djebel.”” b., p. 94.
By R. C. Wrovucuron : —
“Summary of the Results from the Indian Mammal Survey
of the Bombay Natural History Society.”’
Part V.—Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., xxvi.,
p- 955. .
Part VI.—Op. cit., xxvil., p. 57,
Part VII.—Jb., p. 301.
By R. C. Wroveuton and Winirrep M. Davipson : —
‘‘ Bombay Natural History Society’; Mammal Survey of
India, Burma and Ceylon. Report No. 30, Dekhan,
Poona District, and No. 31, Nilgiris.’’ Journ. Bombay
Nat. Hist. Soc., xxvi., p. 1025.
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ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
By R. C. Wroveuron and Masor R. E. Cuensman :—
“’ A new species of Mellivora from Somaliland.’’ Ann. Mag.
Nat. Hist. (9),.v., p. 197:
Aves.
By N. B. Kinnear :—
“A new form of Nuthatch from Burma.’’ Bull. B.O.C.,
xl, ps 142:
By C. Cuuss : —
‘* Descriptions of new forms of South and Central American
bandas?) WBIOcC 4 ales paid.
“* Descriptions of new genera and new sub-species of South
and Central American birds.’’ xl., p. 107.
‘* Descriptions of South American birds.’’ xl., p. 155.
By D. A. Bannerman :—
List of the Birds of the Canary Islands, with detailed
reference to the Migratory Species and the Accidental
Visitors. \'! Part, {V.!' This, 9920)!" pp. 497-182) i320 =300,
919-569, pls. xv. and xvi. and sketch-map.
A Review of the African Dicruride in the British Museum.
Ibis, 1920, pp. 489-445.
Reptilia and Batrachia.
By G. A. Boutencer, F.R.S.:—
“A Monograph of the American Frogs of the genus Rana.”’
Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts Sci. Boston. lv. (9), p. 418.
‘“A Monograph of the South Asian, Papuan, Melanesian
and Australian Frogs of the genus /tana.’’ Rec. Ind.
Mus: ec up eds
‘“A List of the Snakes of West Africa from Mauritania to
the French Congo.’’ Proc. Zool. Soc. 1919, p. 267.
“A List of the Snakes of North Africa.’’ t.c., p. 299.
‘* Descriptions of two New Frogs from Brazil.’’ Ann. Mag.
Nat); Hist. (9),0%v.5 yp: hee:
‘‘Descriptions of a New Gecko and a New Snake from
Sumatra, te p., cele
‘“ Descriptions of three New Frogs in the Collection of the
British Museum.’ J0b., vi., p. 106.
‘Descriptions of Four New Snakes in the Collection of the
British Museum.’’ t.c., p. 108.
‘‘ Description of a New Snake of the genus Contia B. and G.,
from Persia.’’ Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 1920,
ito
* Rintiles and Batrachians Collected in Korinchi, W.
Sumatra, by Messrs. H. C. Robinson and C. Boden
Kloss. Journ. Fed. Malay Mus., viii., p. 286.
‘Observations sur un Batracien Urodéle d’Asie.’’ Bull.
Soc. Zool. Paris. 1920, p. 98. i
‘“Une tortue extraordinaire: Testudo loveridgw, sp. Nn.
C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris. 170, p. 263.
‘“‘ Sur le Gavial fossile de 1’Omo.”’ Jb., p. 918.
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By Joan B. Procter :—
‘“*On the variation in the number of Dorsal Scale-rows in
our British Snakes.’’ Proc. Zool. Soc. 1919, p. 357.
‘On a collection of tailless Batrachians from East Africa
made by Mr. A. Loveridge in the years 1914~1919.”’
Zb., 1920, p- 411.
“On the type-specimen of Rana holsti Boulenger.”’ t.c.,
p. 421.
By Artuvur LovreripGE : —
‘* Notes on East African Lizards collected in 1915-1919, with
descriptions of a new genus and species of Skink, and a
new sub-species of Gecko.’’ Proc. Zool. Soc. 1920.
Pwlol
Pisces.
By G. A. Bourencer, F.R.S.
- Poissions recueillis au Congo Belge par Pexnadition du
Dr. C. Christy, Ann. Mus. Congo. Zool. Ser. 1, vol. it.
Fasc. 4.
By C. Tate REGAN, M.A., F.R.S.:—
The Classification of the Fishes of the Family Cichlide.—
1. The Tanganyika Genera. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (9),
1) p. 3d.
A new Cichlid Fish of the Genus Limnochromis. t.c., p. 152.
A Revision of the African Cichlid Fishes of the Genus T'ylo-
chromis. t.c., p. 163.
Freshwater Fishes from Madagascar. t.c., p. 419.
Three new Fishes from the Tanganyika Territory. Jb. vi.,
. 104.
A oe of the Flatfishes (Heterosomata) of Natal. Ann.
Durban Mus. 11., p. 206.
Fishes collected in Korinchi, West Sumatra, by Messrs.
H. C. Robinson and C. Boden Kloss. Journ. Fed.
Malay States Mus. vili., p. 307.
Mollusca.
By W. T. Catman, D. Sc., F.R.S.:
‘* Notes on Marne Nod: eae Animals.—l. The Ship-
worms (Teredinide).”’ Proc. Zool. Soc. 1920 pa aol
ibyG. C: Rosson, Blas: ——
“©On the anatomy of Paludestrina jenkinst.”” Ann. Mag.
Nats Hise (aye vy pe 420.
““ Observations upon tne succession of Paludestrina ulve
and ventrosa in brackish water.’?’ Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist.
(Hew. pe Ooos
By Hucu Warson, M.A.:
“The anatomy of two species of Helicarion from tropical
Afriea.’’ Proc. Malac. Soc. xiv. ep: 91.
110 * ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
Arachnida.
By A. 8. Hirst: —
‘‘ Revision of the English Species of Red Spider (Genera
Tetranychus and Oligonychus).’’ Proc. Zool. Soc.
July, 1920, p. 49.
“‘ Notes on Acari parasitic on Birds, with descriptions of Two
new Species.’”?’ Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (9), vi., p. 121.
Crustacea and Pycnogonida.
By W. T. Caiman, D.Sc., F.R.S.:—
‘“A new crab of the genus Sesarma from Basra.’’ Ann.
Mag. Nat. Hist.: (9), v., p. 62. «
‘“ A whale barnacle of the genus Xenobalanus from Antarctic
Seas.”’ Op. cit. (9), vi., p. 165.
““QOn a collection of Pycnogonida from the South Orkney
Islands.’* Jb., p. 244.
‘“ A new species of the Isopod genus Serolis.’’ Ib., p. 299.
‘“* Cumacea of the Canadian Arctic Expedition, 1913—1918.”’
Rep. Canad. Arct. Exped., vii., pt. c.
By Oscar SunpD :—
‘“The ‘Challenger’ Eryonidea.’?’ Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist.
()amisyp. 220:
Platyhelminthes and Nemathelminthes.
By H. A. Baytis, M.A.:—
‘* Observations on the Genus Crassicauda.”’ Ann. Mag. Nat.
Hist. (9) v., p. 410.
‘* Oxyuris paronai v. Linst., and its Association with another
Oxyurid in the same Host.’’ Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist.
(Owl, be leo.
“‘ Notes on some Parasitic Worms from East Africa.”’ J6.,
p- 283.
‘* A new Siamese Nematode of the Genus Falcaustra.’’ Ib.,
p. 408.
‘On the Classification of the Ascaride.—1. The Systematic
Value of certain Characters of the Alimentary Canal.”’
‘Parasitology, xii., 3, p. 253.
‘By H. A. Bayzis, M.A., and Lr.-Cot. Crayton Lane, M.D. :—
‘A Revision of the Nematode Family Gnathostomide.”’
Proc. Zool. Soc., 1920, p. 249.
V.— Acquisitions.
MAMMALIA.
The accessions during the past year have been both numerous
and important. Chief among them, perhaps, are the fine collec-
tions made for the Bombay Natural History Society’s Mammal
Survey in Persia, Assam and North Burma by Colonel J. EK. B.
Hotson, Mr. J. P. Mills and Messrs. F. Kingdon Ward and P. M.
Leonard; and the important collections of Siamese and Malayan
DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY. . lil
Mammals presented by Mr. E. G. Herbert and the Federated
Malay States Museum.
The following is ‘a list of the more important acquisitions
arranged in geographical order : —
_Europe.
2 Badgers, 3 Otters and a Marten from the West of Ireland;
purchased,
The 5th thoracic vertebrate of a Blue Whale (Balenoptera
musculus) stranded on the N.W. Shore of Colonsay Island,
Hebrides; presented by Murdoch M’ Neill, Esq.
The tympanic bone of the same Blue Whale; presented by
Philip Mair, Esq.
A number of Cetacean tympanic bones from the Harris
Whaling Station; presented by Carl F. Herlofson, F'sq.
Head of a Common Dolphin (Delphinus delphis) stranded at
Hayle Bay, N. Cornwall; head, paddles and tail-fin of a Pilot
Whale (Globicephala melena) stranded at Balmedie; a Risso’s
Dolphin (Grampus griseus) stranded at Wembury, S. Devon;
-and jaws and paddles of various small Cetacea stranded on the
British Coasts; presented by the Board of Trade.
Asia.
2 blades of baleen of a Rorqual (Balenoptera sp.) stranded
at Viziadrug, Bombay; presented by NV. B. Kinnear, Esq.
A few bones of a Balenoptera from Khanduli Peninsula,
Siam ; presented by the Federated Malay States Museum.
A skull with antlers of a Sambar (Rusa unicolor) from
Central India; presented by Lieut.-Col. Eric H. Sharman.
4 Mammals from Sumatra, including a new Fruit Bat (Dya-
copterus brookst); presented by Cecil J. Brooks, Esq.
10 Mammals collected by Mr. G. Forrest in Yunnan; pre-
sented by Col. Stephenson R. Clarke, C.B.
7 skulls of Malayan Mammals from the collection of the late
Dr. A. R. Wallace, F.R.S.; purchased.
109 Mammals from Ceylon; presented by W. W. A. Phillips,
Esq. :
51 Mammals collected by Col. J. E. B. Hotson at Shiraz,
Persia; presented by the Bombay Natural History Society.
Skin and skeleton of a Pére David’s Deer (Hlaphurus davidt-
_anus); presented by the Zoological Society.
25 Mammals from the Naga Hills, collected by Mr. J. P.
Mills, and 59 Mammals from Assam collected by Mr. H. W.
“Wells; presented by the Bombay Natural History Society.
58 Mammals from Siam; presented by E. G. Herbert, Esq.
39 Mammals from Ceram, including 6 new species of rodent
-and a new Marsupial (Rhynchomeles prattorum) ; purchased.
26 Mammals from North Burma collected by Messrs. F.
‘Kingdon Ward and P. M. Leonard, including the types of five
new species; presented by the Bombay Natural History Society.
Lig ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
Skull, with record horn, of Rhinoceros (/¢hinoceros sondaicus)
and two frontlets with horns of Bibos banteng trom Java; pre-
sented by M. Mazwell, Esq.
78 Mammals from the Garo Hills, Assam, collected by Mr.
H.W. Wells; presented by the Bombay Natural History Society.
S88 Mammals from Siam, including the types of nine new
forms of Callosciurus; presented by the Federated Malay States
Museum.
Skull of Bubalus bubalis macroceros from Assam (second in
Rowland Ward’s list); bequeathed by the late Arthur Forbes,
Pesge ACS ..iGcased «
Africa.
-A human skull and mandible from Mt. Ugi, Nigeria; pre-
sented by Capt. Rk. Wolseley.
A mandible, imperfect, and other portions of a human skeleton
embedded in tuta from ‘* Cleopatra’s tomb ’’; presented by W.
Louis Collins, Esq.
A collection of pelves, sterna, tympanic bones and baleen,
representing the Sei Whale (Lalenoptera borealis), Fin-whale
(4. physalus), Bryde’s Whale (B. bryde:), Humpback (Jfegaptera
nodosa) and Sperm Whale (Physeter catodon), taken at the
Saldanha Bay Whaling Station; presented by Arthur F. Bear-
park, E'sq.
A skeleton of Bryde’s Whale (Balwnoptera bryde:) from the
Saldanha Whaling Station; presented by the Union Government
of South Africa.
Skull of a Bottle-nosed Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) found
in the desert W. of Fayum; presented by H. Carter, Esq.
2 blades of baleen from Bryde’s Whale (Balenoptera brydet)
from Durban; presented by H. W. Bell Marley, Esq.
The heads of 12 Antelopes from the Sudan; presented by
C. E. Russell, Esq.
22 Mammals trom British Ruanda; collected and presented
by Capt. J. EB. Philipps, M.C.
8 Mammals from the N.E. Transvaal; presented by Maj. J.
Stevenson Hamilton.
A new Fat-tailed Gerbil (Pachyuromys duprasi faroultw) from
Western Algeria; presented by Lord Rothschild, F.R.S.
91 Mammals from Nigeria and Sierra Leone; collected by
W. P. Lowe, Esq.
’ Skulls of 8 Antelopes and a Wart Hog from Katanga an
N.W. Rhodesia; presented by Mrs. Peck.
42 Mammals collected by Maj. J. Stevenson Hamilton in the
Southern Sudan; presented by the Wellcome Laboratory,
Khartoum. ,
56 Mammals, including 9 specimens of Varian’s Sable Ante-
lope and 6 Zebras (one mounted) from Angola; collected and pre-
sented by Gilbert Blaine, Esq.
13 Mammals from South Tunis; presented by M. Blanc.
16 Mammals from the Southern Sudan; collected and pre-
sented by the Rev. A. Shaw.
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76 Mammals collected by Mr. H. H. Swinny; presented by
Col. Cosens.
51 Mammals collected in Algeria by Dr. K. Jordan; pre-
sented by Lord Rothschild, F.R.S.
: ce Mammals from Darfur; presented by Capt. H. Lynes, C.B.,
vv.
232 small Mammals from N. Rhodesia; collected by Capt.
Guy C. Shortridge.
22 Mammals from N. Rhodesia; presented by Col. Stephenson
ER. Clarke, C.B.
America, North.
8 skulls of Reindeer from Baffin Land; presented by the
Sabellum Trading Co., Ltd.
America, South.
499 Mammals from Argentina, comprising 143 from the pro-
vince of Jujuy, 127 from the province of Catamarca, 68 from
N.W. Rioja, all collected by Senor E. Budin; and 161 collected
by Mr. H. E. Box; presented by Oldfield Thomas, Esq., F.R.S.
9 Mammals from Peru; purchased. ;
A Tuco-tuco (Ctenomys talarum) from La Plata; presented by
Dr. C. Bruch.
69 Mammals from Amazonia, including the types of ten new
forms; presented by the Para Museum.
7 Mammals from Bolivia; presented by Walter Goodfellow,
Esq.
439 Mammals from Paraguay; presented by the Marquis de
Wavrin.
3 human skulls from a cave in the Bolivian Andes; presented
by J. L. Wheeler, Esq.
3 skulls of Sierionis Indians from El Kuachi Forest, E.
Bolivia; presented by Walter Goodfellow, Esq.
Antarctica.
2 paddles of the Southern Right Whale (Balena australis)
and 2 foetuses of the Humpback Whale (Megaptera nodosa) from
South Georgia; presented by Johan Rasmussen and Alea. Lange,
Esqrs.
an collection of Cetacean ear- and pelvic-bones, and a portion
o{ the jaw of the rare Beaked Whale Berardius, from the South
Shetlands; presented by Sir W. Douglas Young, K.B.E., C.M.G.,
Governor of the Falkland Islands.
AVES.
The acquisitions number 6,885. Of these the most note-
worthy are as follows :—
Europe.
9. birds from Norfolk; presented by S. L. Whymper, Esq.
93 eggs of Birds from Macedonia; presented by Mrs.
Montague. —
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114 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
4 eggs, 2 of Grus monachus and 2 of G. leucauchen (habitat
E. Siberia), laid in confinement at Scampston Hall, Yorks., pre-
viously unrepresented in the collection; presented by W. H. St.
Quintin, Esq.
Asia.
The type of Cottle riparia indica from the Punjab; presented
by H. Whistler, Esq.
4 Birds from Siam, including the types of Picus rubricollaris,
Nigravis herberti, and Schaniparus rufigularis major; presented
by EL. G. Herbert, Esq.
The type of Pellorneum ruficeps minus from N.W. Himalayas;
presented by A. E. Jones, Esq.
41 Birds from Mesopotamia and Persia; presented by P. A.
Buxton, Esq. |
37 Birds from Ceylon; presented by W. W. A. Phillips, Esq.
172 Birds and 69 eggs from Palestine and Mesopotamia;
presented by Capt. C. R. S. Pitman.
163 Birds from China; presented by EF. B. Howell, Esq.
608 Birds from Sumatra; presented by Messrs. H. C. Robin-
son and C.B. Kloss. |
3 Birds from Sind, Baluchistan and Mesopotamia, types of
Crateropus canorus sindianus, Pycnonotus leucotis mesopotamica,
and Janthocincla lineata ziaratensis; presented by Dr. C. B.
Ticehurst.
A nest and 5 eggs of the Mesopotamian Sparrow (Passer.
moabiticus mesopotamicus); presented by Maj. R. E. Cheesman.
Africa.
19 Birds from Kordofan; presented by Maj. Claude Graham.
A restoration of the Bourbon Dodo or White Dodo (Didus
borbonicus); presented by the Trustees of the Rowland Ward
Bequest.
608 Birds from Sierra Leone and Nigeria; collected by W. P.
Lowe, Esq. :
A male West African Ostrich (Struthio camelus) from the |
Gold Coast; presented by the Trustees of the Rowland Ward
Bequest.
261 Birds and 114 eggs from Uganda; presented by L. M.
Seth-Smith, Esq. .
727 Birds from Darfur and Kordofan, including types of the
following: Mirafra rufa, Anthus sordidus jebelmarre, Amadina
fasciata furensis, Saxicola torquata jebelmarre, Myrmecocichla
ethiops sudanensis, Prionops concinnata ochracea, Micropus
equatorialis furensis, and Fringillaria striolata jebelmarre;
presented by Capt. H. Lynes, C.B., R.N.
569 Birds from Cameroons; presented by G. L. Bates, Esq.
248 Birds from Cameroons; purchased.
133. Birds from Rhodesia, including the type of Lybius
chaplini; presented by Col. Stephenson R. Clarke, C.B.
395 Birds from the Canary Islands; purchased from D. A.
Bannerman, Esq.
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14 Birds from Nyasaland; presented by Rodney C. Wood,
sq.
America, South..
56 Birds from Paraguay; presented by the Marquis de
Wavrin.
270 Birds and 923 eggs from Argentina; presented by Mrs.
Ernest Gibson.
55 Birds from Para; collected by the late Dr. A. R. Wallace; .
purchased.
85 Birds from Bolivia; presented by Walter Goodfellow, Esq.
66 Birds from Western Ecuador; purchased.
840 Birds from the district of Lima, West Peru; presented by
Lord Brabourne.
REPTILIA.
The accessions total 1,853; 1,722 were presented, 64 purchased
and 47 received in exchange. Of this number 1,631 specimens
belong to the magnificent private collection presented by Monsieur
Fernand Lataste. This collection includes Reptiles from all parts
‘of the world, but is especially rich in African species; it con-
tains the types of the species described by the donor and many
rarities.
The other accessions worthy of notice are: —
Europe. . :
3 Skinks from Cannes; presented by M. Gaston de Witte.
Asia.
8 Reptiles from Persia, including the types of a new snake
(Zamenis hotsoni) and a new Tortoise (Yestudo buatont); pre-
sented by the Bombay Natural History Society.
17 Snakes from S. India and Ceylon; presented by Lt.-Col.
F. Wail. | .
_ The types of two new Snakes (I?hinophis porrectus and R.
drummond-hayt); presented by Lt.-Col. F. Wall.
A very rare Gecko (Teratolepis scabriceps) from Madras;
presented by P. W. Devanesen, Esq.
6 Reptiles from the Burma-Siam Border; presented by Maj.
C. H. Stockley. : |
The type of a new Sea-Snake (Hydrophis klossi) from
Selangor; presented by the Federated Malay States Museum.
23 Reptiles from Sumatra; presented by C. J. Brookes, Esq.
The type of a new Sea-Snake (Hydrophis cyanosoma) from
the Philippines; presented by Lt.-Col. F. Wall.
Australasia.
9 Reptiles from Ceram, including the type of a new Snake
(Typhlops ligorostris); purchased.
Africa.
47 Reptiles from E. Africa, including the types of the remark-
- able new ribless Tortoise (Testudo loveridgit), of a new Lizard
H2
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(Scolecoseps boulengert), and of a new race of Gecko (Lygodac-
tylus capensis mossambica) ; received in exchange from A. Lover-
idge, Esq.
29 Lizards from Teneriffe; purchased.
America.
The type of a new Snake from W. Ecuador (Leptognathus
hammondt), collected by Mr. G. Hammond; purchased.
12 Reptiles from Bolivia, including a Lizard (Ophiognomon
trisanale) new to the collection; presented by W. Goodfellow,
Esq.
BATRACHIA,
1,473 specimens were added to the collection, 1,449 by presen-
tation, and 24 by purchase.
Nearly the whole of the accessions belong to the splendid
collection presented by Monsieur Fernand Lataste, which totals
1,334 specimens from all parts of the world, including many types
and rare species.
The following also deserve special notice :—
Europe.
A very young Lungless Salamander (Spelerpes fuscus), born
in London, the second recorded specimen of the young of this
species; presented by Miss J. B. Procter.
Asia.
32 Batrachians from India, including the type of a new Frog
(Rana annandalit) ; presented by the Indian Museum.
Tadpoles of the new Frog (Nyctibatrachus sancte-palustris)
from Mysore; presented by C. R. Narayan Rao, Esq.
Australasia.
13 Batrachians from Ceram, including the types of a new
Frog (Rana grisea ceramensis), and 6 Tree Frogs (Hyla amboin-
ensis) new to the collection; purchased,
2 specimens of a rare Tree Frog (Batrachopsis melanopyga)
from New Guinea collected by the Messrs. Pratt; purchased.
Africa.
4 examples of a rare Frog (Anhydrophryne rattrayi) from
Cape Colony; presented by the Albany Museum. :
28 Frogs from E. Africa, including the types of 2 new
Tree Frogs (Rappia platyrhinus and Megaliralus loveridgiw), and
3 specimens of a Frog (Arthroleptis stenodactylus) new to the
collection; presented by A. Loveridge, Esq.
America.
13 Frogs from E. Bolivia, mcluding the type of a new Tree
Frog (Hyla goodfellowt); presented by W. Goodfellow, Esq.
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PISCBs.
The accessions number 1,832; 1,400 were presented, 24 pur-
chased, 184 received in exchange, and 224 formed a special col-
lection.
The following are worthy of notice :—
| One-spined and two-spined examples of the Three-spined
Stickleback (Gastrosteus aculeatus) from Staffordshire; presented
by B. Bryan, Esq.
2 Hog-backed Trout (Salmo trutto var.) from Sutherlandshire :
presented by P. M. Boase, Esq.
A large hybrid Roach and Rudd (Rutilus rutilus and Sear-
dinius erythrophthalmus) from the Wensum; presented by R.
Marsham, Esq. .
The head of a very large Pike (Hsox luctus) from Lough Conn;
presented by R. B. Marston, Esq.
31 Fishes from the Lousy Bank, taken at depths of 168-200
fms., and a very large Plaice (Pleuronectes platessa) from Ice-
land; presented by the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries.
2 Rays (fava radiata) from the Faroes; presented by R. M.
Thomson, Esq.
31 Fishes from Palestine, including a specimen of Caranr
fuscus, new to the collection; presented by IT. Aharcni, Esq.
300° Fishes from Basra, including examples of 5 species
(Discognathus rufus, Cyprinion macrostomus, Alburnus sellal,
A. mossulensis and Acanthobrama arrhada) new to the collec-
tion ; collected and presented by Major C. Christy.
37 Fishes from the Inlé Lake and Seistan, including co-types
‘of 5 new species (Schizothorax zarudnyi, Barilius auropurpureus,
Nemachilus brunneanus, Adiposia macmahoni and Chaudhuria
caudata) described by Dr. Annandale; presented by the Zoological
Survey of India.
- 12 Freshwater Fishes from Burma and Siam; presented by
Major C. H. Stockley.
83 Fishes from Siam; presented by H.R.H. Prince Abhakara
of Chumpon.
25 Fishes from China; presented by J. D. La Touche, Esq.
358 Fishes from Lake Tanganyika and the Congo, including
the types of 22 new species; collected by Dr. L. Stappers;
presented by the Congo Museum, Tervueren.
100 Fishes from the Ubanghi and Gribingui Rivers; collected
and presented by Monsieur A. Baudon.
13 Fishes from Cameroon, including the types of 3 new species
(Myomyrus macrops, Mormyrus jae and Barilius batesir);
collected by G. L. Bates; purchased.
72 Fishes from Sierra Leone, including a specimen of
Ephippus goreensis, new to the collection ; collected and presented
by W. P. Lowe, Esq.
87 Fishes from the Tanganyika Territory, including the types
of 3 new species (Labeo loveridger, Barbus aphantogramma and
Pareutropius micristius) ; collected and presented by A Loveridge,
Esq.
118 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
66 Fishes from the coast of Natal, including the types of 3
new species (Chetodon marleyi, Cynoglossus durbanensis and
Lepadichthys coccinotenia) and examples of 6 others new to the
collection; collected and presented by Romer Robinson, Esq.,
and H. W. Bell Marley, Esq.
31 Marine Fishes from Delagoa Bay (including Apogon
lineolatus and Lethrinus borbonicus, new to the collection) and’
47 freshwater Fishes from Madagascar (including Doryichthys
millepunctatus, Atherina alaotrensis and Bedotia madagascar-
zensis, new to the collection); presented by the Transvaal
Museum, Pretoria.
19 Fishes from the West Indies and West Africa, co-types
of species recently described by the donor; presented by Dr. J-
Metzelaar.
224 Fishes from Tobago, including specimens of apparently
new species of Atherinichthys and Clinus and examples of 5 other
species new to the collection (Holocentrum retrospinis, Upeneus
parvus, Glyphidodon rudis, Scarus squalidus and Batrachus
eryptocentrus); collected by P. Lu. Guppy, Esq.
184 Fishes from Colombia and Ecuador, including several
paratvpes; received in exchange from Prof. C. H. Eigenmann.
15 Fishes from the Falklands and South Shetlands; presented
by A. G. Bennett, Esq. ‘
TUNICATA.
The additions to the collection total 14.
MOLLUSCA.
The accessions total 39,298, of which over 33,000 are Piero-
pods collected by the ‘‘ Terra Nova.’’ Others deserving special
mention are :—
Europe.
4 complete examples and an egg-cluster of Alderia modesta
from Leigh-on-Sea, Essex; collected and presented by G. C.
Robson, Ksq.
3 Shells of Patulastra balme: from Glasnevin, Co. Dublin;
received in exchange from A. W. Stelfox, Esq.
2,000 land and freshwater Shells from Serbia and Macedonia;
presented by Prof. P. S. Pavlovie.
Asia.
56 Shells from Palestine; presented by I. Aharon, Esq.
57 complete examples of land and freshwater Mollusca from
Palestine; presented by Capt. P. J. Barraud.
3 Cephalopoda from Siam; presented by H.R.H. Prince Abha- -
kara of Chumpon.
637 land and brackish-water Shells from the Soela Archi-
pelago, including a remarkable series of Xesta citrina; collected
by Mr. W. Frost; purchased.
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Australia.
4 valves (co-types) of Hdentallina coralensis from Queens-
land; presented by Charles Hedley, Esq.
Africa.
50 fixed and preserved examples of Jsidora contorta and
Planorbis boissyt from Egypt (economic research material);
presented by Dr. E. Hindle.
v3 examples of Jstdora contorta, I. dybowskii and Planorbis
boissy: from the Sudan (economic research material); presented
by the Assistant Director, Wellcome Tropical Research Labora-
tory, Khartum.
131 complete land and freshwater Mollusca from Accra, Gold
Coast; presented by Dr. J. W. McFie.
A Shell of Euonyma gouldi from Griqualand; presented by
Major M. Connolly. |
8 Shells of Limnea sp. from Northern Rhodesia; presented
by H. E. Hornby, Esq.
8 Shells (including 3 types) from South Africa; presented by
H.C. Burnup, Esq.
4 complete examples of Cochlitoma zebra from South Africa;
presented by Mrs. Longstaff.
America. :
A string of egg-capsules containing jyoung examples of
Busycon perversum from Florida; presented by Mrs. E. P.
Bryant,
63 land and freshwater Shells from Colorado, Utah and
Wyoming; presented by J. Henderson, Esq.
300 marine and land Shells from Peru; presented by Dr. H. O.
Forbes.
Antarctic and Subantarctic Islands.
1,270 marine Mollusca from the Falklands, South Georgia
and the South Shetlands, collected by A. G. Bennett, Esq. ;
purchased.
An exceedingly fine egg-mass of Natica sp. from Scotia Bay,
South Orkneys; presented by A. G. Bennett, Esq.
MyYRIOPODA.
The accessions number 24; none is of special interest.
ARACHNIDA,.
654 specimens of Arachnida were received during the year;
the following are of interest :—
272 Ticks and Mites from various localities; presented by the
Imperial Bureau of Entomology.
Numerous specimens of a new Mite (Pygmephorus tarsalis)
found on the surface of cultivated mushrooms; presented by
Prof. H. Maxwell-Lefroy.
Numerous specimens of Mites parasitic on poultry, including
the rare species Dermoglyphus elonyatus; collected and presented
by A. S. Hirst, Esq.
- 120 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
A co-type (microscopical preparation) of a Mite (Geckobiella
(Hirstiella) trombidaformis); presented by Prof. A. Berlese.
CRUSTACEA AND PYCNOGONIDA.
588 Crustacea and 12 Pycnogonida have been added to the
collection during the year. The following are the more
important of the accessions : —
10 syntypes of a recently described Crustacean (Bathynella
chappuwist) of exceptional interest, from Switzerland; presented
by M. Th. Delachauz.
4 deep-water Crustacea from the North Atlantic; presented
by the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries.
145 freshwater Crustacea from India; presented by J. Omer-
Cooper, Esq.
30 freshwater Decapoda from India and Mesopotamia; pre-
sented by R. Gurney, Esq.
6 freshwater Decapoda from Mesopotamia; presented by the
Bombay Natural History Society.
T freshwater Crustacea from Bagdad; presented by Capt.
T. P. Buist, R.AM.C.
5 Decapoda from the coast of Palestine; presented. by I.
Aharon, Hsq.
- 25 Decapoda from Sierra Leone; presented by W. P. Lowe,
Esq.
A syntype of a remarkable new Crustacean (T'yphlocaris
lethea) from the Cave of Lethe in Cyrenaica; presented by Dr.
B. Parisi.
76 freshwater Shrimps from Madagascar; presented by the
Hon. Paul A. Methuen.
16 Syncarida from Australia and Tasmania; received in
exchange.
8 freshwater Crustacea from West Australia; presented by
the Director of the West Australian Museum.
11 Crustacea from Torres Straits; presented by F. A. Potts,
Esq.
6 Cumacea (including 4 syntypes of a new species) from
the Antarctic; presented by the Australian Antarctic Expedition.
T7 Crustacea and 6 Pycnogonida from the South Shetlands
and South Orkneys; presented by His Excellency the Governor
of the Falkland Islands.
45 Crustacea and 6 Pycnogonida from the South Shetlands
and South Orkneys; purchased.
54 parasitic Crustacea from Whales, from South Georgia;
presented by Messrs. J. Rasmussen and Alex. Lange.
ECHINODERMA.
‘The accessions numbered 108, of which 93 were presented, 13
purchased and 2 received in exchange. The following are of
interest : -—
68 specimens from Lousy Bank, Lat. 60° 20’ N. Long. 12° 40/
W. 108-200 fms., collected by Capt. F. M. Davis; presented by
the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries.
DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY. 121
13 specimens (species new to the collection) from the South
Shetland and South Orkney Islands; collected by A. G. Bennett,
Esq.; purchased.
WorRMS.
The total number of Parasitic Worms registered during the
year was 627; among the more important of these were the
following : —
Europe.
Examples of 8 species of Nematodes parasitic in Equide,
including co-types of 5 forms described as new by the donor;
presented by Prof. Warrington Yorke, M.D.
85 parasitic worms, being duplicates of species collected at
the Prosectorium from animals that had died in the Society’s
Gardens; presented by the Zoological Society of London.
Asia.
Examples of a number of species of the Nematode family
Gnathostomide from India and Ceylon (some of them new to
science) ; presented by Lt.-Col. Clayton Lane, M.D.
Africa.
A collection of 230 parasitic worms from East Africa;
presented by A. Loveridge, Esq.
Other worms numbered 62, including the following :—
5 specimens of Dichogaster jaculatriz (co-types), from the
Ituri Forest, Belgian Congo; presented by the Tervueren Museum.
5 examples of Phreaotothrix cantabrigiensis (co-types), from
a well at Chittering, Waterbeach, Cambridge; presented by the
University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge.
The type of Trichodrilus wcenorum from Pulham St. Mary,
Norfolk; presented by C. Candler, Esq.
22 worms, including examples of Leocrates atlantica, Pontob-
della muricata and Hyalinecia sp.; collected by Capt. F. M.
Davis; presented by the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries.
BRACHIOPODA.
The accessions total 42; none is of special importance.
PonyzZoa.
The accessions total 24, including 8 specimens from the
coast of Spain, received in exchange from Dr. M. J. Barroso.
Ca@LENTERATA.
The accessions number 73.
The most important 1s a series of Pennatulidg from the
Indo-Australian Archipelago collected by the “ Siboga’’;
received in exchange from Prof. Max Weber.
Collections from the Bahamas and from the Lousy Bank are
also worth mention.
122 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
PoRIFERA.
The total number of accessions is 274, of which 90 were
presented, 3 purchased, and 181 received in exchange; the more
important are :—
90 mounted preparations of Norwegian Si ae of the A. M.
Norman collection; presented by L. R. Crawshay, Esq.
181 specimens and preparations from the Indian Ocean and
Ceylon, including many types; received in exchange from Prof.
A. Dendy, F.R.S.
5 specimens from Lousy Bank; presented by the Ministry of
Agriculture and Fishenes.
PROTOZOA.
The accessions number 710, including 706 slides of Rhizopoda,
Heliozoa and Infusoria, including many types and other speci-
mens described by Dr. E. Penard; purchased.
Summary of the Acquisitions in the Department of Zoology
during 1920.
BLE T RES Purchases.|Exchanges. cotestions| Totals,
Mammalia (General)... | (2 GETS: || 164 16 | 323 2,178
Masala Aa eee eid 8 | _ — _— 8
(Skeletons) etacea 50 | — —_ — 50
Other Mammals. 3. | — — | —_ 3
Banat we eo ee Ss 766 ashley of Boe 5,540
Nests 2 — — — 2
see aeit oi Me ee ees ee ber = bs oe bee 1,333
Skeletons ere ust 10 — — _ 10
Domesticated animals es 12 — -- | — 12
Reptilgass. sei Gis eh ut lee ere 64 age Ft Ae 1,833
Batrachia nee art Cee 1,449 24 — — 1,473
Pisces... sree iiss ae 1,400 24 184 224 1,832
Tunicata ae so ae 6 8 = — 14
Mollusca sc Se spall aia 2,066 —= — 39,298
Myriopoda aes aide fd 24 — — — 24
Arachnida ae an Se 654 — ~- — 654
‘Crustacea aes op tag 520 52 16 — 588
Pycnogonida ... ses noe 6 6 — — 12
Echinoderma ... ae 93 13 >| — 108
Chezeto oda, ‘ete. 45q} 62 —_— | —_ — 62
Vermes Parasitic Worms. is 627 — | — | — 627
Brachiopoda _... nae Sel 42 = — — 42
Polyzoa... ee sac ae Dlr 5 8 | — 24
‘Coelenterata ... re oe 52 9 12>! — 73
Porifera... sisi ie ase 90 3 181 | — 274
Protozoa cae = ar aes 4 706 — — 710
Totals ... “eel eDleZod 3,910 466 1,155 56,784
The following donors presented specimens to the Department
of Zoology during the year 1920:—
Abhakara of Chumpon, Prince Albany Museum, Grahamstown
Agriculture and Fisheries, Allen, Major W. H.
Ministry of ’ Andrews, Dr. C. W., ¥.8.8.
Aharoni, I. Austen, Major E. E., p.s.o.
DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOG..
- .Australasian “Antarctic Expedi-
tion
Baker, Mrs. E.
Baker, E, C. Stuart
Balston, Miss E. M.
Barclay, F. H.
Barnard, T. T.
Barraud, Capt. P. J.
Bates, G. L.
Baylis, H. A.
_Bearpark, A. F.
Beeson, C. F. C,
Bennett, A. G.
Berlese, Prof. A.
Besant, E.
Billard, Prot. A.
Blackett, N. A.
Blaine, Gilbert
Blair, KG.
Blair, W. N., Jun.
Blake, Ralph
Blanc, Monsieur
Blane, Brigadier-General C. F.,
C.M.G.
Blundell, E. G.
Board of Trade
Boase, P. M.
Bombay Natural History
Society
Bosworth, Dr. T. O.
Boulenger, Dr. C. L.
Bowring, Col. F. S., c.3.
Brabourne, Lord
Brand, Commander J., R.N.
Brooke, H. C.
Brooks, C. J.
Brown, A. W.
Brown, G. F.
Bruch, Dr. C.
Bryan, B.
Bryant, Mrs. E. P.
Buist, Capt. T, P.
Bunting, R. H. E.
Burnup, H. C.
Burr, Malcolm
Buxton, Capt. P. A., R.a.M.c.
‘Candler, C.
‘Cardinall, A. W.
‘Carter, H.
‘Cheesman, Major R. E.
‘Christy, Major C.
Clark, R. S.
123
Clark Maxwell, Rev. Preben-
dary
Clarke,
C.B:
Collins, W. L.
Colombo Museum
Congo Museum, Tervueren
Connolly, Major M.
Cooke, Rev. Dr. A. H.
Cooke, Dr. W. E.
Corfield, Mrs. Wilmot
Cosens, Capt. C. P.
Cosens, Col.
Cotton, Dr’ Hse P;
Cousens, H. S.
Crampton, G. C.
Crawshay, L. R.
Cunnington, Dr. W. A.
Dalton, William, and Sons
Davison, Capt. J. F.
Dawson, Guy H.
Delachaux, Th.
Demidoff, H.H. Prince E.
Devanesen, D. W.
Dobb, De. Fa.
Duncan, C. C.
Dukinfield Jones, E.
Durban Museum
Eastern and Associated Tele-
graph Companies
Egyptian Zoological Service
Entomology, Imperial Bureau
of
Falkland Islands, His Excel-
lency the Governor of
Federated Malay States
Museums
Fell, Capt. M. E.
Fenton, E. W.
Flower, Major S. S.
Forbes, A., the late, c.S.1.
Forbes, Dr. H. O.
Forrest, Viner
Fox, Sir F.
Kryer, 0... We
Fuller, Capt: A.W. F.
Gabriel, C. J.
Garman, Dr. S.
Gibson, Mrs. Ernest
Gilchrist, Dr. J. D. F.
Godman, Miss E.
Gold Coast Colony, Department
of Agriculture
Col. Stephenson RK.,
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Goodfellow, W.
Gosse, Dr. P.
Graham, Major Claude
Gray, Melville
Griffith, F. L.
Gunstone, E. F.
Gurney, R.
Haagner, A. K.
Hadden, N. G.
Hall, Mrs. E. M.
Hamilton, C. A.
Hamilton, Major J. Stevenson
Hedley, C.
Henderson, J. G.
Herbert, E. G.
Herlofson, C. F.
Hess, Dr. Alois
Hickson, Prof. S. J., F.R.s.
Hillier, Dr. W. T.
Hindle, Dr. E.
Horst, cA. 8:
Hirst, Dr. L. F.
Hodson, A.
Hogan, F.
Hopkinson, Dr. E.
Hornby, A. H.
Howell, EH. B.
Illingworth, Mrs.
Imperial Bureau of Entomology
.Imperial College of Science
Imperial Institute, The Direc-
tor
Iredale, T.
Jessop, Lt.-Commander J. de
Bey DiS2015 RIN:
Jewell, Miss F.
Jobson, W. P.
Jones, A. E.
Kaburaki, Dr. T.
Kendrick, P.
Kinnear, N. B.
Klein, S. T.
Kloss, C. Boden
Knutsford, Lady
La Touche, J. D. |
Lane, Lt.-Col. Clayton, m.p.
Lange, Alex.
Larken, Major P. M.
Lataste, F.
Leonard, J. H.
Leigh, Capt. J. Hamilton
Longstaff, Mrs.
ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
Loveridge, A.
Lowe, W. P.
Luddington, Miss E.
Lynes, Capt. H., c.B., R.N.
McFie, Dr. J. .
McNeill, M.
Mair 2:
Mallock, Mrs. L. Raymond
Manchester Museum, Keeper of
Manuelle, Miss
Marley, H. W. Bell
Marriott, Alfred L.
Marriott, Brig.-Gen. John
Marsham, R.
Marston, R. B.
Martin and Archer, Messrs.
Maxwell, M.
Maxwell-Lefroy, Prof. H.
Maynard, G.
Meggitt, F. J.
Meinertzhagen, Col. R.
Methuen, the Hon. P. A.
Metzelaar, Dr. J.
Miller, L. J.
Ministry of Agriculture and
Fisheries
Montague, Mrs.
Murrell, H. C.
Nairobi Museum
Natal Government Museum
National Museum of Wales
Nutting, Prot. C. C-
OQmer-Cooper, J.
Owen, J. H.
Palaccio, C.
Parad Museum
Parisi, B.
Patmore, Capt. F. J.
Pavlovié, Prof. P. &
Pearl, Rea
Peck, Mrs.
Peile, Lt.-Col. A. Jagat
Philipps, Capt. J. H., M.c.
Phillips, W. W. A.
Pitman, Capt. C. R. S.
Pollard, A.
Pollen, Miss A.
Portal, Major M.
Porter, H. W.
Potts, F. A.
Poulton; Prof. EH. B%, FsRase
Procter, Miss J. B.
*
DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY.
Railliet, Prof. A.
Rao: Cs Bo N-
Rasmussen, J.
Reinwaldt, E.
Renouf, L. P. W.
Rhodes, Col. J. E.
Rhynehart, J. G.
Ritchie, Dr. James
Ritchie, J., Jun.
Robinson, H. C.
Robinson, R.
Robson, G. C.
Rogers, C. G.
Rowland Ward Bequest,
Trustees of the
Royal Botanie Gardens, Kew,
Director of
Royal College of Surgeons
Rush, E. W.
Rushton, W.
Russell, C. E.
Ruthven, Dr. A. G.
Sabellum Trading Co., Ltd.
St. Quimtin, "W.\H.: 2
Sandwith, Major L.
Scott-Macfie, J. W.
Scott, Mrs. Ross
Seth-Smith, L. M.
Sharman, Lt.-Col. Erie H.
Shaw, Rev. A.
Sheppard, P. A.
Sheringham, H. T.
Sherrin, T. V.
pikes, Fy H:
Sloan, Miss M. V.
Smith, C.
Smith, Dr. H. Hammond
Smith, Dr. Malcolm
South Africa, Government of
the Union of
South Africa, Union of, Veter-
inary Department
South African Museum
Sowerby, A. de C.
Staadt, J. L.
Stammwitz, P.
Stelfox, A.
Stockley, Major C. H.
Strafford, Rt. Hon. Cora, Coun-
tess of
Wellcome
125
Sviridenko, Dr. P. A.
Terrot, R.
Thomas, Oldfield, F.R.s.
Thomas, P. Haig
Thompson, I. Tyler
Trompson, Major W.
Thomson, Prof. J. A.
Thomson, J. W.
Thomson, R. M.
Ticehurst, C. B.
Tomlin, J. R. le B.
Transvaal Museum
Tresidder, Dr. M. E.
Trevor, Major W.
Uganda Natural History
Society, The Secretary
U.S. Departmentof Agriculture
University Museum of Zoology,
Cambridge
Unwin, E. E.
Varian, Capt. H. E.
Varriale, Capt.
Venning, Lt.-Col. F. E. W.
Wall, Lt.-Col. F.
Waterston, J.
Wavrin, Marquis de
Weber, Prof. Max
Wellcome Bureau of Scientific
Research, Director-in-Chief
Tropical Research
Laboratory, Khartoum ;
West Australian Museum,
Director of
Wheeler, J. L.
Whistler, H.
White, E. E.
Whitehouse, R. H.
Whymper, L. S.
Wilmer, Col. W.
Wilson, Mrs.
Wilson Barker, Commander
Sine). Rap de NaR:
Wintle, Brother W. J.
Witte,.G. F. de
Wolseley, Capt. R.
Wood, Rodney C.
Yorke, Prof. Warrington, M.D.
Zoological Society of London
Zoological Survey of India
126 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
VI.—Economic Zoology.
The main work of the Department, the determination, con-
servation and arrangement of collections of animals, is the
foundation of economic research, which depends on a knowledge
of species and their distribution. This is more particularly
evident in the case of groups such as the Parasitic Acari and
Parasitic Worms, each of which has occupied the full time of
an assistant. Museum work on Fishes and other marine animals
is closely related to fishery development, and collections dealt
with during the year include one from a new British fishing
ground, received from the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries,
and others sent for determination by the fishery authorities in
Natal.
Members of the staff have answered many enquiries on
economic subjects and have determined a number of specimens.
sent in connection, with economic work; the following are
examples : —
I. Mamata.
Bats which attacked a grove of Araucaria in the Gold Coast
Colony, stripping the trees of their bark, were determined as
the common fruit Bat, Eidolon helvum.
Information was given as to the possibility of establishing
trade in the skins of West African Otters.
Rats and Mice, in relation to the public health and general
economics, have again received much attention. Information
and advice have been given in response to requests received from
many public bodies and private individuals.
II. Moxzusca.
A large number of Shipworms and other marine Mollusca
destructive to timber have been determined for a Committee of
the Institution of Civil Engineers which is conducting an inquiry
into this subject, and a report on a part of the collection has
been published.
Advice was given with regard to water-pipes choked by the
growth of Mussels.
The operculum of a Gastropod is the source of a native dye
extensively used and traded in E. Africa; the species was deter-
mined,
Advice has been given in connection with work on tropical
diseases in the West Indies.
Several determinations of Molluscs injurious to crops, trees,
etc., have been made for the Imperial Bureau of Entomology.
Applications for specimens of the Gastropods concerned in
the transmission of Schistosomiasis (= Bilharziasis) having been
received, steps were taken to obtain a supply, and a new form,
acting as intermediate host, was discovered.
III. ARacunipa.
Mites (Carpoglyphus anonymus) infesting jam; the species
was determined and advice was given.
Furniture Mites (Glycyphagus domesticus) infesting houses;
advice and information were given.
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A Mite (/'yroglyphus longior), infesting larder, was deter-
mined and advice was given.
A Mite (Tyroglyphus longior), destroying packets of egg-
powder in shops, was determined and advice was given.
A Mite (Pygmephorus tarsalis, sp.n.), found in very large
numbers on the surface of cultivated mushrooms, was described.
A Mite (Aleurobius farine), found in the feces of miners
suffering from ankylostomiasis, was determined.
An enquiry on the habits of ‘“‘ Harvest Bug ”’ (Leptus autumn-
alis) was answered.
Poultry Mites were determined for the U.S. Department of
Agriculture.
A Mite (Liponyssus bursa), found on a Chinese patient at
Héko-t6 Island, Formosa, was determined.
IV. Crustacea.
Marine Isopoda destructive to timber have been studied and
a report has been prepared for publication.
Woodlice reported to be damaging Mushroom-beds have been
determined.
V. Worms.
Human parasites, and parasites of domestic animals, have
been named on several occasions, and enquiries from numerous
correspondents, including various Public Health Officers and
agricultural institutions, have been answered.
Assistance has been given to the Wellcome Bureau of Scien-
tific Research, in connection with work on the parasites of rats.
VI. Ca@LenTERATA.
Correspondence took place between the Museum and the
Imperial Institute with reference to possible economic uses for
the ‘‘ Organ. Pipe’’ coral T'ubipora.
VII.—Students and Visitors.
‘The number of visits paid to the Zoological Department
during the year 1920 by students and other persons requiring
assistance or information amounted to 8,973. This number in-
cludes the visits paid by students holding tickets entitling them
to do special work in the Exhibition Galleries.
In the 10 previous years the numbers were as follows, in-
cluding from 1910 to 1912 the visits to the Entomological Sec-
tion, which was made a separate Department in 1913 :—
7,459 in the year 1919.
5,903 y 1918.
6,314 Pe 1917.
7,018 al 1916.
8,020 ee 1915.
9,235 a 1914.
9,982 a 1913.
12,564 45 1912.
12,175 ub A
12,443 sie 1910.
C. Tate Regan.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENTOMOLOGY.
I.—Arrangement and Conservation.
Exhibition Series—A few additional dissections, with illus-
trative drawings, have been added to the series in the Public
Insect Gallery, while in the North Hall the exhibits dealing
with Insect Pests of Tropical crops have been, in part, revised
and added to, and faded and worn specimens replaced.
Study Series.—In the Coleoptera the identification and re-
arrangement of the Carabide have made further progress, with
the help of Mr. H. E. Andrewes and other specialists. Oriental
species determined by Mr. Andrews, Australian species deter-
mined by Mr. T. G. Sloane, and Palearctic species determined by
Dr. Jeannel, have beén incorporated. The Staphylinide have
also been considerably expanded and arranged, and important col-
lections of species named or described by Dr. M. Cameron incor-
porated. A large collection of Erotylide from Indo-China made
by M. Vitalis de Salvaza has been named, and numerous species
described as new. A number of West Indian crop-pests be-
longing to the genus. Lachnosterna have been described, and
revisions of the Melononthine genera ELctinohoplia and Dichelo-
morpha have also been prepared for, publication. Mr. G. E-
Bryant has incorporated the collection of Australian Phytophaga
made by him, finished the incorporation of the Halticine, and
determined several collections. Work on the Mordellide and
Meloide has also been continued, the paleearctic species of these
families being arranged, together with Camaria and allied
genera of Tenebrionide. Collections of Heteromera from Meso-
potamia, Syria, Macedonia, Tonkin, and the Philippine Islands
have been determined and incorporated. The Heteromera of the
Dollman Collection from Rhodesia have also been worked out
and incorporated.
In the Lepidoptera the expansion, rearrangement, and catalo-
guing of the family Hesperidz, sub-family Pamphiline, of the
Rhopalocera has been continued, all accessions, especially those
of the Godman-Salvin Collections, being incorporated in the
process; a certain amount of similar work has been done with
the Lycznidae, sub-family Thecline. The Dollman Collection
has been worked out, all available duplicates required for the
General Collection have been incorporated, and a paper pre-
pared. The collections made by Mr. Godfrey in Siam have been
worked out with his co-operation, and a selection comprising
nearly every known Siamese species and some 30 Types has been
made from them for the Museum and a paper on the collections got
out. Most of the numerous minor accessions in all families re-
ceived during the year have been incorporated, and a number of
collections have been identified in exchange for specimens. Copies
have been made of Plotz’s unpublished figures of (unidentified)
Hesperide, from copies kindly lent by Col. Swinhoe. A card
index has been started of all described Rhopalocera for reference
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purposes, and the years 1907 to 1916 nearly completed. Mr.
H. T. G. Watkins has given considerable assistance by voluntarily
rearranging the Pierine genera Pieris, Colias, and Gonepteryz,
and incorporating all accessions at the same time.
In the Heterocera the classification and rearrangement of the
Anerastiine have been continued, the Dioptide rearranged, and
the collection of the Lasiocampide expanded. A large collection
of moths made by Mr. E. J. Godfrey in Siam has been worked
out.
In the Tineina and Pterophorina much unarranged material
has been catalogued, determined and incorporated, and types
and typical material have been identified and labelled. The
large collection of separata presented to the Walsingham Library
by Sir George F. Hampson has been catalogued and the exact
references indicated (over 4,000).
In the Diptera the African Tipulide, determined by Dr. C. P.
Alexander, and the exotic Psychodide, determined by M. A.
Tonnoir, have been received back and reincorporated; the large
collection of exotic Anthomyiide has been sent to Mr. J. R.
Malloch for determination; the collection of British Rhyphide,
Psychodide, Ptychopteride and Limnobiine has been ar-
ranged; the spirit collection of Dipterous larve and adults has
been rearranged in filing cabinets. A series of Tabanide,
chiefly from Africa and North Russia, has been worked out,
described and incorporated. A series of named Nearctic and
Neotropical Muscoidea, received in exchange from the United
States National Museum, has been labelled and incorporated,
while a small series of economically important Australian Calli.
phorine and Muscine has been determined and also incor-
porated. A large number of miscellaneous accessions have also
been made to the General Collection. The official ‘‘ Instructions
for Collectors,’’ Nos. 4, 5, 6, and 7, have been revised and
edited (for a new edition of ‘‘ Handbook for Collectors’’), while
during the year “‘ A Handbook of British Mosquitoes’’ has been
published.
In the Hymenoptera the parasitic families Chalcidide and
Haltichellide have been arranged, and the Agaonide and Kury-
tomidze partially completed. Work has also been done on
isolated genera belonging to various families. In the Ichneu-
monoidea the Australian genus Pecilocryptus has been arranged
and monographed in conjunction with Mr. R. E. Turner.: The
African genus Onevlella has also been arranged. Several col-
lections of general Hymencptera—particularly from Eastern War
areas—have been determined. Parasites of the Frit-fly, Wheat
Pests, Forest Pests, pests affecting the Cabbage and Turnip,
Calliphora, Musca, and Glossina, have been determined and
described. In the Tenthredinide the Rev. F. D. Morice has
completed the rearrangement of the family, and Prof. T. D. A.
Cockerell has kindly assisted in incorporating a set of Apide
presented by the United States National Museum.
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130 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
In the Rhynchota the incorporation of the Distant Collection
has been continued and completed, and named collections of
American Tingide and Aradidz have been incorporated. Many
minor collections from various localities have beew similarly dealt
with. In the Coccide, collections from various parts of the
world have been worked out, and good progress has been made
with the rearrangement of the family. In the Aphide and
Aleurodide, many small collections have been determined and
incorporated.
In the Orthoptera valuable help in the arrangement and
identification of species and genera was received during the second
half of the year trom Mr. B. Uvaroff, Assistant in the Imperial
Bureau of Entomology. :
Mr. Hetbert Campion, also of the Imperial Bureau, has
voluntarily rendered considerable service from time to time by
the determination and description of Odonata.
In the Thysanoptera most of the unmounted material of the
unnamed microscopic species has been transferred to slides, ready
for determination.
In the Mallophaga and Anoplura the Denny and General
Collections have been mounted on slides for study purposes, and
are now being revised and catalogued. Several odd collections
have also been worked out.
IMPERIAL BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY.
The Collections of the Entomological Department continue
to benefit by the work done by the Imperial Bureau of Entomo-
logy. During the year this organisation presented some 8,000
specimens, mostly named, and including the types of 71 new
species. The assistance given by members of the staff of the
Bureau in naming and arranging parts of the Museum collection
has been referred to above. As a considerable part of the work
of the Bureau is carried on, and needs to be carried on, within
the Museum, it is much to be regretted that it has not yet been
found possible to increase the accommodation provided for the
work of its staff in the Museum. The Entomological Depart-
ment itself suffers equally through want of the necessary space.
Il. Duplicates and Exchanges.
(a) Duplicates.
The following Institutions have been presented with dupli-
cate specimens:—Glasgow Veterinary College; Hope ~Depart- |
ment of Zoology, Oxford; Marischal College, University of
Aberdeen; Musée d’Histoire Naturelle, Brussels; Muséum d’ His-
toire Naturelle, Paris; War Office Entomological Laboratory,
Sandwich, Kent. The following gentlemen, who have rendered
service to the Museum by naming specimens, have been presented
with duplicate specimens:—Mr. H. E. Andrewes, Major F. C.
Fraser, Dr. K. M. Heller, Dr. R. Jeannel, Mr. K. J. Morton,
Rev. R..P. Longinos Navas, 8.J., and M. A. d’Orchymont.
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(6) Exchanges.
Exchanges of specimens have been carried out with the
following :-—Leyland Stanford Junior University, California ;
Musée d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris; United States Ne ational
Museum; University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge; Mr. C. P.
Alexander ; Dr. G. Enderlein; Dr. E. W. Ferguson : Dr. R.
Frey ; Rev. F. D. Morice; M. A. 8. Nicolay; Prof. H. M.
Parshley; M. Maurice Pic; ‘Lord cae a Prof. Y. Sjéstedt ;
Dra Skinner; Dr. Rk. J. ‘Tillyard; Mr. .G. Watkins; Mr.
Sydney Whicher.
III. Departmental Library.
As the Library has continued to be worked in conjunction
with that of the Zoological Department, particulars in reference
to it will be found included under the corresponding head in
the return made by the Keeper of Zoology.
lV. Publications.
In addition to the official publications issued by the Trustees
(see pp. 92-94), the following papers have been published in
connection with the different branches of the collection.
Coleoptera.
By G. J. Arrow :— :
A Contribution to the Classification of the Coleopterous
fet, Endomychide. Trans. Ent, Soc. Lond., 1920,
pp. 1-83.
A list of the Endomychid Coleoptera of Indo-China, with
Descriptions of new Species. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist.,
(9) 5, 821-826.
A remarkable new Genus of Lamellicorn Beetles. bid. (9)
6, pp. 431-434.
A peculiar new Genus of Australian Beetles. Jbid., pp.
434-437.
A new Genus of Clavicorn Beetles. Jbid., pp. 437-440.
On the Oriental Members of the Group Macrodactylides
(Melolonthide). Jbzd., pp. 441-455.
By K. G. Buarr.
Further Notes on the Fabrician Types of Heteromera in the
Banks Uollection. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (9) 5, pp.
153-163.
Notes on the Coleopterous Genus Aschicians Pasc., with deserip-
tions of two new species from the Philippine Islands.
Ent. Mo. Mag. (38) 6, pp. 183-1385.
Notes on. the Australian Coleopterous Genera Palestra, Cast.,
Tmesidera, Westw., and Palestrida, White. Jbid.,
pp. 28-32.
Notes on the Australian Genus Cestrinus, Er. (Tenebrionide)
and some allied Genera. Proc. Linn. Soc. New South
Wales. Vol. 44., pp. 529-535.
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132 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
By G. C. Cuampion :—
Notes on Various African and Asiatic Species of Hapalochrus,
Er., with an account of their accessory male characters.
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (9) 6, pp. 177-201, 249-266,
2 305-327, 537-539.
n some Kastern Xylophilids (Coleoptera). Ibid. (9) 5, pp.
Sear ylop (Coleoptera) (9) 5, pp
Some new Coleoptera from Costa Rica. Ent. Mo. Mag. (3)
6, pp. 220-224. ;
Lepidoptera.
By Sir G. F. Hampson :—
On the New Genera and Species of Lepidoptera Phalene,
with the Characters of two New Families. Nov. Zool. 26,
pp. 2538-282, 1920.
New Moths collected by Mons. A. Avinoff in W. Turkestan
during his journeys in 1909-1912. Trans. Ent. Soc.
Lond. 1920, pp. 481-484.
Diptera.
By F. W. Epwarpbs :—
Mosquito Notes. Bull. Ent. Res. Vol. 10, Pt. 2, pp. 129-187.
Notes on the Mosquitoes of Madagascar, Mauritius and Ré-
union Jbid. Vol. II., Pt. 2, pp. 183-138.
On the British Species of Semuliwum.—2. The early stages,
with additions and corrections to Part 1. Jbid. xi., pt.
3, pp. 211-246.
A new T'richocera from Siberia. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (9)
5, pp. 431-482. °
On the use of the generic name Ceratopogon, Meigen (Diptera,
Chironomide). Jbid. (9) 6, pp. 127-180..
Scent-organs (?) in female midges of the Palpomyia group.
Ibid. (9) 6, pp. 865-368.
Dimorphism in the antennze of a male midge. Ent. Mo.
Mag. (3) 6, pp. 135-186.
Some records of predaceous Ceratopogonine (Diptera). Jbid.,
pp. 203-205.
The British Chaoborine and Dixine (Diptera, Culicide).
Ibid., pp. 264-270.
A new British Mosquito. Scottish Naturalist, pp. 91-92.
May-June, 1920.
The nomenclature of the parts of the male hypopygium of
Diptera Nematocera, with special reference to mosqui-
toes. Ann. Trop. Med. Vol. 14, pp. 23-40.
By Dr. C. P. ALEXANDER :—
An undescribed species of Ptychoptera from W. Africa (Pty-
chopteride, Diptera). Entomologist, 53, pp. 101-102.
Undescribed African Crane-flies in the British Museum
(Tipulide, Diptera). Canadian Entom., June, 1920,
pp. 145-160.
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Undescribed species of African Crane-flies in the collection of
the British Museum (Natural History): Tipulidae,
Diptera. Pt. 1. Sub-family Limnobiine. Ann. Mag.
Nat. Hist. (9) 6, pp. 1-44.
By M. A. Tonnorr : —
Notes sur quelques Psychodide africains. Revue Zool.
Africaine, 8, pp. 127-147,
By J. R. Mattocr : — .
Some new species of the genus Lonchea (Diptera, Lonche-
ide). Canadian Entom. 52, pp. 246-247.
By Masor E. E. Austen: —
1. A Contribution to Knowledge of the Tabanide of Pales-
tine. Bull. Ent. Res. 10. Pt. 3, pp. 277-821. Figs.
1-18.
2. The Percy Sladen Trust Expedition to the Indian Ocean
in 1905 and 1907-1909, under Mr. J. Stanley Gardiner,
MA Diptera: (Vabanidee).2b¢d., 1° Pt. “Ty “pp.
43--45. |
3. Notes on the Nomenclature of Certain African Tabanide
(Sub-family Pangoniine), with Descriptions of a New
Genus and New Species. Jbid., 11. Pt. 2, pp. 189-162.
Hymenoptera.
By R. E. Turner and J. WatTerston :—
A Revision of the Ichneumonid Genera Labiwm and Pecilo-
eryptus. Proc. Zool. Soc., 1920, pp. 1-26.
By J. WaATERSTON : —
Notes on Fig Insects, including Descriptions of three new
Species and a new Blastophagine Genus. Trans. Ent.
Soc. Lond., pp. 128-136.
A new Blastophagine Genus and Species from E. Africa.
Ent. Mo. Mag., 3rd ser., 6, pp. 197-200.
On a new polyembryonic Encyrtid (Chalcidoidea) Copidosoma
tortricis, sp.n., bred from the Strawberry Tortrix moth.
Ann. Appl. Biol. 7, pp. 1-5.
By R. E. Turner : —
On Indo-Chinese Hymenoptera collected by R. Vitalis de
Salvaza. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (9) 5, pp. 84-98.
Notes on the [chneumonide in the British Museum—3. On -
anew Tasmanian Species. Jbid., pp. 150-151.
Notes on Fossorial Hymenoptera. On new Species in the
British Museum. Jbid., pp. 265-271.
Rhynchota.
By W. L. Distant : —
Cicadide from Indo-China. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (9) 5,
pp. 336-337.
134 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
Some Undescribed Ethiopian Cicadide. J/bid., pp. 369-376.
Rhynchota from New Caledonia. Jbid. (9) 6, pp. 143-164.
Descriptions of a new Genus and Species of Cicadide from
Cuba. Jbid., pp. 455-456.
Rhynchota from New Caledonia. Jbid., pp. 456-470.
On a small collection of Homoptera from British Guiana.
The Entomologist, 53, pp. 124-126.
Description of a New Species of Neotropical Cicadide.
Lbid., p. 169:
By F. Larne :—
On the Genus Atheroides, Halid.(Aphide), Ent. Mo. Mag.
(3) 6, pp. 38-46.
Two Species of Hupterye (Homoptera) new to Britain. Tbid.,
pp. 196-197.
Two Species of British Aphides. bid. 5, pp. 272-274.
Neuroptera.
By H. Campion : —
Some new or little-known Gomphine Dragon-fiies from South
America. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (9) 6, pp. 130-141.
V.—Acquisitions.
The number of specimens added to the Insect Collection
during the year is 94,353, made up as shown in the following
table : —
| | | ]
Donations. | Purchases. | Exchanges. _— Totals.
Coleoptera Ane ee Sh 50,927 707 212 51,846
Lepidoptera... Bac sae 6,689 1,059 239 1 Gated
Hymenoptera ... be wad 15,356 _— — | 15,356
Diptera ... eu) Pg Meee 8.655 — | 414 9,069
Rhynchota a aos 25 NON 4,395 | 20 | 7,386
Orthoptera ae fot ee 895 — — 895
Neuroptera ie aoe Ha 733 —— | 79 | &12
Other orders... Son ssl 670 — | = | 670
Larve, pup, ete. BAS SA] 332 — | _ | 332
87,228 6,161 | 964 | 94,353
The most important of these accessions are the following:
Various localities.
28,250 Coleoptera, mainly Oriental and South American;
presented by G. E. Bryant, Esq.
8,004 specimens of various orders; presented by the Imperial
Bureau of Entomology.
1,388 specimens, mainly Tigberas presented by Dr. W. C. (.
Pakes.
421 specimens of various orders; presented by Dr. P. A.
Buxton.
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416 specimens, mainly Coleoptera; presented by G. C.
Champion, Esq.
The tenth instalment of the Distant collection, containing
4,395 Rhynchota and 705 Coleoptera.
Europe.
965 British Diptera and larve; presented by Y. W. Edwards,
Esq.
905 specimens of various orders from Macedonia and Britain ;
presented by J. Waterston, Esq.
579 specimens of various orders from Finland and Esthonia;
presented by Bassett Digby, Esq.
543 British Diptera ; ote ter by W. R. Ogilvie-Grant, Esq.
408 Rhopalocera from South France and Switzerland; pre-
sented by F. Pinhey, Esq.
400 Lepidoptera from Crete and Macedonia, collected by the
late P. D. Montague, Esq.; presented by Mrs. Montague.
300 British Diptera; presented by Miss Ricardo.
200 British Rhopalocera; received in exchange.
500 British Lepidoptera; purchased.
Asia.
9,413 Hymenoptera Aculeata from India, including about 200
types; presented by Lt.-Colonel C. G. Nurse.
1,292 specimens, mainly Coleoptera, from Indo-China; pre-
sented by Mons. R. Vitalis de Salvaza.
700 Coleoptera from Celebes and Japan; presented by H. J.
Carter, Esq.
558 specimens, mainly Coleoptera from Siam; presented by
E. J. Godfrey, Esq.
Ml 500 Rhopalocera from Ceylon; presented by W. Ormiston,
sq.
479 Coleoptera from Formosa; presented by Dr. T. Shirakt.
346 specimens of various orders from Sumatra ; presented by
C.J. Brooks, Esq.
311 eae from Indo-China; presented by W. L. Distant,
Esq.
309 specimens, mainly Coleoptera, from Philippine Islands
and Borneo; presented by Prof. C. Ff. Baker.
232 specimens, mainly Diptera, from Federated Malay States;
presented by Dr. H. P. Hacker.
202 Rhopalocera from Darjiling; presented by Capt. E. C.
Linton, R.A.M.C.
169 Rhopalocera from West Sumatra; presented by the
Federated Malay States Museum.
Africa.
6,795 specimens of various orders from Cape Peninsula ; pre-
sented by R. BE. Turner, Esq.
475 specimens of various orders from Nigeria and Sierra
Leone; presented by Watee ae: P. Lowe, Esq.
136 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
262 Lepidoptera Tineina from Madagascar ; presented by Lord
Rothschild, F.R.S. :
America.
710 specimens of various orders from the West Indies; pre-
sented by W. E. Broadway, Esq.
600 ‘Heterocera fnom Jamaica; presented by Dr. F. W.
Jackson.
572 specimens, mostly Lepidoptera from California and
Brazil; presented by E. Dukinfield Jones, Esq.
400 Diptera from North and Central America; presented by
Dr. L. O. Howard.
328 specimens of various orders from Heuador; presented by
Gilbert Hammond, Esq. __
209 specimens, chiefly Diptera, from the West Indies; pre-
sented by St. George Gray, Esq.
150 Heterocera from South America; presented by W. J.
Kaye, Esq.
150 Diptera from United States of America; in exchange.
160 Rhynchota from North America; in exchange.
468 Lepidoptera from Honduras; purchased.
Australasia.
226 Coleoptera including many co-types; presented by A. M.
Lea, Esq.
VI. Economic Entomology.
Correspondence dealing with matters of an economic nature
has shown a very great increase over previous years. The en-
quiries have been very varied and of wide scope, those having
reference to pests of stored products and of wood predominating.
Where it was thought that correspondence would not be quite
satisfactory, visits were paid and examinations carried out on
the spot. The series illustrating injurious and beneficial insects
and the card catalogue of economic literature have been fre-
quently consulted by students. The economic series is expand-
ing rapidly, but progress is considerably hampered by lack of
space. Pamphlets on the Furniture Beetles and the House-fly
have been published, a new edition of the previous pamphlet on
the latter subject has been prepared, the one on Mosquitoes re-
vised, and one dealing with the Cockroach is on its way through
the press. :
Amongst the subjects on which information or advice has been
sought, and so far as possible given, the following may be
mentioned : —
COLHOPTERA,
(1) Woodworms.—Many pieces of damaged wood have been
received and reported upon. One of the most interest-
ing was a piece of Scots Pine from a City church
riddled with the botings of Xestobium tessellatum.
This species had not, hitherto, been suspected. of
attacking coniferous woods.
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(2) Anthrenus fasciatus, Hbst., destroying the bristles of
brushes from Alexandria.
(3) Necrobia rufipes, De G., destroying bundles of China
bristles.
(4) Dermestes vulpinus F., destroying hides arriving at
various seaports.
(5) Ceuthorrhynchus sulcicollis, the Turnip Gall-weevil.
Judged by the number of enquiries received regarding
it, this pest must have been causing severe damage
during the summer.
(6) Phaedon cochleariae, causing severe damage to Mustard
in several counties in the Kast of England.
(7) Phyllotreta undulata, P. nemorum, P. consobrina, P.
cruciferae, all injuring turnips. The first species
would appear to be the most serious and widespread.
(8) Meligethes aeneus, F., attacking turnips.
(9) 7 te te gabrieli, Ws., doing serious damage to Larch-
rees.
(10) Crepidodera aurata, and Galerucella lineola, ruining
osier beds.
(11) Anthonomus grandis (The Mexican Boll-weevil). Re-
quest for methods of control from Mexico.
(12) Longitarsus ater, F., causing serious injury to the Flax
industry in Ireland.
(13) Ptinus tectus. This species, once so rare and still a
comparatively recent arrival ‘in this country, has
become very widespread, and many cases of its damage
to food-stuffs have been reported during the year.
(14) Carpophilus hemipterus, frequently reported as damag-
ing dried fruits. |
(15) Cryptophaqus saginatus, Sturm., found in numbers in
Stilton cheese.
(16) Henoticus californicus, breeding in jam. The remedy
lay in keeping the jam free from mould.
(17) Calandra granaria, C. oryzae, Tribolium castaneum,
Rhizopertha dominica, Silvanus surinamensis, sSito-
drepa panicea, Trogostta mauritanica, all found in
grain. Many enquiries were received regarding these
species, several from warehousemen, many from
medical officers of health. Perhaps the most remark-
able case was that received from a firm of shipbrokers,
regarding C. oryzae, which appears to have swarmed
in such numbers in the hold of a sailing vessel carry-
ing maize that the ship had to put into the nearest
port.
LEPIDOPTERA.
(18) Hyponomeuta padella. This species was very prevalent
during the past summer, plum-trees being badly
attacked. Much work was entailed in consequence.
(19) Tortriz (Archips) lecheana, T. rosana, Argyresthia |
ephippella, all damaging plum-trees.
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(20) Lithocolletis messaniella Z., damaging ornamental
oaks. ;
(21) Tortriz viridana. The damage to oak-trees caused by
this species, though still severe, did not appear to be
quite so extensive as in the two previous years.
(22) Phyllocnistis suffusella, damaging the leaves of a valu-
able hybrid poplar in a nursery.
(23) Platyedra gossypiella, Saund. Information asked for
from Mexico and Java, as to the measures of control
adopted in Egypt and elsewhere.
(24) Kphestia elutella, HE. cautella, infesting cocoa-beans in
store and also in chocolate, cotton-bolls (Egypt),
stored cotton seeds (Madras), earth-nuts (Alexandria),
dates and stored apricots (Bagdad), pomegranate
(Cyprus), dates (Basra and Egypt), peas (Italy).
(25) Corcyra cephalonica, Stn., attacking stored cotton seeds
(Madras).
(26) Arenipses sabella, Hmpn., attacking dates in London,
probably imported from Algeria.
(27) Myelows ceratoniae, Z., attacking dates in Egypt.
(28) Tinea pellionella, damaging leather goods.
(29) Tineola biselliella, attacking skins (Cambridge), and
ostrich plumes (S. Africa).
DIPTERA.
(30) Phytomyza albiceps, mining and ruining the leaves of
Cinerarias.
(31) Calliphora erythrocephala, breeding in Stilton cheese.
(32) Drosophila melanogaster, breeding in stored fruit which
had been allowed to ferment. |
(33) Chloropisca notata, Musca autumnalis, Pollenia rudis,
Pyrellia eriophthalma, Fucomyia frigida, all causing
a nuisance on account of their numbers in houses.
RHYNCHOTA.
(34) Scaptocoris talpa, Champ., damaging sugar-cane in
Guatemala. .
35) Calocoris norvegicus, damaging flax in Ireland.
(36) Bugs infesting various Government hutments.
(37) Various species of green-fly attacking different plants in
Britain. The Plum Aphis (Aphis prunt) caused a very
great deal of damage in the early spring, but the
trees recovered well later in the year.
(38) Alewrodes vaporariorum, infesting greenhouses.
(39) Chermes cooleyi, attacking Douglas Firs in England.
This species threatens to become a very serious danger
to this tree in Britain.
MISCELLANEOUS.
(40) Rubber pests —Many enquiries by men taking up posts
on rubber plantations.
(41) Thrips.—Damaging various species of plants.
(42) Trichodectes subrostratus, infesting dogs.
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(43) Clothilla pulsatoria and Atropos divinatoria, swarming
in houses.
(4
4) Glycyphagus domesticus.—Many enquiries from up-
holsterers and householders.
(45) Tyroglyphus longior in dried fruits and packets of soup.
(46) Aleurobius farine in cheese and prepared flour.
(47) Earwigs, fleas and ants swarming in houses and consti-
tuting a nuisance.
(48) The protection of books against the ravages of insects
in the Tropics.
VII.—Students and Visitors.
The number of visits paid to the department during the year
by students and other persons seeking information or assistance
was 4,088.
C. J. Gahan.
140 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY.
I.—Arrangement and Conservation.
Mammalia (Galleries 1 and 2).—The bone implement from
Piltdown has been added to the exhibition in table-case 1, and
plaster casts of the fossil human skull from Talgai, Queensland,
have been mounted in pier-case 3.
The Lewis Abbott collection of mammalian remains from a
fissure at Ightham, Kent, has been incorporated, and a selection
of the more important specimens has been labelled and arranged
for exhibition in pier-case 2.
A skeleton of Canis dirus from the asphalt of California has
been mounted and placed in pier-case 3.
Plaster casts of cervical vertebre of Baluchithervum osborni
have been prepared and mounted in pier-case 8.
Number of specimens of Mammalia registered, 2,646.
Aves (Gallery 2).—A plaster cast of the skeleton of Diatryma
steint from the Lower Eocene of Wyoming, U.S.A., has been
mounted and temporarily placed for exhibition on the top of
wall-case 23.
An egg of Struthtolithus from China has been mounted in
case HE.
Number of specimens of Aves registered, 64.
Reptilia and Batrachia (Galleries 3, 4, 5, 11).—The slip cata-
logue has been continued, and the sections of Batrachia, Anomo--
-dontia and Dinosauria have been completed.
During the preparation of the slip-catalogue, the unexhibited
collections of Anomodontia and Dinosauria in the basement have
been examined and more satisfactorily arranged and labelled.
Wall-case 6, gallery 4, has been cleaned and rearranged to
admit some new bones of Jguanodon.
The carapace, plastron, and limbs of a large turtle, Protostega
gigas, from the Chalk of Kansas, have been prepared and mounted
in wall-case 18, gallery 5.
Number of specimens of Reptilia and Batrachia registered,.
1,628.
Pisces (Gallery 6).—The collection of Devonian fish-remains
from Granite Harbour, Antarctica, has been registered and
labelled.
The Mesozoic Elasmobranchii in table-cases 4-8 have been
revised and partly rearranged and re-labelled during the pre-
paration of the supplement to the Catalogue.
Selected series of teeth of the Eocene sharks, Odontaspts
elegans and O. macrota, have been mounted in table-case 6 to
illustrate their arrangement in the jaws.
All recent accessions have been registered and incorporated,
and the more important specimens have been mounted for exhi-
bition.
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The preparation of the fish-remains in drawers, to reduce the
specimens in size, is still in progress.
Number of specimens of Pisces registered, 200.
Mollusca (Galleries 7, 8, and Workroom).—The accessions
registered, labelled and incorporated include Cambrian and
Ordovician Gastropoda from Newfoundland (Spath coll.); Car-
boniferous Gastropoda and Lamellibranchia from Durham and
Newcastle (Trechmann and Hazzledine Warren colls.) ; Devonian
Gastropoda and Lamellibranchia from Iowa (Fenton coll.);
Oxfordian Lamellibranchia from Villers-sur-mer (Rakowski
coll.); Jurassic, Cretaceous, and Tertiary Lamellibranchia from
France (Lowe coll.); Cretaceous Lamellibranchia from Colorado
(Colorado Univ.), and from Kansas (Sternberg coll.); Albian
Lamellibranchia from Surrey (Tinne coll.); Tertiary Lamelli-
branchia from Italy (J. Wright coll.); Tertiary Gastropoda and
Lamellibranchia from British East Africa (J. Parkinson coll.) ;
Hocene Lamellibranchia from Flanders (Campbell Smith coll.);
Eocene Gastropoda from Egypt (Beadnell coll.); Miocene
Gastropoda and Lamellibranchia from Jamaica (Worthington
“Wilmer coll.); Pliocene Lamellibranchia from Corfu (Sordina
coll.), and Egypt (Petrie coll.); Post-Pliocene Gastropoda and
Lamellibranchia from Sardinia (Dehaut coll.); and Holocene
Gastropoda from Ightham, Kent (Lewis Abbott coll.).
Additions to the exhibited series of Gastropoda and Lamelli-
branchia include the holotype of Trechmannia trochiformis,
Longstaff, 1912, from the Carboniferous Limestone of Durham
(C. T. Trechmann coll.); Znoceramus intermedius from the
Chalk of Hunstanton, figured 1829, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist.,
vol. 11., p. 296; an example, three feet in diameter, of Jnoceramus
platinus from the Chalk of Kansas (Sternberg coll.); a series of
opalised fossils of Upper Cretaceous age from New South Wales,
described R. B. Newton, 1915, Proc. Malacol. Soc., vol. xi., pl. vi.
(St. John Thackeray bequest); and an example of Scala rugulosa
from the Miocene of Patagonia (Gostling coll.).
The accessions of Cephalopoda registered, labelled, and incor-
porated include Triassic Ammonoidea, Nautiloidea, and Belem-
noidea from Timor (Wanner coll.); Triassic Ammonoidea and
Nautiloidea from Bosnia (Hawelka coll.), the United States and
New Zealand (Trechmann coll.); Triassic and Jurassic Ammo-
noidea from Spitsbergen (Garwood and Gregory coll., W. T.
Reynolds coll.); Liassic Ammonoidea from Glamorganshire and
Liparoceras pseudostriatum from Lyme Regis (Trueman coll.) ;
Oxfordian Ammonoidea from Villers-sur-mer (Rakowski coll.) ;
Jurassic Belemnites and Cretaceous Scaphites from the United
States (Colorado Univ.); Cretaceous Ammonoidea from Nigeria
(Falconer, Kitson, and Temple colls.).
Additions to the exhibited series include Nautilus cf. daru-
pensis from the Turonian of Burghclere, Berks. (Withers coll.) ;
Hercoglossa aegyptiaca, from the Eocene of Mokattam (C. T.
Laylor coll.); Aturta atur: from the Miocene of Western Aus-
tralia, described by R. B. Newton, 1919. c
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The names of the specimens of Triassic Ammonites have been
revised and a large series placed on exhibition. A similar revision
of the Upper Lias Ammonites is in progress.
The slip-catalogues of the historical specimens and exhibited
specimens have been continued.
Number of Mollusca registered :—Cephalopoda, 1,987; Gas-
tropoda, 1,209; Lamellibranchia, 505. Total, 3,701.
Arthropoda (Gallery 8 and Workroom).—The accessions regis-
tered, labelled and incorporated include Cambrian Trilobites from
British Columbia (Cutler coll. and Walcott coll.), and from New-
foundland (Spath coll.); Middle Cambrian Arthropods from
British Columbia (Walcott coll. per Ward); Ordovician Ostra-
cods and Phyllocarids from Girvan, Ayrshire (Gray coll.); an
extensive series of Arthropods mainly from the Paleozoic Rocks
ot North America (G. J. Hinde coll.); Miocene Insects from
Florissant, Colorado (Cockerell coll.); Miocene (Amber) Insects
from Burma (Swinhoe coll.); Quaternary Cirripedes from Peru
(Bosworth coll.).
Oligocene and Carboniferous Insects, Jurassic Odonata,
Jurassic Decapods, and Carboniferous Millipedes have been
selected, re-registered where necessary, and despatched for deter-
mination by various specialists.
Tertiary Cirripedes from S. America, India, and New Zea-
land, Cretaceous Cirripedes from America and England, and
Jurassic Cirripedes from England, have been determined, ar-
ranged and labelled.
Additions have been made to the exhibited series of Ordo-
vician and Silurian Trilobites, of Tertiary Cirripedia, and of
Carboniferous and Tertiary Insects.
The slip-catalogues of exhibited specimens, of amber insects,
of new genera, and of additions to various series, have been
continued.
Number of specimens of Arthropoda registered, 2,310.
Echinoderma (Gallery 8).—The accessions registered, labelled
and incorporated include a large collection of Cystidea from the
Ordovician of Girvan (Gray coll.); Cystids and Crinoids from
the Lower Palaeozic Rocks of N. America (Ward); Blastoids
from the Devonian and Mississippian of the United States
(Greger coll. and Ward); Crinoids from various divisions of the
Mississippian series in the United States (T. A. Worthen coll.),
from the Burlington Limestone and St. Louis group of Mis-
sourl (Greger coll.), from the Carboniferous of Malahide, co.
Dublin (L. B. Smyth coll.), from the Trias of Bosnia (Hawelka
coll.), from the Turonian of Germany (Jaekel coll.), and from
the Senonian of Surrey (Withers coll.); Crinoids, Asteroids, and
Kchinoids from the Portlandian Hartwell Clay of Aylesbury
(Hollis coll.); Echinoids from the Jurassic of England (Corfield
eoll.), from the Chalk of France (Mullins coll.) and England
(Withers coll.), and from the Miocene of Anguilla and Antigua
(J. W. Gregory coll.).
The specimens, of Herpetocrinus from the Wenlock Lime-
stone have been revised, registered, and re-labelled. The revi-
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sion of the labels of the exhibited type-specimens of Echinoidea
has been completed; other Jurassic and Cretaceous Echinoids ot
England have been re-registered and re-labelled; and the whole
of the exhibited series of British Echinoids has been re-arranged.
Specimens illustrating some of the Girvan Cystids have been ex-
hibited. The revision of the Palzozoic Asteroidea continues.
Various Echinoderms preserved in pyrites have been treated and
soaked in melted paraffin to check decomposition.
The slip-catalogues of specimens studied or exhibited, of all
Blastoids, and of genera and species of other classes, have been
continued.
Number of specimens of Hchinoderma registered :—-EKchino-
idea, 297; Asteroidea, 19; Crinoidea, 442; Blastoidea, 90; Cys-
tidea, 599; Total, 1,447.
Annelida (Gallery 8 and Workroom).—The accessions regis-
tered, labelled and incorporated include specimens of Oéttoza,
Selkirkia, and Canadia trom the Middle Cambrian of British
Columbia (Walcott coll.); Tentaculites from the Ordovician,
Silurian, and Devonian of N. America (G. J. Hinde coll.) ; Con-
chicolites from the Silurian of Gotland (Bather coll.); Spirorbis
from the Upper Devonian of Iowa (Fenton coll.); Serpula from
the Oxfordian of Villers-sur-mer (Rakowski coll.). A number
of Tentaculites have been re-registered on their transference
from Mollusca.
A specimen of Protoscolex latus, a new Oligochaet from the
Lower Ludlow Beds, has been placed on exhibition.
The slip-catalogues of specimens exhibited and of genera
have been continued.
Number of specimens of Annelida registered, 111.
Brachiopoda (Gallery 8 and Workroom).—The accessions re-
gistered, labelled, and incorporated include specimens from the
Silurian of Newfoundland (Spath coll.); Devonian of China
(J. L. Smith coll.), India (Younghusband coll.), and the United
States (Fenton coll.); Carboniferous Limestone of Derbyshire
(Bather coll.) ; Mississippian of Missouri (Greger coll.); and the
Miocene of Malta (Mullins coll.).
Number of specimens of Brachiopoda registered, 645.
Polyzoa (Gallery 8 and Workroom).—Upper Devonian Poly-
zoa from North America (C. L. Fenton coll.), have been regis-
tered, labelled, and incorporated. ,
Number of Polyzoa registered, 85.
Anthozoa and Hydrozoa (Gallery 10 and Workroom).—
Paleozoic (mostly North American) Corals of the G. J, Hinde
coll.; Devonian Corals and Hydrozoa from North America (C. L.
Fenton coll.); Carboniferous Corals from Australia (Stanley
Smith coll.); and Hydrozoa from the Trias of Timor (Wanner
coll.); have been registered, labelled, and incorporated.
Number of Anthozoa and Hydrozoa registered, 2,288.
Porifera and Protozoa (Gallery 10).—Sponges from the G. J.
Hinde collection, mostly Cretaceous, have been registered and
incorporated.
Number of Porifera and Protozoa registered, 999.
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Plante (Gallery 10).-—A representative series of Tertiary and
Quaternary plants, including many specimens figured by Heer,
Ettingshausen and others, has been arranged and exhibited, with
printed labels, in wall-cases 10 and 11.
The Whymper collection'of Greenland plants has been sorted,
labelled, re-registered where necessary, and incorporated.
The extensive Httingshausen collection of Tertiary plants,
chiefly from Austria, has been re-registered, labelled, arranged
and indexed, and many of the specimens reduced in size, thereby
saving much space. The collection includes over 100 type and
figured specimens which had not previously been noted.
Eocene plants from Belgium. and the Paris basin have been
re-examined and sorted, and a commencement has been made
with the arrangement of the British Tertiary plants.
Other specimens registered, labelled and incorporated include
Miocene plants from Colorado (Cockerell coll.), slides of cocco-
spheres, etc. (G. J. Hinde coll.), and Jurassic and Tertiary
plants from Spitsbergen (Reynolds coll. and Gregory coll.).
Additions have been made to the collection of microscope-
slides by the cutting of sections of fossil woods and by the pre-
paration of leaf cuticles. The card index of fossil plants has
been extended.
Number of specimens of Plante registered, 1,243.
II.—Duplicates and Exchanges.
Duplicate fossils have been exchanged with the United States
National Museum, Washington; Prof. O. Jaekel, University of
Greifswald; and Dr. Robert Kidston, F.R.S.
ITIl.—Departmental Library.
The additions to the Library which have been registered,
stamped, catalogued, and press-marked, comprise 178 new works
and pamphlets, of which 56 were purchased and 122 presented;
1,005 parts of serials in progress, of which 169 were purchased
and 836 presented. 111 sheets of maps were acquired, 14 by
purchase and 97 by presentation. 7 photographs were presented.
43 volumes and pamphlets were obtained by transfer from other
Departments.
91 volumes have been bound, press-marked and returned to
the shelves. 829 geological maps have been mounted on linen,
and 220 pamphlets have been put into covers.
1,679 visits were made to the Library by students and others
during the year.
The following is a list of personal donors to the Library :-—
Andrews, Dr. C. W. Cockerell, Prof. T. D. A.
Bather, Dr. F. A. Dall, W. H., Esq.
Bell, A., Esq. Fischer, Dr. K.
Bensley, Dr. Freudenberg, Dr. W.
Blumer, Dr. E. Gonzaga de Campos, Dr.
Broom, Dr. R. Gray, Mrs. R.
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Gregory, Prof. J. W. Piaz, Prof. Dal.
Hayashi, Prof. Rendle, Dr. A. B.
Hinde, Mrs. G. J. Reyneli, A., Esq.
Jackson, J. Wilfrid, Esq. Rohwer, S. A., Esq.
Jillson, Prof. W. R. Roig) Dr. MOS:
Kerr, Mrs. R. Sherborn, C. D., Esq.
Kilian, Prof. W. Stopes, Dr. M. C.
Katehin, “Dr. F.. L. Tillyard, Dr. R. J.
Lambert, Dr. J. Whitehouse, W., Esq.
North, Dr.F.. J. Wilson, Mrs.
Osborn, Prof. H. F. Woodward, Dr. A. S.
-Petronievics, Dr. B.
IV.—Publications.
Progress has been made with the printing of the third volume
of the Catalogue of Cretaceous Bryozoa, and with the preparation
of the MS. of the Supplement to the Catalogue of Fossil Fishes.
Apart from the official publications of the Trustees, the
following descriptive papers dealing with different parts of the
collection have been contributed to scientific journals during
1920 :—
By Dr. A. 8. Woopwarp.
1. On the Dentition of the Petalodont Shark, Climazodus.
Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. vol. lxxv., pp. 1-6, pl. 1.
By Dr. F. A. BATHER.
1. Fossils and Life: Address to the Geological Section.
Rep. Brit. Assoc., Cardiff, 1920.
2. Protoscolex latus, a new ‘‘ Worm’”’ from the Lower
Ludlow Beds. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (9) vol. v., pp. 124-182.
3. Pholocidaris anceps, a Correction. Loc. cit., pp. 271-2738.
4. Kchinoid or Crinoid? Geol. Mag. 1920, pp. 371-872.
By Mr. R. B. NEwron.
1. On some Freshwater Fossils from Central South Africa.
Ann, Mag. Nat. Hist. (9), vol. v., pp. 241-249, pl. viii.
By Dr. C. W. ANnDREws.
1. Note on Two new Species of Fossil Tortoises. Ann. Mag.
Nat. Hist. (9), vol. v., pp. 145-150.
2. Remains of the Great Auk and Ptarmigan in the Channel
Islands. Loc. cit., vol. vi., p. 167.
3. A Description of New Species of. Zeuglodont and of
Leathery Turtle from the Eocene of Southern Nigeria. Proc.
Zool, Soc. 1919 (1920), pp. 309-819, pls. i., ii.
By Mr. T. H. Wituers.
1. The Cirripede Genus Stramentum (Loricula): its
History and Structure. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (9) vol. v., pp.
65-84, pls. ili., iv.
2. The Cirripede Subgenus Scillaclepas: its probable Occur-
ence in the Jurassic Rocks (S. gaveyi, sp. n.). Loc. cit., pp.
258-264, pl. xiii.
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By Miss D. M. A. Bare.
1. Note on a New Vole and other Remains from the Ghar
Dalam Cavern, Malta. Geol. Mag., 1920, pp. 208-211.
By Mr, D. M. 8. Watson.
1. On the Cynodontia. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (9) vol. vi.,
pp. 506-524. |
By Pror. T. D. A. CockERELL.
1. A Therevid Fly in Burmese Amber. Entomologist, vol.
liii, pp. 169-170.
2. Fossil Arthropods in the British Museum. Parts I.-IV.
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (9) vol. v., pp. 278-279, 455-463, pl. xvi.;.
loc. cit. vol. vi., pp. 65-72, 211-214.
By Mr. H. Sr. J. K. DonistHorps.
1. British Ohgocene Ants. .Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (9) vol.
v., pp. 81-94, pl. v.
By Mr. W. B. R. Kine.
1. Notes on the Genus Sphaerocoryphe. Geol. Mag., 1920,
pp. 532-634, pl. xiii.
By Dr F. J. Nortu.
1. On Syringothyris, Winchell, and Certain Carboniferous
Brachiopoda referred to Spiriferina, D’Orbigny. Quart. Journ.
Geol. Soc., vol. lxxvi., pp. 162-227, pls. x1.—x11.
By Mr. L. F. Spatu.
1. On anew Ammonite Genus (Dayiceras) from the Lias of
Charmouth. Geol. Mag., 1920, pp. 538-543, pl. xv.
V.— Acquisitions.
A.—By Donation.
Mammalia.—Portion of mandibular ramus of Palaeotherium
from the Bembridge Limestone, Sconce Point, I. of Wight
(collected by 8S. L. Wood, Esq.). Mrs. T. D. A. Cockerell.
Portion of mandible with milk-teeth, a deformed incisor tooth
and a metacarpus of Myotragus balearicus from Majorca. Miss
D. M.A. Bate. |
Remains of Hippopotamus minutus from the Pleistocene of
Cyprus. C. Godfrey Gunther, Esq.
Horn-core of Bison from Pleistocene gravel, Mitcham, Surrey.
W.S. Oulds, Esq." *
Caudal vertebra of a giant ground-sloth from the Jurua River,
Amazon. £. Stanley Sutton, Esq.
The collection of vertebrate remains discovered by Mr. W. J.
Lewis Abbott in a fissure near Ightham, Kent, including the
mammalian and avian remains described by E. T. Newton,
Quart. Journ. Geol. Soe., vol. 50 (1894), and the mammalian
remains described by S. H. Reynolds, “‘ British Pleistocene:
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Mammalia,’’ vol. ii. (Pal. Soc.), and by M. A. C. Hinton, Ann.
Mag. N.H. (8), vol. vi. (1910), and Sci. Proc. Roy. Dublin Soc.
n.s., vol. xii. (1909). Sir Henry H. Howorth, K.C.1E., F.RS.
Portion of antler of Ivish Deer (Cervus megaceros) from
Great Northern Railway ballast pits near Lolham, Northampton-
shire. Vernon B. Crowther-Benyon, Esq., F.S.A.
Section of molar of Equus from the beach near Minster,
Sheppey. W. H. Shrubsole, Esq., F.G.S.-
Aves.—A feather from the Miocene of Florissant, Colorado,
Prof. T, D. A. Cockerell.
The egg of an extinct Struthious bird (Struthiolithus) from
China. Rev. H. M. Clark.
Reptilia.—Wax model of the skull of Lysorophus made by
the donor’s method of serial sections. Prof. W. J. Sollas,
Ee. St
Portion of Ichthyosaurian rostrum from the highlands N. of
Grahamstown, 8. Africa. Miss Edyth Walton.
Two vertebre and two phalangeals of a Plesiosaurian col-
lected by the late F. J. Barnes, Esq., from the Portland Stone,
I. of Portland. The family of the late F. J. Barnes, Esq.
Mandibular ramus of Homeeosaurus major from the Middle
Purbeck, Durlston Bay, Swanage. Afliss Grace Pickford.
Pisces.—-Three fish-remains (Cheirolepis, Gyroptychius and
Coccosteus) from the Old Red Sandstone, Edderton Burn, Tain,
Ross-shire. JIMiss Anme C. Jackson.
A collection of remains of a new Palzoniscid fish (Hlonich-
thys sp.) and a new Dipnoan, collected by the donor from the
Lower Carboniferous, Deer Lake, Newfoundland. 7. Landell-
Mills, Esq., F.G.S.
A specimen of Cleithrolepis minor from the Upper Karoo,
Caledon River, Orange River Colony. Dr. Robert Broom,
PLES.
Nine Otoliths from the Portlandian Hartwell Clay, Ayles-
bury. £. Hollis, Esq.
The type-specimen of Mesodon barnesi, A. S. Woodward,
Proc. Dorset Field Club, vol. 27 (1906), p. 187, pl. B.; a fin-
spine of Zschyodus townsendi descr. and figd., loc. cit., p. 181,
pl. A.; a splenial bone of Mesodon damoni and three other fish-
-remains; all collected by the late F,. J. Barnes, Esq., from the
Portland Stone, I. of Portland. The family of the late F. J.
Barnes, Esq.
Tooth of Oxyrhina mantell: from the Chalk of Beer, Devon.
P. B,. Richards, Esq.
Five fish-remains from the Lower Eocene (Cernaysian),
Reims, France. Rev. Prof. P. Teilhard, S.J.
A collection of teeth of Lamnid sharks (including Odontaspis
elegans, O. macrota and O. trigonalis) from the Middle Eocene,
Lee-on-Solent. C. Bevous Smith, Esq.
Two fishes from the Miocene Shales of Florissant, Colorado.
Prof. T. D. A. Cockerell.
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A series of bones of Platax woodwardi from the Norwich Crag,
Haston Bavent, Suffolk. H. Skrimshire, Esq.
A cranium of a Teleostean fish from the phosphates of N.
Africa. H. Dixon Hewitt, Hisoie Pate
_ A tooth of Oxyrhina from the Patagonian formation, Beagle
Bluff, Santa Cruz. Leonard Cooper, Esq.
Vertebrze and portions of skulls of a large fossil perch (Lates
niloticus) collected by the donor on a sand-spit at the north end
of Lake Rudolf, Sudan. Major L. F. I. Athill, R.F.A.
Moliusca.—Kleven Carboniferous Goniatites from Stafford-
shire and Cheshire. he late Dr. Wheelton Hind, F.G.S.
A Bellerophon from the Carboniferous Limestone, Weston-
super-Mare. Geoffrey EL. O. Mullins, Esq.
Three Gastropoda from the Carboniferous Limestone, Stan-
hope-in-Weardale, including Trechmannia trochiformis, Long-
staff, Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. Ixviii., pl. xxx., and 7'ro-
pidestropha punctata, Longstatfi, tbid., pl. xxvii. Two small
blocks from the Upper Coal Measures, Claxheugh, co. Durham,
with specimens of Ancylus vinti, figd. by the donor in the Geol.
Mag., 1919, pl. v., figs. 1, 2. Six Ammonites from the Trias of
Austria. Five Nautiloids and eighty Ammonites from the Trias
of the United States. Six Ammonites and four Nautiloids from
the Upper Trias of New Zealand, noticed, and two figured by the
donor in Quart. Journ: Geol. Soc., vol. Ixxiii. (1918), p. 165,
pl. xvii. Dr. C. T. Trechmann, F.G.S.
Three Gastropoda (Naticella, §c.) from the Dolomite of Pre-
dazzo, S. Tyrol. &. Kirkpatrick, Esq.
Twelve Ammonites and six Lamellibranchs from the Lower
Lias of South Wales; also the type-specimen of Liparoceras
pseudostriatum, Trueman, Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. lxxiv.
(1919), p. 272, fig. 4, from the Lias of Dorset. Dr. A. FE. True-
man, F'.GLS.
Twenty Lamellibranchs, one Gastropod and ten Cephalopods,
from the Oxfordian of Vaches Noires, Calvados, France. Mon-
sieur R. J. F. Rakowski.
Twelve specimens of Dentalium from the Portlandian Hart-
well Clay of Aylesbury. 2. Hollis, Esq.
A Pecten from the Portland Stone, I. of Portland. The
family of the late F. J. Barnes, Esq. :
Ten Jurassic Mollusca from Wyoming; two Cretaceous Mol-
lusca from Texas; and 69 Cretaceous Mollusca from Colorado.
University of Colorado, per Mr. Junius Henderson, Curator of
Museum.
Remains of Gastropods, probably Cretaceous, from near
Komgha village, S. Africa. Dr. Arthur W. Rogers, F.R.S.
About fifty fossils, chiefly Lamellibranch shells, from the
Upper Cretaceous of Persia. J. V. Harrison, Esq.
Seventeen fragments of Ammonites collected by the donor,
1912, from the Cretaceous of Enyiba, S. Nigeria. A. EL. Kitson,
BsQij iG sBale
Two Ammonites from the Upper Cretaceous of Seebe, Alberta.
IV. KE. Cutler, Esq., F.G.S.
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An Ammonite in flint from the Mount of Olives. Jfiss
Winifred K. Baird.
Two Nautili from the Chalk of Kent and Berks. 7. H.
Withers, Esq., F.G.S.
The type-specimen of ee intermedius J. de C.
Sowerby, Mag. Nat. Hist., vol. 1. (1829), p. 296, fig. 83, from
the Chaik of Norfolk; also ice. specimens of the same species.
L. F. Spath, Esq., F.G.S.
Kight specimens of Ostrea lunata from the Ahus Sandstone,
Scania, Sweden. Prof. Karl A. Grénwall.
A Nautilus (Hercoglossa aegyptiacus) from the Eocene of
Mokattam, near Cairo, Egypt. Charles Taylor, Esq., M.D.
A shell of Fusus serratus from the Lutetian (Middle Eocene)
of Seine-et-Oise. AR. N.C. Hunt, Esq.
Fifty-six natural casts of Mollusca from the Miocene Lime-
stone, Mandeville, Jamaica. Col. L. Worthington Wilmer.
Eight valves of Ostrea from a Tertiary (probably Miccene)
formation in British Hast Africa. C. W. Hobley, Esq., C.M.G.
Thirty Lamellibranchs from the Tertiary of South Kurdistan.
J.V. Harrison, Esq.
An oyster from the phosphates of N. Africa. H. Dizon
sarge Ksq., LIE:
oe from the Patagonian Formation of Santa Cruz. Asa
Gostling, E'sq.
A collection of land-shells obtained by the donor from a
fissure near Ightham, Kent. W. J. Lewis Abbott, Esq., F.G.S.
Fifteen terrestrial and marine shells from an ossiferous breccia
and caverns in Sardinia, noticed in the donor’s works, ‘‘ Nat.
Hist. Zool. Paléont. de la Corse et de Sardaigne,’’ fase. 5 (1914),
p. 72, and ‘Contrib. Etude Vie Vert. Insul. Medit. Occid.’
(1920), p- 54. Monsieur D. G. Dehaut.
Arthropoda.—EKleven specimens of Marrella splendens from
the Middie Cambrian (Burgess Shale), Burgess Pass, Field,
British Columbia. Dr. C. D. Walcott.
Three pieces of Lower Ludlow rock with Ceratiocaris, from
Mocktree, Herefordshire. Dr. Herbert L. Hawkins, F.G.S.
Two slabs of Listheria collected by the donor from the Lower
Carboniferous, Deer Lake, Newfoundland. 7. Landell-Mulls,
msg, £ GS.
Nineteen Insects, including among other type-specimens a
reverse of the type of the Ichneumid, 7'ryphon explanatum, from
the Miocene of Florissant, Colorado. Prof. T. D. A. Cockerell.
Sixty-nine pieces of Amber from the Miocene of Burma, cor-
taining the remains of Arthropods and including the type-speci-
mens of Burmitembia venosa, Aleurodiscus Bumnoutious: Microp-
feryx pervetus, Johannsenomyia swinhoet, Psylloneura (?)
parantiqua, Garypus burmiticus, Epyris atavellus, Psilocephala
electrella, Labidura electrina, and Eophlebotomus connectens,
“described by Prof. T. D. A. Cockerell. Rodway C. J. Swinhoe,
Esq
‘Three specimens of Balanus tintinnabulum var. concinna, and
two of B. laevis var. nitida, from raised beaches near Payta,
Peru. Dr. T. O. Bosworth, F.G.S.
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Echinoderma.—A plaster cast of the type-specimen of
Eucalyptocrinus proboscidalis. from the Silurian, Pontiac, Ohio.
Dr, Aug. F. Foerste.
Thirty-four Crinoids and two Blastoids from the Lower Car-
boniferous of Malahide, Dublin. Louis B. Smyth, Esq., B.Sc.
An Ophiurid arm from the Rhaetic, near Frome. Tf. H.
Wethers, E'sq., F.G.S.
A piece of Crinoid Limestone (with Jsocrinus) and two
Echinoids (Hemipedina and Inademopsis?) from the Lower Lias
of Charmouth, Dorset. Dr. W. D. Lang.
Fifty-six Echinoid, sixteen Ophiurid and sixty-two Crinoid
remains from the Portlandian Hartwell Clay of Aylesbury. J.
Hollis, Esq. ;
Two Echinoids (Hemiaster) from the Cretaceous of Wady-el-
Tib, near Ajul, Ephraim, Palestine; and four Echinoids from
the Lower Senonian, near Abancourt, France. Geoffrey E. O.
Mullins, Esq.
Nine Echinoids and eighteen Crinoid remains from the Chalk
ef Surrey. 7. H. Withers, Esq., F.GS.
Four stem-fragments of Balanocrinus collected by the donor
from the Eocene of Biarritz. EH. Heron-Allen, Esq., F.R.S.
A Clypeaster from the Oligocene of Cerro La Puerta, Tophila,
northern Vera Cruz, Mexico. John M. Muir, Esq.
An Kchinoid (Clypeaster aegyptiacus) from the Miocene,
Mussendum, Persian Gulf. Mrs. Kossman.
A fragment of Echinoid (Schizaster) from the Coralline Crag,
Broom’s Hill, Gedgrave. Alfred Bell, Esq.
A Crinoid, Holopus rangi, from a depth of 60 fathoms in the
sea off Barbados. Dr. C. T. Trechmann, F.G.S.
Annelida.—Three Annelids from the Silurian of Gotland.
Dr, FA. Bather Bas.
A large slab of Sandstone with worm-like tracks, from the
base of the Carboniferous, near Kirkby Lonsdale. Mayor Gibson.
A Triassic (Carnian) worm, Terebellina mackayi, from the
Misol Archipelago. Director of the Geological Institute,
University, Bonn, Germany.
Five Serpule from the Oxfordian of Vaches Noires, Calva-
dos. Monsieur KR. J. F. Rakowski.
Brachiopoda.—Two internal casts of Paleozoic Brachiopods
from near Huanuni, Bolivia, 13,000ft. above the sea. Walliam
T. Rennie, Esq.
Two Brachiopods from the Lower Senonian, near Abancourt,
France. Geoffrey E. O. Mullins, Esq.
Polyzoa.—A Polyzoan from the Wenlock Limestone, Pen-y-
lan, Cardiff. Dr. F. A. Bather, F.R.S,
A Polyzoan from the Lower Greensand of Folkestone. JL. F.
Brady, Esq. . 4
Two Polyzoa from the Senonian Ahus Sandstone, Scania,
Sweden. Prof. Karl A. Grénwall.
Coelentera.—Iwenty Carboniferous Corals from New South
Wales and Queensland, described by the donor m Proc. Linn.
DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY. eye
Soc. N. S. Wales; two Corals from the Carboniferous Limestone
of Northern England; and two sections of Orionastraea ensifer
from the Carboniferous Limestone of Wrington, Somerset. Dr.
Stanley Smith, F.G.S.
Two Corals from the Miocene Limestone of Mandeville,
Jamaica. Col. L. Worthington Wilmer.
Porifera.—A Sponge from the Chalk Marl of Arlesey, Bed-
fordshire. Prof. T. D. A. Cockerell.
A portion of a Sponge (Ventriculites) in flint. Miss Joan
Chapman.
Protozoa.—F¥ ive sections of Vummulites from the Bracklesham
Beds, Bracklesham, Sussex. H. A. Moncrieff, Esq.
A piece of Foraminifera] limestone from the Tertiary of South
Kurdistan. J. V. Harrison, Esq.
Two microscope-slides of Radiolarian earth from Barbados.
lieut.-Gen. Sir Nicholas Yermoloff, K.C.B.
Miscellaneous Invertebrata, etc.—A collection of 166 fossils
from Spitsbergen, made chiefly by W. J. Reynolds, Esq.,
namely :—Permo-Carboniferous and Permian fossils from Mimer
Bay and Ekman Bay; Triassic fossils from Sassen Bay; Triassic
and Jurassic fossils from Van Keulen’s Bay; Kimmeridgian
fossils from Green Harbour; Jurassic plants from various local-
ities; ammonites and Aucella from Cape Delta; Aptian fossils
from Whale’s Head, &c.; and belemnites from various localities.
Messrs. Beeby Thompson and Partners.
About eighty Upper Cretaceous fossils (Gastropoda, Lamelli-
branchia, Brachiopoda, Polyzoa, and Kchinoids), collected by
the donor in Persia. J. V. Harrison, Esq.
About a hundred and ninety Tertiary fossils (Mollusca,
Crustacea, Echinoids, Corals, &c.) collected by the donor in
Persia. B. K. N. Wyllie, Esq.
Four Corals, three Polyzoa, one Annelid, two Brachiopods and
five Mollusca from the Miocene of Malta. Geoffrey E. O.
Mullins, Esq.
About eighty Tertiary fossils (Corals, Echinoids, Mollusca,
&c.) from Mombasa, British East Africa. C. W. Hobley, Esq.,
C.M.G.
One Coral, three Crustacean remains, three Lamellibranchs,
six Gastropods, two rock-specimens and one piece of resinous sub-
stance from the Tertiary of Corosal Quarry, Trinidad. f&. J.
Faulkner, Esq.
Plante.—Two Coal-balls from the Coal Measures, Romsée,
near Liége, Belgium. Prof. Armand Remer.
A specimen of the Permo-Carboniferous Gangamopteris from
Bald Hill, Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, Australia. Dr. C. T. Trech-
mann, F.G.S.
Three specimens of Halymenites major from the Cretaceous of
Colorado. University of Colorado, per Mr. Junius Henderson,
Curator of the Museum.
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A silicified rock containing Chara and remains of Gastropods,
* with two microscope-sections of the same, probably Cretaceous,
from near Komgha village, South Africa. Dr. Arthur W.
Rogers, F.R.S.
Sixteen Plants from the Miocene of Florissant, Colorado.
Prof. T. D. A. Cockerell,
Two fossil Plants from Miocene leaf-beds, Ormond, Poverty
Bay, New Zealand. W. Hill, Esq.
Leaf-impressions in porcellanite from Trinidad. C. B.
Williams, Esq.
Five microscope-slides of diatomaceous earth from Lompoc,
Santa Barbara Co., California. Lieut.-Gen. Sir Nicholas Y ermo-
loff, K.C.B.
A piece of laminated mud with seeds, &c., deposited in 1913
by flood at Dayton, Ohio. Dr. Aug. F. Foerste.
Rock-specimens.—A piece of chert worn into the shape of a
vertebra, from Stonebarrow Hill, Charmouth, Dorset. Mrs.
Cecil Bagot.
B.—By Purchase.
Mammalia.—A molar and two vertebre of Tetrabelodon; a
molar of Rhinoceros; a right maxilla, a sacrum and a caudal
vertebra of Brachyodus; an axis vertebra of a Carnivore; and a
portion of the jaw of Cyrtedelphis; collected by Lieut. Lamb
from the Lower Miocene of the Libyan desert.
Mammalian remains from the Pleistocene and later deposits
round Peterborough (Leeds Coll.).
A collection of ten portions of skulls and lower jaws of small
mammals, chiefly Rodentia, from the Caves of Cuba and Indian
shell-mounds of Porto Rico.
Reptilia.—About twenty-eight reptilian remains from the
Oxtord Clay of Peterborough (Leeds Coll.).
A skull and portion of another skull of Tomistoma dowsont,
collected by Lieut. Lamb from the Lower Miocene of the Libyan
Desert.
Pisces.—F ifteen fish-remains from the Oxford Clay of Peter-
borough (Leeds Coll.).
A piece of rostrum of Pristis collected by Lieut. Lamb from
the Lower Miocene of the Libyan Desert.
Mollusca.—Lower Cambrian Scaphopoda and sixty-four Ordo-
vician Gastropoda from Newfoundland.
A hundred and seventeen Cephalopoda from the Trias of Timor
(J. Wanner Coll.).
Mollusca from the Cretaceous of Gosau, Austria (Schrammen
Coll.).
A very large Inoceramus from the Chalk, Kansas (Sternberg
Coll.). .
A Nautilus from the Barton Clay.
Arthropoda. —Sixty-eight Lower Cambrian Trilobites from
Newfoundland.
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Echinoderma.—Seventeen Cystids, twelve Blastoids and forty-
three Crinoids from the Paleozoic of N. America.
Four specimens of the Carboniferous Crinoid Agaricocrinus.
A fossil Echinoid (Clypeaster) showing internal structure.
Brachiopoda.—Twenty-five Lower Cambrian Brachiopoda,
and seventeen Silurian fossils, chiefly Brachiopoda, from New-
foundland.
Polyzoa.—Two hundred Polyzoa from the Chalk of Worthing.
Coelentera.—Corals from the Cretaceous of Gosau, Austria
(Schrammen Coll.).
Porifera.—Sixteen Porifera from the Trias of Timor (J.
Wanner Coll.).
A thousand Sponges from the Jurassic and Cretaceous chiefly
of Hanover (Schrammen Coll.).
Miscellaneous Invertebrata.—The first instalment of the Gray
Collection of Girvan fossils, including seven hundred type and
figured specimens. ‘
Seven hundred and forty Devonian Invertebrata from N.
America, chiefly Iowa.
Problematical fossils.—Hleven problematical fossils from the
Middle Cambrian, Burgess Pass, Field, British Columbia.
C.—By Hachange.
Fifteen remains of a Crinoid, Drepanocrinus sessilis, from
the Cretaceous of Milheim-am-Rhein, Germany.
Two pieces of chert with petrified plant-remains from the
Devonian of Rhynie, Aberdeenshire.
The total accessions during 1920 are as follows: —
Donations. Purchases. Exchanges. Total.
Vertebrata - 3,042 73 — 3,115
Invertebrata - 1,518 16,235 15 17,768
Plante - - 18 — 2 20
Rocks” - - 9) — — 5
4,583 16,308 17 20,908
The total number of specimens registered is 17,317.
VI.—Students and Visitors.
The number of visits paid to the Department by Students and
other persons for the purpose of consultation or study during
1920 was 4,920.
Arthur Smith Woodward.
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DEPARTMENT OF MINERALOGY.
l.—Arrangement.
The specimens of limonite have been re-arranged in the case-
tops, and those of proustite in a special light-proof case provided
with a wooden lid which can be raised in order to view the speci-
mens.
Photomicrographs of micro-sections of some of the more im-
portant types of rocks have been placed in the cases containing
the species-collection of rocks.
Series of minerals and rocks have been arranged for the use of
students, and descriptive labels have been prepared for them.
Forty-eight boxes of mineral and rock specimens have been
received, unpacked, and examined; and fifty-two boxes have been
packed and dispatched.
Il.—Registration, Indexing, and Cataloguing.
All the specimens of minerals, recks, and meteorites acquired
during the year have been registered, numbered, provided with
permanent labels, and incorporated in the collection. In this
connection many specimens have been examined and determined,
and localities have been checked. ;
The preparation of the slip-catalogues of the mineral speci-
mens in the collection, species by species, and of permanent labels
giving all available information for each specimen, has been con-
tinued for the Division of the Oxides, and has been commenced
for that of the Sulphates. In this connection slips and permanent
labels have been prepared for opal, valentinite, cervantite, ker-
mesite, and the remaining species up to the end of the Oxides.
The slip-catalogue of species is being utilised for the prepara-
tion of a complete and detailed topographical index of all speci-
mens in the Mineral Collection, giving on cards the names of the
species represented from each locality; and at the same time a
topographical list of localities for each species is being prepared.
This work has been completed as far as the end of the Sulphides
and Sulpho-salts, and 2,670 locality cards have been written and
154 species dealt with.
All the described specimens in the collection of rocks of the
““ Discovery ’* Antarctic Expedition, and the specimens of rocks
described in the reports of the National Antarctic Expedition of
1907-9, have been provided with permanent labels, and the names
have been included in the list of rock-names.
The preparation of a new descriptive and alphabetical list of
the meteorites represented in the collection has been in progress.
Two copies of the new periodical publication, ‘‘ Mineralogical
Abstracts,’’ issued by the Mineralogical Society, have been cut
up when received and arranged for reference in the Department.
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III.—Preparation.
Two hundred and thirty-three micro-sections of minerals,
meteorites, and rocks have been prepared.
Coloured plaster casts have been made of the Appley Bridge
meteorite.
LV .—IJnvestigation.
The crystallographic and optical investigation of the series of
cerystals of lead and copper minerals from Red Gill, Cumberland,
and Leadhills, Lanarkshire, in the Trechmann Collection, has
been completed, and a description has been prepared for pub-
lication.
Among other species which have been examined for purposes
of identification or other reasons may be mentioned, minerals from
Tanganyika Territory, Northern Nigeria (zircon, corundum,
etc.), Ceylon (zircon, fibrolite, etc.), and Madagascar (chrysoberyl,
betafite, columbite, etce.); crystals of tin compounds from tin
furnaces (tin sulphide, iron stannide, tin arsenide); fibroferrite
from Cyprus; manganite from Cumberland.
The investigation of the metamorphic rocks represented in the
collections of the “Terra Nova’’ Antarctic Expedition has been
in progress, and descriptions have been prepared of rocks from
Evans Cove, McMurdo Sound, and Granite Harbour.
Rock-specimens from Islands off the coast of Peru, from
Darfur, and from Somaliland; specimens of riebeckite-rhyolite
from Kordofan; and of ‘‘ blood-rain’’ and sands from the
Canaries, have been examined, and descriptions have been pre-
pared for publication.
In the Chemical Laboratory a complete quantitative analysis
has been made of the Ensisheim meteorite. Many minerals have
also been qualitatively analysed.
V.—Departmental Library.
Cataloguing and Press-marking.—All the accessions, includ-
ing 809 plates, have been catalogued and stamped; 69 volumes
have been pressmarked or re-pressmarked.
Proofs of the General Library Catalogue (Supplement) have
been read and checked against the slip-catalogue in the Depart-
ment.
Accessions.—31 volumes of separate works, 80 periodicals,
351 pamphlets, 21 mining and survey reports, and 12 sheets ot
maps have been added to the Library.
Binding.—96 volumes have been bound.
V1I.—Publications.
A new short guide to the Mineral Gallery has been prepared
for press.
The following papers relating to specimens in the Collection
have been published in the Mineralogical Magazine and Journal
of the Mineralogical Society, 1920, vol. xix. :—
The classification of Meteorites: by G. T. Prior (p. 51).
156 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
New crystal-forms on Pyrites, Calcite, and Epidote: by L. J.
Spencer (p. 1).
Fibrolite (=Sillimanite) as a gem-stone from Burma and
Ceylon: by L. J. Spencer (p. 107).
A curious crystal from the Binn Valley, Switzerland: by
G. F. Herbert Smith (p. 40).
Riebeckite-rhyolite from northern Kordofan, Sudan: by W.
Campbell Smith (p. 48).
VIT.— Acquisitions.
1,758 specimens have been acquired, namely, 500 minerals,
621 rocks, 540 micro-sections of rocks, 93 meteorites, and 4
artificial products.
iixchanges of specimens have been arranged with the Royal
Ontario Museum of Mineralogy, Toronto, Canada;-the Museum
of Practical Geology, London; and the United States National
Museum, Washington, D.C.
The following mineral names added to the Museum List were
previously not represented in the collection :—
Amosite, creedite, ferrazite, inyoite, manganapatite, phos-
phoferrite, phosphophyllite, phosphosiderite, schoharite, temis-
kamite, uvanite.
The specimens acquired by presentation (arranged alpha-
betically according to donors) and by exchange, and a selection
of the more important of those obtained by purchase are as
follow :—
Minerals.
By Presentation.
Chalcedony, as an encrustation on the surface of the desert,
Fayim, Egypt: by Dr. C. W. Andrews, F.K.S.
Further instalments from the donor’s collection of zeolites,
namely, 103 specimens, representing 46 localities; 33 specimens
(aragonite, barytes, galena, hemimorphite, pyrites, vanadinite,
witherite, ete.) from Wanlockhead, Dumfriesshire, some of them
recently collected by the donor; cerussite from Weardale, Co.
Durham; bayldonite from Tsumeb, S.W. Africa; a zoned crystal
of green corundum from Siam: by F.N. Ashcroft, Esq.
Sapphire crystals in matrix from Mogok, pes Burma: by
A. L. Bacon, Esq.
A series of 25 specimens of Australian minerals, mainly from
the mining districts of north Queensland, including good crystals
of chillagite, chessylite, scheelite, cassiterite, molybdenite, topaz,
c.: by Rev. C. C. Barclay.
A scalenohedron of calcite: by S. F. Barnes, Esq.
A series of 13 specimens (galena, pyrites, blende, quartz, cal-
cite, aragonite, and pseudomorph e hemimorphite after calcite)
from W anlockhead, Dumfriesshire: by Robert Brown, Esq.
A small collection of minerals, mainly fragments of gem-
stones from Ceylon (including fibrolite, zircon, corundum, etc.):
by Lt.-Col. C. F. Call, late R.E.
Stalactites from a cave on Mangaia Island, Cook Islands,
Pacific: by Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Christian.
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A large, well-formed scalenohedral crystal of calcite, from
Millclose mine, Derbyshire; a large specimen of fluor from Wear-
dale, Co. Durham; barytes from Mexico; altered biotite from
Spain; and calamine crystals from Rhodesia: by H. Ff. Collins,
Esq.
Two large sheets of mica (4 ft. by 2 ft.) from Tanganyika
Territory: by the Under-Secretary of State, Colonial Office,
Downang Street (through Arnold Bradley, Esq.)
Magnetite from Chamonix, Haute-Savoie: by F. EH. Coullet,
Esq.
Ferrazite, a ‘“‘fava’’ from the Brazilian diamond-washings
(a new species named after the donor): by Dr. J. B. de Araujo
Ferraz.
Various rare-earth, radioactive, and gem-minerals from
ese : by E. H. Florens, Esq. (through Franklin White,
sq.).
Allophane from Argenta, British Columbia: by Thomas
French, Esq.
Amethyst crystal, showing zonal banding, from Brazil: by
Rev. J. M. Gordon.
Fluor (purple and green) pebble from the River Avon,
Banffshire: by Mrs. M. Smith Grant.
Jasper from Nunkirchen, Rhenish Prussia, some artificially
stained to imitate lapis-lazuli: dy Albert G. F. Gregory, Hsq.
Amosite, a new variety of asbestos, from Transvaal: by A. L.
Hall, Esq.
Crystals of calcite on oolite from Cotswold Hills, Gloucester-
shire: by M. C. Hampton, Esq.
Hornblende crystals in hornblende-andesite from Vic-sur-
Cere, Central France: by Mrs. Ernest Harrington.
Gypsum from Algeria: by Miss C. F. Harrison.
Rock-crystal grading into quartzite, from Diamantina, Minas
Geraes, Brazil: by Messrs. Adam Hilger, Ltd.
Kyanite, epidote, and garnet from British East Africa: by
C. W. Hobley, Esq., C.M.G.
Pickeringite from Cobriza, Peru: by W. C. Holden, Esq.
Chrysotile in dolomite, hematite crystals, ‘‘ jarrowite ’’ pseu-
domorphs, and diaspore, illustrating Japanese mineral occur-
rences: by Prof. Kotora Jimbo.
A suite of specimens of sapphire from New Mine, Yogo Valley,
Montana, U.S.A., comprising two matrix specimens, loose rough
stones, and four cut stones: by Messrs. Johnson, Walker and
Tolhurst, Ltd.
Gypsum nodules from the Wealden beds at the Gypsum mines,
Mountfield, Robertsbridge, Sussex: by L. C. Kemp, Esq.
Melanterite stalactites from Abertysswg colliery, Monmouth-
shire: by W.C. Kendrick, Esq.
Chalcedonic flint from the Kentish Rag at Ightham, Kent:
by A. S. Kennard, Esq.
Crystals of betafite and specimens of kornerupine from
Madagascar: by Prof. A. Lacroix.
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Gold found during excavation in the City of Cuyaba, Brazil -
by T. H. Lee, Esq.
Fluor, kyanite, and actinolite from the River Avon, Banff-
shire: by W. McPherson, Esq.
A very large and finely crystallised specimen of blende with.
calcite from New Glencrieff mine, Wanlockhead, Dumfriesshire :
by John Mitchell, Esq.
An interesting series of specimens of ruby, fibrolite, sapphire,
and diopside, from the Burma Ruby mines, Mogok, Upper
Burma: by A. H. Morgan, Esq.
“Star Pyrites’’ (dendritic crystallisations of pyrites between
layers of shale) from Lightmoor colliery, Cinderford, Gloucester-
shire: by William Morgan, Esq.
4 Herderite from Auburn, Maine, U.S.A.: by W. D. Nevel,
sq.
“ Kuroko ’’ (Black ore) and radioactive barytes from Japan :
by Prof. R. Ohashi.
Large crystallised specimen of inyoite from Hillsborough,
New Brunswick, Canada: by Hon. Chas. J. Osman.
Specimens of inyoite and gypsum from Hillsborough, New
’ Brunswick, Canada: by C. W. Osman, Esq.
Stannite from Anaconda mine, Butte, Montana: by Dr.
Richard Pearce.
& oa from Central Arabia: by St. J. B. Philby, Esq.,
LE.
Cone-in-cone structure from Barf Hill, Keswick: by J. Postle-
thwatte, E'sq.
Gaylussite crystals from the Salt Pan near Pretoria, Trans-
vaal; vanadinite crystals from Marico district, Transvaal: by
Dr. A.W. Rogers; FBS.
Limonite pseudomorphous after pyrites from the Chalk
quarries, Portsdown Hills, Hampshire: by Messrs. H. Rogers
and Sons.
Stibnite and cinnabar from China; cassiterite from Western
Australia; and copper-pyrites from Tasmania: by H. A. H.
Russell, Esq.
Quartz from Bristenstock, Switzerland: by W. Schmassmann,
Esq.
Hornblende enclosed in blende from Norway; and villamani-
nite, portions of the original material used for analysis: by
Dr. W. R. Schoeller.
Cassiterite from Katanga, Congo: by Dr. A. Schoep.
Gearksutite (some of the original material recently described
by the donor) from Gingin, Western Australia: by Dr. E. S.
Simpson. |
Allophane from Barcelona: by Club Muntanyenc, Barcelona,
Spain (through Sefior Mateo Sust).
Pyromorphite, galena, and crystallised slags, from Pontgi-
baud, Puy-de-Déme, France; native bismuth and scheelite
crystals from Wheal Friendship, Tavistock, Devonshire; hzema-
tite and dolomite from Brazil: by Arthur Taylor, Hsq.
' DEPARTMENT OF MINERALOGY. 159
Calcite concretions from Sherika, Khargeh Oasis, Egypt: by
Dr. Charles Taylor.
Rock-crystal grading into quartzite, and diamond matrix and
associated minerals, collected by the donor in Brazil, 1919: by
Robert R: Walls, Esq.
Ores (blende, galena, tetrahedrite, ankerite, etc.) from the
Combe Martin silver-lead mines (worked from about 1200 to
1880), North Devon; gold, iridosmine, and platinum from South
Africa: by Franklin White, Esq.
Native bismuth, zircon, and corundum from Northern
Nigeria: by A. Stanley Williams, Esq.
By Exchange:
A series of specimens of zinc phosphate minerals from the new
find at Salmo, British Columbia, viz., two specimens of spen-
cerite as crystals (a new species); hopeite and parahopeite with
spencerite; hemimorphite, crystals and mamillated, and pseu-
domorphous after spencerite.
Crystallised willemite from Broken Hill, Rhodesia.
By Purchase:
A series of large show specimens of various minerals (axinite,
blende, chessylite, copper, copper-pyrites, polybasite, sphzerosi-
derite, wavellite, quartz pseudomorphous after barytes, etc.)
selected from an old collection made by the late Charles Walker.
Miscellaneous specimens illustrating British mineral occur-
rences, including :—cerussite, acicular crystals, from Weardale,
Co. Durham; tennantite crystals from St. Just, Cornwall; native
silver, botryoidal blende, pinite, dufrenite, halloysite, etc., from
Cornwall; caledonite with lanarkite from Leadhills, Lanark-
shire.
A series of minerals from the asbestos mines of Val Malenco,
Lombardy, including asbestos (a mass of long fibres), actinolite,
albite, tourmaline, penninite, quartz, magnesite.
Covellite, large brilliant blue plates, from Sardinia.
Linarite and paratacamite, well-crystallised, from Chili.
Serpierite, a fine crystallised specimen from Laurion, Greece.
Minerals from Germany, comprising :—new occurences of
phosphate minerals in pegmatite at Hagendorf and Pleystein,
Bavaria, including the new species phosphophyllite, phosphofer-
rite; various minerals from Thuringia, including native gold
with pyrophyllite, bournonite with caledonite, etc.; a large
crystalline mass of chaleanthite from the Harz Mountains; cry-
stals of kainite and kieserite.
Minerals from the Otavi district in S.W.. Africa, e.g., ota-
vite, phosgenite, anglesite, cuprodescloizite.
New Canadian mineral occurrences, including : —polished slabs:
showing the association of breithauptite, niccolite, smaltite, and
native silver in the veins at Cobalt, Ontario; spencerite, para-
hopeite, orthoclase crystals, and sodalite from British Columbia;
temiskamite (a species new to the collection).
160 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
New occurrences in the United States, including :—creedite
and uvanite (new species); strontianite from California; phos-
phorites from Wyoming and South Carolina; riebeckite from
Colorado.
Cupro-scheelite and scheelite, spessartite, and chessylite
crystals, from New South Wales,
Alunite from Japan.
Graphite from Greenland.
Rocks.
By Presentation :
Dust which fell on 8-11 Feb., 1920, at the Canary Islands;
volcanic tuffs and basalt from the Canary Islands: by D. A.
Bannerman, E'sq., M.B.E.
Rock-specimens collected by the donor in the South American
Antarctic Islands: by A. G. Bennett, Esq.
Kaolinized quartz-porphyry from Cornwall: by Charles H.
Bowser, Esq.
Sandstone from South Orkneys; volcanic bomb from Decep-
tion Island, South Shetlands; by the Governor of the Falkland
Islands.
Marble and porphyrite from British Somaliland: by Miss
E. M. Godman.
Polished specimen of porphyrite from near Ballantrae, Ayr-
shire: by Rev. J. M. Gordon.
Shell-sand and ‘ Red rain’ from Gran Canaria: by S. H. M.
Head, Esq.
Glacial] boulders and pebbles from the neighbourhood of
Toronto, Canada; ophicalcite blocks showing ‘ Kozoon Canadense ’
structure from Quebec; 164 miscellaneous micro-sections mostly
of sedimentary rocks from various localities: by the family of
the late Dr. G. J. Hinde, F.R.S.
Rounded scoria of olivine-basalt from near Old Merce, Egypt:
by Lt.-Col. Sir Herbert W. Jackson, C.B., Governor of Dongola,
Egypt (through Dr. P. Chalmers Mitchell, C.B.E., F.R.S.).
Serpentine, trachyte, and limestone, from Raska, Serbia,
collected by the donor 1918-19: by Mfiss A. L. Lang.
A series of 49 specimens collected by the donor in 1920 from
the province of Darfur, Sudan: by Capt. Hubert Lynes, C.B.,
CM: GRMN
Pebbles of various rocks from.the River Avon, Banffshire: by
W. McPherson, Esq. |
Limestone impregnated with oil, basalt coated with asphalt,
and gilsonite, from Vera Cruz, Mexico: by John M. Muir, Esq.
A series of 125 specimens, with the corresponding micro-
sections, of metamorphic rocks from British Hast Africa: by
John Parkinson, Esq. |
A 11 specimens from Central Arabia: by St. J. B. Philby, Esq.,
Wad SE
Erratic boulders from the foot of the cliffs between Cromer
and Overstrand, Norfolk; 50 specimens collected by the donor:
by DriG. LP ntor, oki iS:
DEPARTMENT OF MINERALOGY. 161
Erratic boulders, including 2 rhomb-porphyries and 3 fossili-
ferous limestones, collected by the donor from the foot of the
cliffs between Cromer and Overstrand, Norfolk: by Mrs. G. T.
Prior.
A series of 260 specimens from southern Abyssinia and Soma-
liland, collected by Dr. R. Koettlitz and Lord Lovat in 1898, and
described by the donor in 1903: by Dr. Catherine A. Ravsin.
9 rock specimens from the nickel-ore deposits at Talnotry,
Kirkeudbrightshire, and three other miscellaneous Scottish rocks,
collected by the donor: by W. Campbell Smith, Esq.. M.C.
Sandstone and limestone from the Combe Martin mines, North
Devon: bu Franklin White, Esq.
A small set of specimens collected by the donor on his journey
through Chitral, western Himalavas: by Lt.-Col. Sir Francis
Younghusband, EC SO ee
By Purchase :—
Minverites, granites, spilite, etc., from Cornwall; foramini-
feral limestone from Yorkshire.
Two polished specimens of devitrified rhyolite showing very
large spherulites.
A set of 134 micro-sections of rocks from Abyssinia and
Somaliland.
43 miscellaneous micro-sections of rocks.
METEORITES.
By Presentation :—
Mount Ayliff, Griqualand East, South Africa, a fragment
weighing 189 grams from the mass of iron known in 1907; also
a coloured plaster cast of the whole mass:
Simondium, Paarl, Cape Colonv. fragments weighing together
204 grams of the stone found in 1907:
A fragment of metallic iron (pseudo-meteorite) from Elands-
berg, South Africa :
By the Public Museum of King William’s Town, South Africa
(through the Director F. A. O. Pym, Esq.)
Karee Kluff, Hofmever, Cape Province, South Africa, a
piece’ weighing 38:6 grams and 72 grams of filings of this
meteoric iron: by the Trustees of the "Port Elizabeth Wuseur,
South Africa (through the Director, F. W. FitzSimons, E'sq.).
By Exchange :—
Cumberland Falls, Whitley Co., Kentucky, two crusted frag-
ments, weighing respectively 379 and 261 grams, of this brec-
ciated stone which fell on April 9th, 1919.
By Purchase :—
Appley Bridge, Wigan, Lancashire, the main mass, consisting
of two pieces, fitting together and weighing respectively 10,900
and 1,900 grams (total "98 lb. 34 0z.), of the stone which fell
on October 13th, 1914. Coloured plaster casts have been made in
the Department.
Li
162 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
Cookeville, Putnam Co., Tennessee, a polished and etched
shee weighing 135-6 grams of the iron found in 1913.
Cabeza de Mayo, Murcia, Spain, a fragment, weighing 61
erams, of the stone which fell on August 18th, 1870.
Mount Ayliff, Griqualand East, South Africa, a polished and
etched slice weighing 95 grams of the iron known in 1907.
Richardton, Stark Co., North Dakota, four complete stones
weighing respectively 478, 372, 413, 166 grams of the shower
of June 30th, 1918. !
A series of fragments of 74 meteorites previously represented
in the collection, acquired for purposes of investigation and
exchange.
Of the above meteorites those of which the names are printed
in italics belong to falls hitherto unrepresented in the Museum
Collection. ;
The following artificial products have been presented :—
Crystals of aluminium-copper alloy: by Miss Constance F.
Elam.
Magnetite crystals from the hearth of a copper furnace near
Salt Lake City, Utah: by Dr. Richard Pearce.
A cast of an Italian renaissance medal (about 4.p. 1500) show-
ing on the obverse a representation of Mt. Vesuvius; probably
the earliest representation of a voleano in eruption: by C. Davies
Sherborn, Esq.
VIII.—Donations of Duplicates.
Duplicate specimens of minerals have been given to Professor
A. Lacroix and Mr. C. B. Newton.
IX .—Demonstrations.
A demonstration on ‘‘ Forms of Silica’? was given to the
Geologists’ Association.
X.—Students and Visitors.
The number of visits recorded as made to the Department
for purposes of consultation or study is 625. Many specimens
of minerals and rocks have been determined for visitors and
correspondents.
G. T. Prior.
DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY. 163
DEPARTMENT OF Borany.
I.—Arrangement and Conservation.
During the past year 12,722 specimens have been incorporated
with the Herbarium. This number includes 11,625 Flowering
Plants, 6 Ferns, 431 Mosses, 132 Hepatics, 52 Alge, 209 Fungi,
and 267 Lichens.
Flowering Plants.—Collections acquired during the year have
been mounted and incorporated wholly or in part; and unincor-
porated material of the families of Polypetalous Dicotyledons
and of the Orchidaceew, Cyperacee and Graminee has been
sorted and in part arranged in genera and species. Work of
revision and incorporation has been done in various families and
genera, especially Orchidaceze, Euphorbiacee, and the families
of Apetalous Dicotyledons. Several genera have been rearranged
in accordance with recent monographs. In the British and Euro-
pean Herbarium progress has been made with the selection and
incorporation of the named material, and with the formation of
a collection of British seeds. A large number of duplicate
specimens have been sorted and arranged for purpose of exchange.
Cryptogams.—The important collection of West Indian Ferns
by Mr. R. V. Sherring has been sorted and in part compared with
the Herbarium, and work of revision has been done in the genus
Hymenophyllum. Work of incorporation has been done in various
groups, especially the Sphagnum mosses, Welwitsch’s Angolan
fungi, and the microfungi generally, The selection of the Stirton
collection of lichens has been completed, and progress has been
made with the formation of an Herbarium of Extra-European
Lichens.
Hahibition Sertes—Work of maintenance has been done in
the various series in the Public Gallery, and new specimens have
been added and labelled. Four large photographs illustrating
the vegetation of the Ruwenzori Range in Central Africa, pre-
sented by Lord Rothschild, have been placed on exhibition. A
number of specimens of British and cultivated plants have been
specially collected and prepared for exhibition.
Catalogues and Guides.—Volume IV. of the Flora of Jamaica
by Mr. Fawcett and Dr. Rendle has been published, and steady
progress has been made with the preparation of Volume V. A
Handbook of British Iighens has been prepared by Miss A.
Lorrain Smith and in part printed.
Il.—/nvestigations.
Collections have been investigated and determined from the
following localities and collectors:—Macedonia (various col-
lectors), Dardanelles (Cheesman), Palestine (Dinsmore), N.W.
Himalaya (G. EH. Benham), Annam (Kloss), Papua (White),
Java, Sumatra and New Guinea (H. O. Forbes), Middle Atlas
164 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
and Darfur (lynes), British Somaliland (Miss H. Godman),
French Soudan (Buchanan), Nyasaland (Mrs. Shinn), Rhodesia
(Kyles, Rogers), ‘Transvaal (Rand), Belgian Congo (Burtt-Davy),
Portuguese Congo (Gossweiler), Cameroons (Bates), West Aus-
tralia (Sargent), and New Caledonia (Compton). Work of deter-
mination and investigation has been done on the types of
Loureyro’s Cochin China plants, and in various families and
genera, especially Orchidacee, Pandanaceze, Liliacee, Legu-
minose, Composite, Rubiace, Amarantacee, Vellozia; Cam-
pynema, Rhynchosia, and Baphia. Also in various genera of
Alge, especially from the Cape and the Pacific and Antarctic
Oceans, and of micro-fungi. Numerous cases of diseases caused
by fungi have been investigated, including diseases of timber,
and various cultivated plants, such as potato, tomato, onion,
tulip, narcissus, peony, calla, heaths, etc. Assistance to students
and collectors has been given in determination of specimens, and
various matters of economic importance have been investigated.
In connection with work done in the Department, collections have
been generously lent by the Government of Jamaica; the Director
of the Roval Gardens, Kew; the Regius Keeper of Botany, Edin-
burgh; the Curator of the Bristol Museum; the Chief, Division
of Botany, Union of South Africa; the Director of the Natal
Herbarium; the Director of the South African Museum; the
Director of the Jardin Botanique de |’Ktat, Brussels; the |
Director of the Botanic Garden, Zurich; the Director of the
Botanic Garden, Upsala; the Director of the Botanic Garden,
Dahlem (Berlin); and the Director of the New York Botanic
Garden.
Material has been lent for determination and critical study
as follows :—58 specimens of Acacia to Director, Botanic Gardens,
Sydney, N.S.W.; 5 Asiatic specimens of Sedum to Mr. R. Lloyd
Praeger, National Museum, Dublin; 1 slide of Diatoms to Mr.
N. KE. Brown, Kew; 5 specimens of Acioa, and 10 specimens of
Alchemilla to the Director, Jardin Botanique de |’ Etat, Brussels ;
5 specimens of Baphia from Tropical Africa to Mr. L. V. Lester-
Garland; 12 specimens of Canavalia to Mr. S. T. Dunn, Royal
Gardens, Kew; 50 specimens of Desmodium from Central America
to Dr. A. K. Schindler, Minden, Westf. ; 4 specimens of Tropical
African Ebenacee to Mr. W. P. Hiern, F.R.S., Barnstaple.
IIl.—Departmental Library.
1. Arrangement, Cataloguing, and Pressmarking.—The regis-
tering, stamping, and cataloguing of additions to the library has
been carried out. A rearrangement in several of the sections has
been effected; by this means the space rendered available by the
transfer to the New Herbarium of many of the books dealing with
European botany has been utilised. A set of shelves has been
added to accommodate the larger works of reference. Depart-
mental assistance in connection with the Official Catalogue of
the Library has been continued. A collection of water-colour
drawings of Orchids by J. N. Fitch has been arranged and
labelled.
DEPARTMENT OF
BOTANY. 165
2. Accesstons.—31 volumes and 19 pamphlets were acquired
by donation and 95 volumes and 3 pamphlets by purchase; in
all 126 volumes and 22 pamphlets.
These numbers include 29
volumes of periodicals in parts presented, and 75 volumes of
periodicals in parts purchased.
principal donors :—
Oakes Ames, Esq., Botanical
Gardens, Harvard Univer-
subyy -U S.A.
Kolonial Instituut, Amsterdam
Prof. L. H. Bailey
R. T. Baker, Esq.
Royal Botanical Society, Bel-
glum
Paul Bertrand
Prof. J. W. Bews
James Britten, Esq.
Director, Jardin Botanique de
lV Etat, Brussels
Director, Institut Leo Errera,
University of Brussels
Director, Dept. van Landouw
imverheid en Handel, Buiten-
zor
Director, Royal Botanic Gar-
dens, Calcutta
Government of Chosen, Corea
Director, Botanical Library,
University of Copenhagen
Director, Cornell Agricultural
Experimental Station
Director, Botanical School,
Trinity College, Dublin
Regius Keeper, Royal Botani-
cal Gardens, Edinburgh
Wilham Faweett, Esq.
Miss L. 8S. Gibbs
Director, Gray Herbarium,
Cambridge, Mass., U.S.A.
Dame Helen Gwynne-Vaughan
Dr. Bunzo Hayata
Miss Ida M. Hayward
Mrs. G. J. Hindle
Director, Experimental Station,
H.S.P.A., Honolulu
Royal Horticultural Society
Director, Royal Botanic Gar-
dens, Kew
Secretary, Kew Guild
The following is a lst of the
Director, Herbarium,
Leiden
Linnean Society, London
Miss G. Lister
G. C. Lloyd, Esq.
Jiz) gk. Maiden, Kisg, > 1,S.0.,
BR RaSe
Editor, Philippine Agricul-
tural Review, Manila
Secretary, Advisory Council of
Science and Industry, Mel-
bourne
Prof. Dr. Mereschkovsky
Director, Missouri Botanic Gar-
den, St. Louis
Spencer le M. Moore, Esq.
Nederlandsche Botanische
Vereeniging
Director, Royal Botanic Gar-
dens, Peradeniya
Director, Agricultural Research
Institute, Pusa
Dr. A. B. Rendle, F.R.s.
H. N. Ridley, Esq., c.M.a.,
F.R.S.
Lord Rothschild, F.R.S.
Director, Botanic Gardens,
Singapore
Harald Smith, Esq
Director, Dept. of Agriculture,
Union of South Africa
Botanical Institute, Tokyo
Tokyo Botanical Society
Director, Carnegie Institute,
Washington
Director, U.S. National Mu-
seum, Washington
Secretary, Watson
Exchange Club
C. T. White, Esq.
Osborn Botanical Laboratory,
Yale University
Director, Botanic Garden and
Museum, Zurich
Rijks
Botanical
The donations also include 405 water-colour drawings of
Orchids, originals of plates in Williams’ Orchid Album, by J. N.
166 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF TILE BRITISH MUSEUM.
Fitch, presented by the Right Hon. Lord Rothschild. The
following have been acquired by purchase:—14 drawings of
British Plants by Miss B. Corfe, and 9 drawings of Cactaces by
Miss H. Coley.
3. Binding.—66 volumes have been bound and 17 volumes
repaired.
LV.—Publications.
(1) Lssued by the Trustees.—Flora of Jamaica, Vol. IV. By
Dr. Rendle and Mr. W. Fawcett.
Instructions for Collectors: No. 10. Plants. Edition 5. By
Dr. Rendle.
(2) Issued by permission of the Trustees.—Some segregates of
Krodwm cicutarium L’Herit. By Mr. E. G. Baker and Mr.
C. E. Salmon. (Journal of Botany.)
Dewevrella congensis sp. nov.; and Tropical African Rubi-
acee, XIII. By Dr. H. F. Wernham. (Journal of Botany.)
Alabastra Diversa XXXII.,-XXXIII. By Mr. Spencer
Moore. (Journal of Botany.)
A new Species of Coupoul. By Mr. J. Ladbrook. (Journal
of Botany.)
(3) By Students of the Collections other than members of the
Staff.—On the occurrence of Diatoms on ‘the Skin of Whales. By
A. G. Bennett and E. W. Nelson. (Proc. Royal Society.)
Some Early Cape Botanists and Collectors. By Mr. J.
Britten. (Journal of the Linnean Society.)
Schrankia microphylla; and Eugenia lucida Banks. By
Mr. J. Britten. (Journal of Botany.)
Rhaphidostegium cespitosum Sw. and its allies. By Mr.
H. N. Dixon. (Journal of Botany.)
The phytogeography and flora of the Mountain Summit
plateaux of Tasmania (determinations by Mr. Ramsbottom and
Ais A. Lorrain Smith). By Miss L. S. Gibbs. (Journal of
cology.)
The Botany of the Maroccan Middle Atlas. By Mr. L. V.
Lester-Garland. (Journal of Botany.)
The Marine Alge of Guernsey. By Miss Lilian Lyle.
(Journal of Botany.)- |
New or Rare Microfungi. By Miss A. Lorrain Smith.
(Transactions of the British Mycological Society.)
Papers read at the Banks Celebration at the Linnean Society
on Junel7. Sir Joseph Banks as a Traveller, a Patron of Science
and a Botanist. By Dr. B. D. Jackson, Dr. Rendle, and Mr.
James Britten. (Proceedings of the Linnean Society, 1920.)
jpaell cquisitions.
(1) By Donation.
Additions to the British Herbarium have. been received from
the following donors:—Miss D. M. Chitty, a Small Collection of
DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY. 167
British Plants; Rev. E. F. Linton, M.A., Herbarium of British
Plants; Miss B. Reid, 32 Samples of Seeds of British Plants;
Rev. H. J. Riddelsdell, 22 Phanerogams (Hort Herbarium) ;
C. HE. Salmon, Esq., 20 Phanerogams and 1 Chara; Watson
Botanical Exchange Club (through J. E. Little, Esq.), 118
Phanerogams.
| The following donations have been made to the General
Herbarium ;—
Europe.
Dr. Grantham, 13 Cryptogams from Archangel; C. C. Lacaita,
Esq., 9 Phanerogams from Italy; Major C. Norman, a small
collection of Phanerogams from the Auvergne; Mrs. R. R. Pusey,
Plants from Iceland and elsewhere; Miss P. Tindall Lucas, 128
Phanerogams from Serbia; A. W. Trehewy, Esq., 34 Phanero-
gams from Norway.
Asia.
C. J. Brooks, Esq., 180 Phanerogams from Sarawak and
Sumatra; Mrs. Cheesman, 8 Phanerogams from the Dardanelles,
collected by Major Cheesman; J. H. Dinsmore, 17 Phanerogams
from Palestine, in return for determination; Miss L. S. Gibbs,
9 Phanerogams from Dutch N.W. Guinea; Miss Octavia Gosset,
67 Ferns from Simla; Mrs. E, K. N. Lane, 29 Phanerogams from
Central Provinces, India; Miss E. Lloyd Oswell, 205 Ferns from
Darjeeling, India; Royal Horticultural Society, 27 Samples of
Seeds from China; Sir Everard im Thurn, 48 Phanerogams from
Fiji; C. T. White, Esq., 26 Specimens of Scitaminee from
Papua.
Africa.
G. L. Bates, Esq., 424 Phanerogams from Bitye, Cameroons;
Capt. A. Buchanan, 37 Phanerogams and 1 Cryptogam from
French Soudan, 2 Phanerogams from Nigeria, Fruiting speci-
men of Adenium sp. from West Africa; J. Burtt-Davy, Esq., 283
Phanerogams and 9 Cryptogams from Belgian Congo, etc.; R. A.
Dummer, Esq.,.109 Phanerogams and 10 Cryptogams from
Uganda; F. Eyles, Esq., 96 Phanerogams from Rhodesia; Miss
EK. Godman, 161 Phanerogams and 11 Cryptogams from Somali-
land; Capt. Willoughby Lowe, 23 Phanerogams and 7 Ferns
from Nigeria; Capt. H. Lynes, R.N., 101 Phanerogams and 5
Ferns from Darfur; N. S. Pillans, Esq., 32 Lichens from Cape
Peninsula, South Africa; Dr. F. Rand, 195 Phanerogams from
the Transvaal; P. A. Talbot, Esq., 17 Phanerogams from
Nigeria; Dr. E. de Wildeman, 10 Species of Baphia and 9 photo-
graphs of Acioa from Tropical Africa.
Australasia.
Dr. R.S. Rogers, 21 Species of Orchids from West Australia ;
O. H. Sargent, 49 Phanerogams from West Australia.
168 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
America.
Spencer le M. Moore, Esq., 13 Cryptogams from Paraguay ;
Fred Perry, Esq., 2 Phanerogams from Vancouver, B.C.; Earle
E. Sherff, Esq., 4 species of North American Composite.
Oceanic Islands.
A. G. Bennett, Esq., 22 Phanerogams and 70 Cryptogams
from Falkland and South Shetland Islands; Sir W. Douglas
Young, 3 tubes of Fungi from Deception Island.
Cultivated Plants.
H. J. Elwes, Esq., F.R.S., 6 Phanerogams; J. Jolliffe, Esq.,
Fruiting specimen of Dracena; Hon. N. C, Rothschild, 27 speci-
mens of Crocus, 58 species and varieties of ris; Sir N. Yermoloff,
K.C.B., 11 Phanerogams from French Riviera.
General.
D. A. Bannerman, Esq., 6 Photographs illustrating the vege-
tation of Teneriffe; H. Bickham, Esq., Collection of European
and Foreign Phanerogams and 43 Cryptogams; W. H. Carter,
Kisq., Portion of decayed stem of Cypress, showing branching;
Cecil Carus-Wilson, Esq., Specimens of root of Oak with em-
bedded flints:; Miss Caroline C. Haynes, 2 species of Hepatice ;
Lord Pembroke, a very fine cross section, 6 ft. 6 in. diameter, of
Cedar of Lebanon; ‘Curator, Sheffield Museum, Collection of
British and North American Phanerogams; Mrs. G. S. West,
7 slides of Diatomacee. .
(2) By Purchase.
British Isles.
The Botanical Exchange Club, 39 Phanerogams.
Europe.
H. Dahlstedt, 29 specimens of Scandinavian Tararacum; F.
Petrak, 850 specimens of Fungi from Bohemia, Moravia, Bosnia
and Poland; A. Zahlbruckner, Lichenes rariores exsiccatz: Nos.
188-207. :
Through Dulau § Co.—Ascomycetes by Rehm, Fasc. 56, 57;
Mycotheca Germanica, 200 specimens, by Sydow.
Lhrough T. O. Weigel.—100 specimens of European Salix by
Toepfier. : ‘
Asia. |
Arnold Arboretum, U.S.A., 1,290 specimens of Chinese Plants
by Wilson.
America.
EK. Bartholomew, 600 specimens Fungi Columbiani, and 1,200
specimens North American Uredinales.
DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY. 169
Australasia.
W. A. Weymouth, 562 Tasmanian Cryptogams.
General.
A. Kneucker, 150 specimens of Grasses; J. R. Martindale,
5,313 British and European Lichens.
(3) By Exchange of Duplicates.
Curator, Botanical Museum, Christiania, Norway, 335 Euro-
pean Plants, including 51 Ferns; Miss A. Eastwood, Academy of
Science, San Francisco, California, 312 specimens from Cali-
fornia and Colorado, and 200 specimens (including 27 Vascular
Cryptogams) from Galapagos Islands; the Director, Goéldi
useum, Para, Brazil, 301 Brazilian Plants; Director, Botanic
Garden, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., U.S.A., 104
Malayan Orchids; F. C. Hoehne, Instituto de Butantan, San
Paulo, Brazil, 72 Brazilian plants; Director, Royal Botanic
Gardens, Kew, 25 species of West Indian Grasses, 299 Malayan
Plants, 46 Macedonian Plants, and 1 Fern from Malacca; Mr.
L. V. Lester-Garland, 11 Critical species of Bavarian Plants, and.
18 Indian Plants; Dr. Merrill, Bureau of Science, Manilla,
Philippine Islands, 3,113 Philippine plants (including 159 Cryp-
togams), and 339 plants from Amboina; Chief, Division of
Botany, Pretoria, South Africa, 34 South African species of
Aloe, and 26 Cape Marine Algae; Director, Botanic Gardens,
Sydney, Australia, 24 Australian plants; Curator, Department
of Agriculture, Washington, U.S.A., 300 specimens of North
American Grasses; Dr, A. Zahlbruckner, Hofmuseum, Vienna,
360 Cryptogams; Director, Botanisches Museum, Zurich, 38
Tropical African Leguminose.
VI.—Students and Visitors.
The number of visits to the Department for consultation and
research was 3,443.
VII.—Demonstrations.
Demonstrations on the collections have been given to students
from the Birkbeck College, the Lambeth Natural History Society,
and others.
A. B. Rendle.
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